Q: What are your top tips for making life easier as an early-stage SaaS CEO? For a start-up CEO, here’s my list, force-ranked: 1.  Spend more of your time recruiting VPs and your senior team — and help in general.  At least — 20% of your tim...

If you are doing your job as CEO, you already have 1 or 2 investors that want to invest in the next round No matter when that round is — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) April 29, 2021 I am fairly confident there are at least 1,000 Substacks, 10...

The hardest investment rounds to price are seed rounds.   They’re incredibly situationally dependent: A founder that sold her last company for $400m or IPO’d might be able to raise a pre-seed round at $40m pre (not uncommon). A founder with litt...

The toughest hire of all is probably your VP of Sales. What trade-offs should you make? What are the right interview questions? When is too early to make the hire? When do you know that you’ve made a mis-hire? How far can you stretch to make the...

Everyone of us that are hyper-driven wants to grow our careers faster. We’re impatient. We want to learn, grow, manage more, earlier. Let me share my best hack. My uber-learning: Find the best boss you can; and Take on every initiative, project,...

Events.  Not digital events, which exploded since Covid.  But good old fashioned, in-a-convention-center events are coming back.  And boy, has it been a while.  Many events like Coachella, Dreamforce, SaaStr Annual and more haven’t been produced ...