Event category: BetaKit Keynote Stage
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Building Better Products and Even Better Humans
Wherever you are in your journey as a founder or product leader, two pillars maintain the foundation of your product: people and (product) systems. Delivering on your promise to customers relies on your product systems running at the highest efficiency so that your people can focus on executing high-quality work, not complex systems or navigating management. Join me for tactical insights from over twenty years of learning in enhancing product systems and teams for my web agency, external clients, and startup teams.
Wherever you are in your journey as a founder or product leader, two pillars maintain the foundation of your product: people and (product) systems. Delivering on your promise to customers relies on your product systems running at the highest efficiency so that your people can focus on executing high-quality work, not complex systems or navigating management.
Building Beyond Success: Reinvention and the Entrepreneur’s Journey
This isn’t your typical “success formula” talk. Join a candid, reflective, and forward-thinking conversation about what it truly means to lead, fail fast, and reinvent — both as entrepreneurs and as people. Our panel of SaaS veterans will share raw career highs and lows, personal growth stories, and how they’ve embraced reinvention to reshape their businesses and themselves.
We’ll challenge founders to shed conventional definitions of success and lean into the messy, unpredictable journey of true entrepreneurship. Expect honest lessons on navigating failure, trying bold new ideas, and leading with heart in an ever-changing business landscape. This session sets a big-picture table for what it means to build not just companies — but lasting legacies — in SaaS today.
This isn’t your typical “success formula” talk. Join a candid, reflective, and forward-thinking conversation about what it truly means to lead, fail fast, and reinvent — both as entrepreneurs and as people.
Building SMB SaaS Unicorns: The strategies and Benchmarks Emerging from Best-in-Class SMB SaaS Companies
SMB is a quickly maturing category of SaaS, with new companies constantly emerging to solve new issues and address new verticals of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) customers. SMB SaaS companies are able to grow rapidly and capital efficiently by servicing specific niches or underserved segments of customers, and by discovering new distribution mechanics. The metrics that matter for these companies are slightly different than true enterprise SaaS, and represent a blend of best-of-breed consumer and enterprise metrics. SMB SaaS companies that reach unicorn status are usually able grow beyond their initial markets by moving to new verticals, going upmarket, or layering on additional services like embedded fintech (many do all three!). Come and learn the strategies and benchmarks they used to make it happen!
SMB is a quickly maturing category of SaaS, with new companies constantly emerging to solve new issues and address new verticals of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) customers. SMB SaaS companies are able to grow rapidly and capital efficiently by servicing specific niches or underserved segments of customers, and by discovering new distribution mechanics. The metrics that matter for these companies are slightly different than true enterprise SaaS, and represent a blend of best-of-breed consumer and enterprise metrics. SMB SaaS companies that reach unicorn status are usually able grow beyond their initial markets by moving to new verticals, going upmarket, or layering on additional services like embedded fintech (many do all three!). Come and learn the strategies and benchmarks they used to make it happen!
Closing Remarks Day 1
We’re recapping the day and sharing with you the exciting networking opportunties available in the evening. And we’re even drawing a few prizes! Make sure you’re in the audiece to win a TechExit West Prize Package with flights, lounge passes and conference ticket!
We’re recapping the day and sharing with you the exciting networking opportunties available in the evening. And we’re even drawing a few prizes! Make sure you’re in the audiece to win a TechExit West Prize Package with flights, lounge passes and conference ticket!
Exclusive SaaS Data: 250 Valuation Data Points with Nathan Latka
Over the past 5 years 15m SaaS founders and investors have listened in as Latka interviewed 3,218 SaaS founders for his podcast “The Top Entrepreneurs”. In this session, he’ll share recent data points driving SaaS economics and predict what the market will look like in Q1 2022.
Over the past 5 years 15m SaaS founders and investors have listened in as Latka interviewed 3,218 SaaS founders for his podcast “The Top Entrepreneurs”. In this session, he’ll share recent data points driving SaaS economics and predict what the market will look like in Q1 2022: SaaS founders getting 40x revenue multiples are optimizing for this 1 metric (hint: not revenue growth), IPO watch: 6 SaaS companies likely to IPO in next 6 months and fastest growing: These 9 SaaS founders broke $10m in ARR, growing 100%+ yoy. Here’s what they’re doing.
