Written by Jason Lemkin

100 Questions with actionable solutions for real-life startup problems

Free advice you can apply to all functions in your startup

You asked. We listened. 

5 years and 45 million Quora views later, we combined our most popular content into organized sections for you to use in your startup. 

5 Different Sections. 100 Questions. 100 Answers with Actionable Solutions. 

Lessons & advice that you should know about being a CEO and the pros and cons that come along the way.

Maybe you're at your first $50K ARR. Now to scale to your next wave of growth with actionable strategies.

It's hard, but it doesn't have to be. Learn from founders who have raised multimillion rounds.

Hiring that VP of Sales role you've been meaning to hire and comping sales reps. 

The majority of the role as a CEO is recruiting and managing your team. So it's time to get better at it. 

All functions of your SaaS startup, covered. 

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Jason Lemkin is a 4x SaaS Startup Founder & the current CEO at SaaStr. 

He most recently co-founded EchoSign, which was later acquired by Adobe, grew total business from $0 to $50,000,000 in ARR. He then served as Vice President, Web Services at Adobe, where he oversaw the growth of EchoSign and Adobe Document Services to $50,000,000 in ARR in 2012 and $100,000,000+ ARR in 2013.

He is also a hyper-founder centric VC with $90m to invest in the top SaaS founders, see SaaStrFund.com. He’s been the first or very early investor in many leading enterprise/SaaS start-ups, including Algolia, Automile, Talkdesk, Parklet, Greenhouse, Mixmax, Pipedrive, Rainforest QA, Logikcull, SalesLoft, Teamable, Gorgias, Mapistry, and more.

Prior to EchoSign and Adobe, he co-founded one of the only successes in nanotechnology, NanoGram Devices, which was acquired for $50m just 13 months after founding. The technology, built into implantable power cells, has gone on to help extend the lives of thousands.

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