Lessons from SaaS entrepreneurs

In 2013, I co-founded Heap, a product analytics company that I helped grow to over 200 people and $X0,000,000 in ARR before I left in 2020. In 2021... (2021)

Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' ... (2023)

Indie Hackers, 2017: "Five years ago I built and launched the first version of a SaaS app on a single flight from San Francisco to Buenos Aires. Sl... (2017)

Indie Hackers, 2017: “Startups are scary. Exciting, sure. But scary nonetheless. Ask any founder who’s been up all night, obsessing over bugs, com... (2017)

How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service Product (2018)

Endcrawl is a SaaS app for making end credits. You know — all those names and logos that scroll by at the end of the movie. More than 1,000 film p... (2018)

There are few things more dangerous to startups than Big Deals. Founders lie to themselves by believing that catching a single Big Deal will automa... (2018)

It's time to redefine "Unicorn".  It's not about a billion+ valuation, as crazy high as that seemed 5 years ago. Now it's about $1b in ARR. The above (2019)

Hello, it’s Takuya here. This is a story about my experience on my solo product called Inkdrop — a Markdown note-taking app with built-in cloud syn... (2018)

Ok this isn't the most profound SaaS post of all time, but now that there are 100+ public SaaS companies and unicorns, we can finally answer a ques... (2019)

A week ago rumors were flying that Adobe would be buying Marketo, and lo and behold it announced today that it was acquiring the marketing automati... (2018)

Peter Reinhardt is cofounder and CEO of Segment.  Segment helps companies capture data from every customer touchpoint and send it to the tools wher... (2018)