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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

market cap – up from $2.4B at IPO 1,432+ customers paying average of $1.75M annually 7,291 employees – from 650 at IPO 20%+ growth at massive scale, highly profitable Dominant market position : 80%+ market share in life sciences CRM This represents a 29.8% Peter’s top tips and learnings: 1. net income, 111.5%

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

Developer Experience Wins: When developers love using your product, word-of-mouth becomes your primary growth engine. Market Timing: Sometimes the best companies are built during inflection points (mobile subscriptions, AI boom, app store policy changes).

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Is Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy Tsunami-Proof?

ConversionXL

What is a sales-led go-to-market strategy? A sales-led go-to-market strategy is a growth engine that leverages a sales team to reach their target customers. Perfect for hyper-niche solutions. To put yourself on higher ground, the next best SaaS GtM is a marketing-led GtM. The marketing-led GtM strategy.

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What I Learned About Getting Revenue Forecasting Right, According to the Experts

Hubspot

It helps us decide whether to hire more engineers, expand into new markets, or even just how much coffee to order for the office (because, yes, even coffee consumption can be tied to revenue). Best for : Early-stage businesses entering competitive industries with access to market data. There isnt just one variable to rely on.

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Going Long: How Procore’s Founder and CEO Tooey Courtemanche Built a Billon-Dollar SaaS Empire Over 23 Years

SaaStr

” ‘Duck Diving’ the ’08 Global Financial Crisis Procore first started as a niche tool for high-net-worth residential builders in places like Aspen and Beverly Hills. It was an extinction-levelevent, which gave us this huge advantage of buying us more time to capture the market share.”

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder?

SaaStr

Why do I need 50 engineers to do what 3 engineers use to do? Why does my marketing team need 15 people? Once you cross 10% market share in your core niche / segment — start investing in the next one. More here: From Initial Traction to Initial Scale (~$10M in ARR): The Hardest Phase. A bit more here.

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How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Typically, you have to have some kind of sales team or sales engine to run before you can hire someone to run it. Venture capital is a niche niche niche asset class only designed for outliers. But it can be distracting for engineering, product, and GTM teams. Is that a good approach?