Go-to-Market Product Marketer. Growth ops, market research, language-market fit, community-led growth, experimentation, innovation. B2B SaaS. Mentor on GrowthMentor. 550+ launches on Product Hunt. 🚀💕 Public speaker.
Alexander Theuma Congrats on BackFuture. (A SaaS startup fund from the future sounds intriguing! 🤔) I was JUST thinking about you a few days ago when I happened on an interview in which you'd mentioned me. It was such a pleasant surprise, it made my day. 🥹 (Quoted below.) Incredibly honored to have witnessed your journey from the beginning. Thank you for having invited me to work on Community Management at SaaStock. I learned SO much about helping run a hybrid, global community. What an undertaking. You've had such a major impact on SaaS! Looking forward to seeing what you're accomplishing next! 🔮✨ —————————— Excerpt on the history of SaaStock (formerly SaaScribe) "I thought what the world needed, was a blog for the SaaS community that was non-vendor, unbiased. Now I thought the idea was good. The challenge there was actually, 'What the fuck did I know about building and growing a SaaS business?' I’d never done it and also I wasn’t a great writer. So kind of almost set myself up to fail from a blog perspective, but actually, I quickly realized that, 'I think still, that the idea is good, yet my limitations are, I’m not an expert in building a SaaS company, and I’m not a great writer, so why don’t I get some experts and great writers to create the content?' And surprisingly, I think this is one of the great things in SaaS was that I reached out to people, like Lincoln Murphy, Eithiriel / Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré, and some others at the time. And I said, 'Look, here’s my idea. I’m running this SaaS blog. It’s a community driven SaaS blog. We’ll publish content to kind of help others that are growing SaaS businesses. Would you like to create some original content for the blog? I’m not going to pay you anything, but you would just do this out of the kindness of your heart, and for the love of community, and for the love of SaaS. And do you know what? I was sort of surprised by how many people were just like, 'Yeah. Sure. We’ll spend some, a few hours creating some content around customer success and give it to you, and put it on your blog', and that’s kind of how that started. And so actually that did work, and that took off. And so after a few months, we were having like, from like a standstill, from zero to 30000 online visitors a month, right?" — Founder Coffee (Episode 38) Host: Jeroen Corthout, Salesflare Guest: Alexander Theuma of SaaStock ——————————
Bringing the SaaS Ecosystem together at #SaaStockUSA, #SaaStockEurope, SaaStock Founder Membership and BackFuture Ventures
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as General Partner at BackFuture! The Move into Venture Capital has been calling for some time and I answered. I started Angel Investing in 2020 and having seen some of the best companies and founders go from Seed to Unicorn since 2016, understood there was a natural evolution and role to play that would complement what we have been building with SaaStock, helping SaaS companies connect and thrive through our community and events. I'm still operational at SaaStock as CEO. And on both sides, I have a great team at SaaStock that enables me to be a VC and I'm working with Kenneth Kashif Thomas on BackFuture that enables me to fulfil my duties to the SaaStock team and community to enable our vision. Thanks to the 48 LPs that have joined BackFuture to date and the 6 founders we've backed early on in our journey. More on the news in this article in Sifted https://lnkd.in/eiNBAQMQ #backfuture #saastock #saas #Venturecapital
Obligatory tags: #SaaS #B2BSaaS #B2CSaaS #Software #SaaStock #Community #CommunityLedGrowth #Startups #StartupNews #VentureCapital #VC #Tech #TechNews #Founders #Funding #Fundraising #Investors #Investment #Conference
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Alexander Theuma
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Thank you! You believed in the vision of SaaScribe and appreciate that.
Go-to-Market Product Marketer. Growth ops, market research, language-market fit, community-led growth, experimentation, innovation. B2B SaaS. Mentor on GrowthMentor. 550+ launches on Product Hunt. 🚀💕 Public speaker.
6moExcerpt referenced above from: https://blog.salesflare.com/interview-alex-theuma-saastock Jeroen Corthout, Salesflare