It kept me up at night…  The entrepreneurial sweats. I used to dream about it, about how to fix it.  I read every book on it. Every blog post, every case study. I spoke to other SaaS founders  that fought the same battle. I needed to win. What battle?

I bet you dream about growth, dreams like: “If I got x more customers per month, our revenue would…” It’s exciting to think about where things could go, and how much revenue could come flooding in.  But I have to break it to you: There’s a limit. Yes, there’s a growth ceiling to a SaaS. I call it the Churn Flatline. It comes down to simple math, but it’s 100% predictable. 

Here’s a hypothetical for you: If your business suddenly took off - I mean like accidentally monopolizing your market and seeing exponential growth overnight - would you be able to handle it? Or would you crumble into a stressful wreck?

Imagine this… You’ve worked MONTHS gearing up to launch your product. You’re absolutely CERTAIN that the market will receive it with the same level of enthusiasm as you do (and I mean… why wouldn’t they? Your thing is awesome). So you put your reputation on the line by inviting 300 of your most influential friends and investors into a swanky-ass theatre for the official launch party. We’re talking people from Shark Tank, Dragon’s Den, Hootsuite, Freshbooks, etc. You pull back

300K/year. That’s the magic revenue number that a super high-performing expert or entrepreneur can expect to reach on their own before they smash their head against the glass ceiling. Doesn’t matter if you have your alarm set at 4:30am. Doesn’t matter if you grind it out through nights and weekends. Doesn’t matter if you throw down a bunch of brain drugs with bad names while looping binaural beats through your headphones.

Can we talk about your MRR for a sec? If you’re like most founders I coach inside SaaS Academy, chances are you: Obsess about growing it Overcomplicate how to do it Truth is, if you’re experiencing a plateau in your MRR, it probably has much less to do with your company’s growth potential, and everything to do with how you’re over-complicating the process of tapping into it. In this week’s episode, I cover the 6 things you can do TODAY

I’ve nerded out to over 1,000 business books. Of course, there’s the *obvious* classics like Traction, Scaling Up, and Good to Great. But there’s also this little-known, underground classic that I REFUSE to let any of my private coaching clients do without. It’s so *under the radar* that at last count, it had a whopping total of 9 Amazon reviews (all of them 5 stars by the way...)

During Flowtown’s peak, I had TWELVE people reporting to me. That was on top of my own workload that I was responsible for delivering on. Talk about overwhelm. I was literally inundating myself with reports/metrics/managers that didn’t necessarily serve the growth of the company. Rule of thumb:

25%. That’s the magic number you gotta obsess over. At least when it comes to your trial to paid conversions. If you’ve yet to have a virtual drink clink with your team for hitting that benchmark…

Ever hear of a guy named David Sacks? He has a crazy gift. Essentially, he doesn’t know how to get involved in a startup and NOT have it turn into a billion dollar success story. We’re talking about… … Paypal (sold to ebay for 1.5B) … Yammer (sold to Microsoft for 1.2B) … dozens of companies he was an angel investor in (Airbnb, Facebook, Uber) He’s as close to a “tech oracle” as there is…