On the Perils of Taking Advice from Successful Business People
One of the hardest things about running startups is you’re never sure who to listen to. Your board members own big stakes in the company, but that doesn’t automatically align them with you. Your late-stage investors want low multiples on big numbers. Your early-stage investors want big multiples on small numbers. And they have their […]
Fly Less, Write More: the future of Developer Relations, and maybe, well, everything else
I have been self isolating since early March. For the first week and a half the kids were still at school, which was actually more stressful than having them at home. But we’ve all been doing the Stay at Home thing for a few weeks now. What a great time for my eldest to prove […]
Should we be more targeted and holistic in tackling the Corona virus pandemic ?
I have been staying at home for the past week or so since I returned from India . All my global team is working from home too and we are all getting used to the idea of 100% work from home as the new normal . Earlier today, I heard from my mom about the […]
Kellblog Ten Predictions for 2015
As we move into the fourth week of January, I figured it was “now or never” in terms of getting a set of predictions out for 2015. Before jumping into that, let’s take a quick review of how I did with my 2014 predictions and do some self-grading. 2014 to be a good year in Silicon […]
The Second-Timers: Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight – “Never Stop Hiring Reps”
One of the most popular posts we did on SaaStr in the past 12 months was “What The Second Time SaaS CEOs Are All Doing.” What folks who are on their second successful SaaS company are doing better this time. It is a fascinating topic. Because while product-market fit isn’t any easier the second, third, […]
Part 4 of “Predictable Revenue Guide to Tripling Your Sales” with Aaron Ross+SaaStr is Out Today
It’s getting there. The fourth and final part of the 1.0 version of the “Predictable Revenue Guide to Tripling Your Sales”, the SaaStr + Aaron Ross + SaaStr sequel to the original Predictable Revenue, is out today. You can download it
Make a Plan That You Can Beat
Seven words that changed the world: “make a plan that you can beat.” This pithy piece of wisdom was first passed onto me by the sage of Sequoia Capital, Mike Moritz, on the first day of my six-year journey at MarkLogic, during which time we grew the company from effectively zero to an $80M run-rate. Thanks […]
Why You’ll Need Just about $3,000,000 to Build Your First Real Sales & Marketing Team
Every week, I meet with several entrepreneurs, often bootstrapped or close to it, who fit the following sort of model: Gotten to Initial Traction (~$1.5m ARR), or getting close to it, or a bit beyond; and With nice growth (>=100% YoY); and Company isn’t really burning much cash because The CEO basically is the VP […]
Salesforce and the New Bucket of Bits. Phoenix, Ashes.
When Salesforce.com and Oracle announced a renewal of their vows last year I was kind of surprised. Why would Salesforce deepen its reliance on the Oracle database at a time when others across the industry were lessening their reliance on that venerable and not inexpensive platform. To be fair Oracle database has excellent high availability […]
Come to the SaaStr Sessions at Dreamforce — And Win a Free Ticket to the SaaStr Annual in February (And Other Good Stuff)
We’ve got 2 great SaaStr sessions at Dreamforce on Wednesday, October 15 at 1pm and 3pm. Each has about 15 seats left so add them to your Dreamforce event planner now! To make it (even more) fun, we’ll give away 2 free tickets to the SaaStr Annual on Feb 5, 2015 in San Francisco (details […]
