There can be some really exciting days when you’re building a SaaS company, but the large majority are a slog. Just one foot in front of the other, slowly trudging your way up the hill in the muck. The hockey-stick growth you’ve envisioned feels laughably far away. Amazingly, you are growing every month, but it’s just…so…tedious. This, my friends, is the long, slow SaaS ramp of death. It’s perfectly normal and par for the course for the large majority of SaaS companies.
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Everyone suddenly wants to tell you SaaS is dead. The Klarna-replaced-Salesforce story spread because it fit the mood, whatever the exact boundary between “…
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like…
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How I’ve Attracted The First 500 Paid Users For My SaaS That Costs $5/mo
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Habitat's road to release: 07 bridging traditional SaaS apps - building [at] habitat
building bridges to the (organizational) atmosphere
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Discover how negative churn drives exponential SaaS growth: analysis shows 5% negative churn can double revenue vs standard 5% churn rates in startups.
When to Fold: The Cost of Failing Slow in a Startup
Failing Slow: Why One Founder Regretted Keeping His Startup Alive
How we de-risked our SaaS pricing strategy
The pain point that every single B2B company shared is pricing. Learn from our own experience, at Front, on how we de-risked our pricing strategy.
What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026
In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…
ServiceNow Stock Tumbles 50% in a Year: Good Earnings Don't Stop 'Death of SaaS' | Salesforce Ben
ServiceNow's stock has experienced an 11% decline on the day of their Q4 announcements and a 50% decline over the past year.
12 Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups | Andreessen Horowitz
#1 “If everyone loves your idea, I might be worried that it’s not forward thinking enough.” Anyone thinking about starting a business should be searching for mispriced opportunities. While markets are mostly efficient in eliminating opportunities for extraordinary profit, there are always areas of an economy in which there are significant uncertainty. These areas are...
How we Bootstrapped our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability - Canny Blog
It’s been seven months since we launched our SaaS startup and we’re ramen profitable. Canny makes enough to pay for its own expenses and our personal living expenses. This is far less money than we made working at Facebook, but a huge milestone for our bootstrapped startup.
A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups
*New* A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups Updated Jan 2023 Introduction In the early stages of most B2B SaaS startups life, it is often the CEO or Founder who acts as the initial Head of …
