Comments on: 18 Extraordinary Lessons Learned From Interviewing The World’s Top SaaS Entrepreneurs

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 06:09:32 +0000

I was thinking of adding a forever free plan and this post convinced me. Thanks!

By: E D House

E D House — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:29:14 +0000

Also Facebook groups – my target market has their own group of around 2,000 members so I run polls on there or I ask them a question.

By: DeliaEne

DeliaEne — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:55:27 +0000

Best takeaways for me (business level): Learn – and Use – the Exact Words That Your Customers Use & (personal level): You DO Have Enough Time

By: Stoimen

Stoimen — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:07:34 +0000

Thanks for the article, it was exciting. #4 – “Use Facebook to validate your idea” completely grabbed my attention. Just shared it to my colleagues, its worth testing.
Also it was quite fun reading the interview with Rand Fishkin.
Waiting for see more from these series in the future ~~ keep the cool work it is really inspiring.

By: Andrei Baklinau (Boosta.ru)

Andrei Baklinau (Boosta.ru) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:57:48 +0000

Thanks for the article. It was very interesting to read the takeaways from such amazings CEOs of successful companies

By: Maxim from CrazyLister

Maxim from CrazyLister — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 08:20:29 +0000

Hey Alex,
Thanks for summarizing these insightful points into one post.
I would add to #1 – in some industries/markets it’s not common to offer a forever free plan, and for a startup in that sphere it will be very tempting to ‘go with the stream’ and mimic its more successful and well known competitors by offering a free trial and paid plans.

I would argue to do just the opposite and stick to a forever free plan even when your competition is not doing that, the upside of being different and offering something new to the market can outperform the norm.
It’s a risk, but one worth taking, in any case you will have to measure it (split test) and see what works better because even those counter intuitive decisions have to be validated at some point.

By: Dave @ Posto.io

Dave @ Posto.io — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 03:24:58 +0000

Sage advice from those that have played the game well. Alex, thanks again for sharing such high quality information with us all. Lots of great lessons learned and lessons yet to be undertaken in the above.

By: David Silva Smith

David Silva Smith — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:41:45 +0000

My interesting takeaway was from David Hauser on not going after other audiences unless they match my demographic.

By: Tejaswi Raghurama

Tejaswi Raghurama — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:21:03 +0000

Alex, loved the way you highlighted the best tips fromi the leaders in SaaS we look up to. Hiten and Rick especially gave such actionable steps – ready to implement. Can you share your own experience in paid advertising? We have burnt our fingers chasing a niche and the economics didnt make sense for us. The CAC was hitting the roof

By: Pavel Ciobanu

Pavel Ciobanu — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:10:41 +0000

Alex, thanks for sharing these insights. I just shared your article with friends and my community. Regarding #4 – “Use Facebook to validate your idea” what is your opinion? I’d love to hear your thoughts about validating the hypothesis / idea of a startup. How do you exactly recommend others to validate their ideas (even for non Saas products)? I’m talking about getting the early adopters and have them using your product in the early days.