“We heard the same concern over and over again: a panic over giving up control.” is how @Benioff described initial reactions to SaaS replacing on-premise, until the value of SaaS won out. It'll be the same story with Smart Contracts, as their ability to deliver value improves
Interesting thread from the always insightful @bgurley twitter.com/bgurley/status…
Knowing what I know now ...if I wanted to make a lot of money and was willing to put in 15-20 years of hard work I'd tell my younger self to start an enterprise SaaS co and work tirelessly to get positive net revenue retention w/ little VC. Enterprise SaaS > every other biz
"Despite telling ourselves and the world that software roadmaps are a bad idea for well over a decade, we still made the mistake with HEY and custom domains. I'm sympathetic to why we did that, but a mistake it was." world.hey.com/dhh/don-t-prom…
I mean, the category name seems way off.... but I got onboarded onto @vimcal yesterday and can confirm it is absolutely incredible. Night and day difference from any cal app I’ve used, very obviously worth the price. Maybe it’s “Craftsman-SaaS” Tools that take users seriously twitter.com/hvpandya/statu…
Bootstrapping twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
Go-to-market questions every SaaS founder should ask. By @mikemarg_ @craft_ventures. earlygtm.substack.com
1/ This was a very interesting case study so it deserves its own little tweetstorm. Q: What is the proper way to analyze a SaaS company that has revenue from both Individual and Team plans? Founders: I'm about to reveal a trade secret of Craft. Other VCs: pease stop reading. twitter.com/nbt/status/133…
Pure gold for SaaS founders 👉 The SaaS Board Meeting by @DavidSacks sacks.substack.com/p/the-saas-boa…
Thanks again for having me @dkhare and for providing a great summary of my SaaS learnings here. twitter.com/dkhare/status/…
#SaaS isn't just eating the world anymore. It's now devouring the world. Thanks to changing distribution models that started with @DavidSacks and @Yammer, we can see in @Cledara data that younger SaaS startups are growing faster than their predecessors. cledara.com/blog/the-evolu…
This instantly became one of my favorite sentences ever from a TinySeed founder update (quoted with permission): "To get around this [issue], I've forked the Chromium codebase..." This is why I love what I do. I so admire the ingenuity of founders.
Most of the time "audience first" advice comes from someone who is in the info product space. There are a few obvious exceptions of audience-first SaaS. MeetEdgar, Leadpages, and WebinarNinja come to mind. All 3 founded by info product folks.
"Build an audience first" is great advice when selling info products. Much less so when launching a SaaS. An audience is always a leg up. But if you don't have one today, I seriously question investing the effort of building one if you're going after SaaS.