Software-as-a-Service news & blogs
SaaStr
- Why You Might Not Actually Enjoy Being a VC
- How to Succeed as a First-Time VP of Sales. Or Just a First-Time VP in General.
- SaaStr Podcast #400 with Splash CEO Ben Hindman and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin: “The Future of Digital Events”
- When Should You Add a Second Product?
- We are 14 days away from SaaStr Scale – meet our sponsors!
- What To Look For — And Look Out For — In a Co-Founder
- Should I Hire a Sales Rep First, Or a Sales Manager?
- How to Ensure Your First 2 Sales Reps Actually Work Out
- Four Steps to Scaling to $250M from Stack Overflow
- What’s a Good Net Retention Rate in SaaS?
The SaaS Playbook
- 📕 SaaS Black Friday deals; How Typeform built an A+ brand, Why you shouldn’t “just…
- 📕 The rise of the pod people; Self-caring your way to effective leadership; Simplifying revenu…
- 📕 Getting inside your customer’s mind; Avoid feast or famine sales months; Getting real …
- 📕 Finding your North Star Metric; Why Product-market fit is broken; Restoring the soul of busi…
- 📕 Marketing to two personas; How to invest in your team; Stealing like an artist... → A rece…
- 📕 The role of social scientists in retention, Keywords for conversion, Ditching the Facebook p…
- 📕 How to value “customer delight”, nailing customer first impressions, design thin…
- 📕Data tracking dictionary template; Where SWOT falls short; the framework for a successful lau…
- 📕 Brand voices that reduce churn, the right marketing hires by stage, a new framework fo…
- 📕 Snowflake’s secret sauce, Pricing experiments gone wrong, Why simple ideas stick……
SaaStock
- Real SaaS Revolutionaries: Mike Robinson and Veronika Vebere
- The Blueprint to building a successful SaaS company: Insights from Godard Abel & Jacco Van Der Kooij
- Brand-building, category creation and AMA with Anthony Kennada, CMO, Front
- Real SaaS Revolutionaries: Benjamin Dell
- Moving your company upmarket with LB Harvey, Front
- Getting started with growth marketing in the Asia-Pacific region
- ‘And the winner is…’ The SaaStock EMEA Startup Pitch Competition 2020
- What makes a great startup pitch: Fundraising FAQs with Jennifer Vancini
- How to prepare your SaaS company for global expansion
- Building your SaaS company’s growth function with Elena Verna
SaaS Metrics
- 5 Features You Want on Your Business Platform’s Dashboard • saasmetrics.co
- Sports Betting Odds Explained (with Examples) • saasmetrics.co
- 10 Vital Things for Software Project Management • saasmetrics.co
- How Technology Will Change the Future of Healthcare Industry • saasmetrics.co
- So, Should I Choose Air Suspension or Springrates Coilovers? • saasmetrics.co
- What Are The Benefits of CBD For Dogs? • saasmetrics.co
- Customer Churn: How to Calculate & Reduce It • baremetrics.com
- Unique and Exceptional Furniture Ideas for Your Apartment in Nashville • saasmetrics.co
- 9 MRR Hacks to Increase Your Monthly Recurring Revenue • www.cobloom.com
- The importance of being ‘listed’ as part of your digital marketing strategy • saasmetrics.co
SaaS Finance
- A Complete Guide to Analyzing and Reducing Customer Churn • www.chargebee.com
- A Simplified Method for Forecasting MRR Growth • blog.chartmogul.com
- The Science Behind Pivoting your Business Model • www.chargebee.com
- The Secret to Scaling your SaaS Product with Product Led Growth • www.chargebee.com
- Making Customer Feedback Your Next Big Superpower • blog.chartmogul.com
- Chargebee Fall 2020 Product Updates: Accelerate Your Time to Market • www.chargebee.com
- SaaS Growth Rate: How to Track Your Growth in 2020 • blog.chartmogul.com
- How to Achieve more by doing less by Brian Kardon • www.chargebee.com
- What to Expect when you Scale: Lessons from Mark Roberge • www.chargebee.com
- Chargebee + RevLock = Enterprise-ready Revenue Recognition Capabilities • www.chargebee.com
Customer Success
- 7 Ineffective Retention Tactics [+What to Do Instead] • blog.hubspot.com
- What is Customer 360 and How Does it Affect Customer Success? • blog.totango.com
- 15 Best Social Listening Tools to Monitor Mentions of Your Brand • blog.hubspot.com
- 6 Ways To Get Customer Success More Clout (and a Seat at the Table) – Part 1 • churnzero.net
- 19 Excellent Customer Satisfaction Survey Examples [+ Templates] • blog.hubspot.com
- The Ultimate Guide to Responding to Positive and Negative Google Reviews [+ Examples] • blog.hubspot.com
- 11 Best Knowledge Management Software • blog.hubspot.com
- 7 Tips for Optimizing Your Transportation Management System • blog.hubspot.com
- Lessons from GitLab: Implementing Customer Success Operations At Scale • www.gainsight.com
- 10 Reasons To Be Thankful for Gainsight PX • www.gainsight.com
SaaS on Medium
- The Ridget Spinner: Fall Recap
- Interview with Thankbox Founder, Valentin Hinov
- Daily Dose: Lead Qualification Strategy — Sales Accelerator #3
- What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2020?
- Frontend journey of Unitz
- Lessons learned from side projects
- Reimagining Food Security In Singapore: The History and Role of Food Forests
- Board Management Software design
- Black Friday and Cyber Monday Software Deals 2020: The Best and Hottest Sales
- Datadog(DDOG) 2020/Q3 財報
SaaS news articles
- What Must Enterprises Learn to Increase ROI from the Cloud? • www.informationweek.com
- 10 Ways to Transition Traditional IT Talent to Cloud Talent • www.informationweek.com
- Apple Discusses Going Cloud Native and the Growing Pains • www.informationweek.com
- How to Create High-Impact Development Teams • www.informationweek.com
- Where Cloud Spending Might Grow in 2021 and Post-Pandemic • www.informationweek.com
- Time to Rethink Your Enterprise Software Strategy? • www.informationweek.com
- What enterprise CISOs need to know about AI and cybersecurity • venturebeat.com
- Looking at the Cloud in 2021: Growth and Changes • www.informationweek.com
- Paddle raises $68 million to help SaaS companies sell software globally • venturebeat.com
- 4 mistakes companies make with SaaS cost estimating • www.cio.com
SaaS blog posts
- The Rewards and Perils of Being Your Own Customer • thebootstrappedfounder.com
- How a Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape • www.tomtunguz.com
- When Privacy and Customer Value Clash • thebootstrappedfounder.com
- Link Swaps: My favorite SaaS SEO Strategy (Guide inside) • www.saasgrowthhacker.com
- How I Approach Pricing for a Brand New SaaS • thebootstrappedfounder.com
- Sunk Cost Fallacy Engineering • thebootstrappedfounder.com
- Customer Lock-In and “Insurance Features” • thebootstrappedfounder.com
- How Many Technologies Can a Company Adopt at Once? • www.tomtunguz.com
- Limiting Beliefs • thebootstrappedfounder.com
- The multiplier • justinjackson.ca
SaaS podcasts
Indie Hackers Podcast
- #182 – Selling Shovels During the Podcasting Gold Rush with Mubashar Iqbal
- #181 – Deciding to Go Big with David Hsu of Retool
- #180 – From $0 to $5M Without Writing Any Code with Tara Reed of Apps Without Code
- #179 – Making $280k in Four Weeks with Traf
- #178 – Trends and Opportunities for Building a SaaS in 2020 with Rob Walling of TinySeed
- Run With It: Inside the Business with Lindsay Gabbard and Alessandro Pepe
- #177 – Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach to Indie Hacking with Daniel Vassallo
- #176 – The Journey to Build a Large, Profitable Business with Aleem Mawani of Streak
- Indie Bites: How VEED grew to $1.7m ARR in less than 2 years with Sabba Keynejad of Veed.io
- #175 – Using A.I. to Become a Superpowered Indie Hacker with Przemek Chojecki of Contentyze
SaaSClub.io Podcast
- 271: SaaS Sales Lessons from a First Time Founder - with Sonny Patel
- 270: How to Build a SaaS Brand Without Doing 'Branding' - with Paul Campillo
- 269: Zomentum: SaaS Customer Development and No-Code Prototypes - with Shruti Ghatge
- 268: Chili Piper: How to Pre-Sell and Bootstrap a SaaS to Profitability - with Nicholas Vandenberghe
- 267: A Guide to SaaS Customer Success: Reduce Churn & Grow Revenue - with Nick Mehta
- 266: PatSnap: Surviving Tough Times as a First-Time SaaS Founder - with Jeffrey Tiong
- 265: Whooshkaa: Launch & Differentiate Your SaaS in a Crowded Market - with Rob Loewenthal
- 264: Lessons on Perseverance from a SaaS Startup That Almost Failed - with Panos Siozos
- 263: SaaS Product-Led Growth and the New Customer Journey - with Blake Bartlett
- 262: Vajro: The Importance of SaaS Founder-Market Fit - with Baskar Agneeswaran
The SaaS Revolution Show
- The Blueprint to building a successful SaaS company: Insights from Godard Abel & Jacco Van Der Kooij
- Moving your SaaS company Up Market with LB Harvey, Front
- What makes a great startup pitch: Fundraising FAQs with Jennifer Vancini, Mighty Capital
- Building your SaaS company's growth function with Elena Verna
- Marketing in times of crisis with Meagen Eisenberg
- Building a 10x Company Culture with Darren Chait, Hugo
- What does the future hold for the subscription economy? with Tien Tzuo, Zuora
- How to rapidly scale growth with Sean Ellis
- Seed funding: past, present and future with Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp
- Does your marketing team need to re-think collaboration? with Xenia Muntean, Planable
Inside Intercom Podcast
- S.H.O.P. Part 4: Present
- S.H.O.P. Part 3: Online
- S.H.O.P. Part 2: Habits
- S.H.O.P. Part 1: Store
- Reflecting on the Intercom journey - Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation
- Nate Brown on why proactive CX is the next competitive battleground
- Bob Moesta on unleashing your sales superpower
- Bought-in and paid for: how Atlassian bridge the gap from freemium to enterprise sales
- Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap
- Scale with Shane Murphy-Reuter and Brian Halligan at INBOUND
Notion - The Pain of Scale
- P506 - Good to Great Product Marketing: The Four Essentials That Get You There, with Martina Lauchengc…
- P505 - Scaling Enterprise Software Startups, A Story of 1s and 3s, with Andy Leaver, Operating Partner…
- P504 - The Practiced Art of Founder Communication, with Renn Vara, Co-Founder, SNP Communications
- P503 - Five things SaaS Founders should look for when hiring a game changer, with Hiroki Takeuchi, Fou…
- P502 - Build smart and healthy teams and grow twice as fast, with Alan Millard, Principal Consultant a…
- P501 - Ikigai, the path to purpose in life and startups, with Hector Garcia
- R09 - Our product and narrative are resonating more than ever, with Sam Fromson, Co-Founder & COO @ yulife
- R08 - Entrepreneurship is about dealing with change, with Nik Whitfield, Founder & CEO @ Panaseer
- R07 - Getting a grip on the pain, with Charlie Osmond, Co-Founder & Chief Tease at Triptease
- R06 - Building a talent platform for the next generation, with Marius Luther, Founder and CEO of HeyJobs
Getting To Ramen
- Should you start multiple businesses? (I built something new)
- What not to work on next (advice from successful founders)
- You should be collecting customer feedback
- What is "normal" now?
- Getting COVID-19, un-productivity hacks, and market differentiators
- Head of Product at Userfeed.io
- Rob Walling of MicroConf & TinySeed on his Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping
- The big Stripe dispute: a cautionary tale
- Repositioning a platform-reliant product
14 Minutes of SaaS
- E122 – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann – 3 of 3 – Market beats Team beats Product
- E121 – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann – 2 of 3 – Embracing Negative Reviews
- E120 – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Holten Muhlmann – 1 of 3 – From the Basement
- E119 – Braze CEO CoFounder Bill Magnuson – 2 of 2 – Mobile is Personal
- E118 – Braze CEO CoFounder Bill Magnuson – 1 of 2 – Reading the Tea Leaves