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New!! What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg: SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin and SaaStr Fan Fave Dave Kellogg share their insights on what's coming up in SaaS in 2025. Including IPO markets, private equity interest in SaaS businesses, customer success strategies, and the impact of AI on B2B companies. The post What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg appeared first on SaaStr.

Welcome to Georgian which has joined Funden’s VC network 💰 Below are some highlights of Georgian’s investment thesis: - Growth - $20 - 50M check-size - Data and Analytics, Saas, Developer Tools Notable investments include Shopify, turnitin, and Oyster #vcfunding #venturecapital #vc #startupfunding #funden #growth

Thanks for a great SaaSiest yesterday! A lot of food for thought for my inner founder who geeks out about product/market-fit, growth hacking and metrics 🤓 Some of my personal highlights were: 🎢 SaaS Market Prediction from Oxx: After a couple of rollercoaster years there are signs of a stabilizing market. 2024-2026 will be a good time to sell or IPO SaaS companies. 🚀 Selling as a SaaS (we can all learn here - SaaS or not): Provide value before you (try to) sell: Find your customers’ “Aha! moment” (show them your core value - show, don’t tell), then loop in sales. 💡 Most used SaaS acquisition tactics? Free trials (used by 44.2%) (Freemium used by 18.7%) Thanks for a great presentation Leah Tharin (insightful presentation served with lots of humor) Ending off the evening in great company with Vendep Capital, Peak and a ton of good founders and VCs 🤩

S2 | E9 — Cameron Priest (Tradegecko, AMP, Neu Ventures) on scaling global SaaS businesses, the journey to a $100M acquisition by Intuit, what's next for AI + vertical SaaS Cameron Priest is the co-founder and former CEO of TradeGecko, an inventory and order management platform for e-commerce businesses that was acquired by Intuit in 2020 for ~$100M. He’s now building AMP, a company that acquires, rolls up, and scales Shopify apps - and is incubating new ventures at the intersection of AI and vertical SaaS. In this week's episode, we discuss: • Cam’s journey from an NZ kiwifruit orchard to founding Trade Gecko, how they landed in Singapore. • Scaling a B2B product, including specific growth tools, frameworks they used along the way - so much of which is still relevant today, and eventual $80M+ acquisition by Intuit. • Building Amp and the strategy of acquiring "landing pad" businesses in the • Shopify ecosystem, how - as acquirers - they assess, value, and execute an acquisition … including the use of debt, how to think about revenue multiples, etc. • The vision for a platform allowing businesses to build customized niche software • Reflections on ambition, the importance of a supportive ecosystem, and the potential for fostering innovation in New Zealand Where to find Cam online: • https://lnkd.in/gE4Q4_dW • https://lnkd.in/gut-3sQg Listen on: • Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gSfciN73 • Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gZjVcrkf • Substack: https://lnkd.in/gnVtb4DV

On this week’s Scale Your SaaS, Chris Hicken dives into IPO strategies, key metrics, and founder decisions. Gain insights from his journey at ClickUp. Watch now to learn how to scale your startup to IPO!

Lots of people posting this eMarketer graph and here's why it's misleading. The capabilities of MMM has changed so much, I wonder if it's worth comparing what the startups are doing with SaaS approaches (us) vs what has been handled through the traditional providers. Key thing is look beyond MMM as a point solution. It's like comparing buying engines to buying cars.

We created a tool to help founders see where they need to be and how fast they need to be growing to stay on the path to IPO. Read more about the Mendoza Line for SaaS and input your own numbers to see where your startup falls. https://lnkd.in/gc6vwhEt

Y Combinator and their group partners provide so many insightful and educational videos for founders. This particular one from Tom Blomfield hit really close to home! (link in the comments below) TLDR; - Outline your value metrics - Make sure price metrics align with value metrics - Don't solely compete on Price, this will be a race to the bottom! - Don't shy away from raising prices (There were a lot more very critical points Tom explained during the video so please take a listen! A must for every startup founder) But, how do you do all this 🤔 🥁 This is where PriceOps comes in. We are building a tool for this entire pricing process, from value modelling to price implementation and feature/entitlement management. Focus on your improving your core value proposition and leverage PriceOps to build your Pricing and Packaging infrastructure! #saas #pricing #value -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up and get free trial here -> https://www.priceops.net/

E07: Will Your SaaS Get Acquired in 2024? Tiny Seed's Outlook Einar runs TinySeed, a SaaS accelerator which has invested in over 150 companies. He also operates MicroConf (leading bootstrapped SaaS community) and DiscretionCapital (M&A boutique for B2B SaaS between $1m - $10m ARR) In this episode we discuss: - How the SaaS market performed in 2023 and expectations for 2024 - Difference in SaaS valuations from PE vs strategic acquirers - Why TinySeed is an accelerator vs a venture studio - Growing and empowering your team - Why he created a SaaS M&A boutique Link to listen / watch: https://lnkd.in/gKnZDMzT

👋 Have you explored our latest report, Decoding the SaaS IPO Landscape: The Metrics that Matter and the Market Realities of 2023 and Beyond? We believe profitability is emerging as a crucial element to IPO success in 2024 and beyond. Read the research here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3UCidXm