{"id":2947,"date":"2019-10-15T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T09:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:15:40","slug":"mostly-it-will-be-your-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/mostly-it-will-be-your-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly it will be your fault!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is so much information available about building and growing your saas and I always wonder what it takes to clear our head and focus on what needs to be done. Building a SAAS business is very complex and difficult. When you get over the initial hump, what determines if you will go from $2M ARR to $20M? And then to $100M ?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This presentation by Jason Lemkin provides 10 pointers of things you are probably doing wrong or need to do right &#8211; which ever way you look at it. Includes mistakes like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not Hiring 2-3 Sales Reps. <br>Not Seeing The Pattern Early Enough &#8211; this is apparent by the time you hit $500K ARR. <br>Not (Intentionally) Going Upmarket Faster and  <br>Not Seeing the Power of a Mini-Brand  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a 57 min video and has a download link to the slide deck. A great investment of your Tuesday evening.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as you will realise it will mostly be your fault if you are not looking out for the signs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Whenever you are feeling like learning something new about Saas head to Jason Lemkin\u2019s Twitter feed.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this # 288 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100M ARR <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heavybit.com\/library\/video\/top-10-mistakes-getting-to-100m-arr\/\">https:\/\/www.heavybit.com\/library\/video\/top-10-mistakes-getting-to-100m-arr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonlk\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonlk<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much information available about building and growing your saas and I always wonder what it takes to clear our head and focus on what needs to be done. Building a SAAS business is very complex and difficult. When you get over the initial hump, what determines if you will go from $2M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/mostly-it-will-be-your-fault\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saas","category-what-i-learnt-today"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}