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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you’ve read SaaStr or have been around for the last decade, you might be familiar with some of the repeated GTM mistakes founders tend to make, but the world of hiring, people, scaling, and workplace expectations are significantly different today than they were before March 2020. Efficiency matters, but profitability doesn’t on its own.

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4 Takeaways For Founders From Battery Ventures’ “State of the OpenCloud”

SaaStr

With too many examples from SaaStr Annual 2021 to call out specifically, here are 2 “Cloud talks plus decks” that I can imagine the Self-Taught Founder relying upon: David Sacks On SaaS Org Charts. This 20-20-20 data is amazingly useful to that Self-Taught Founder building out their GTM operating model.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. GTM Mistake #3: Stepping Out Of Sales Founders often want to step out of sales after hiring a GTM team.

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What to Do If You’re An NRR Zombie

SaaStr

It’s a SaaS startup that basically fell out of product-market fit after the 2021 boom … but has enough revenue and high enough NRR to keep going. They raised prices. It took remaking the management team, changing the GTM, and rebooting the product dramatically. It’s the “NRR Zombie”. What’s that? But they did it.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

SaaStr

VC all seemed like a game in the boom times of 2021 and late 2020. 7 Secrets to a Successful SMB GTM Strategy with PayFit and Accel. SaaS Pricing Strategies that Work: How to Design an Optimal Pricing Model with FastSpring VP Product. It turns out, most founders don’t do a 50/50 split. A 2:1 split is most common.

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Price’s Law and It’s Impact on Hiring and Retaining Talent

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. A phenomenon called Price’s Law – let’s get into it. is one of the fastest-growing companies in SaaS, with 9x ARR growth since 2021 and currently valued at $1.6

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AMA: Hot Takes on SaaS Metrics with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Sales is much harder than in 2021. 2021 made no sense in terms of budgeting. The average public company today has over $300k of revenue per employee; in 2021, it was just over $100k. In 2021, many sales folks were marginally efficient. Buyers are veterans, so if your app is like Stripe, price it like Stripe.

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