{"id":921,"date":"2015-02-08T04:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T09:56:10","slug":"saastr-annual-was-freaking-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/blog\/saastr-annual-was-freaking-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaStr Annual was freaking awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had such a good time at an event since Point Nine Capital&#8217;s awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/christophjanz.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/impressions-from-saas-nirvana-aka-as.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SaaS founders meetup<\/a> in San Francisco last October.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now convinced that the more specific an event is, the more valuable, engaging and ultimately more fun it is. At <a href=\"https:\/\/chartmogul.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChartMogul<\/a> we&#8217;re building SaaS metrics software for SaaS companies so there couldn&#8217;t be a more perfect event for us. \u00a0Just to highlight how relevant SaaStr was, we&#8217;ve only been selling ChartMogul for one month (therefore don&#8217;t have huge numbers of customers yet), yet\u00a0we bumped into\u00a0two of our paying customers and several of our very active trialers. Both the customers had flown from different parts of Europe to be there.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of folks I met were founders of SaaS companies, mostly beyond the seed stage. \u00a0I think we were one of the few earlier\/seed stage startups attending. \u00a0This is great\u00a0for us, surrounding yourself with companies who are where you&#8217;re aspiring to be in N months feels like a healthy practice (you improve fastest at sports when you play someone better\u00a0than you).<\/p>\n<p>The speakers were just about as good as it can get, making appearances were (among others) the Founder\/CEOs of BOX, Slack, Yammer and Zenefits (unbelievable).<\/p>\n<p>For people in\u00a0SaaS it was the only place to be on February 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Huge kudos to Jason M. 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