Dirk Sahlmer

Acquiring SaaS companies @ saas.group | saas.wtf Newsletter

Engineer turned M&A professional. After 20+ transactions on the buy-side, I'm now helping tech founders run a structured exit process.

Posting regularly here on LI and in my saas.wtf newsletter on SaaS and  M&A topics.

Head of Origination

It's Sunday and you're scrolling LinkedIn instead of doing anything productive? Cool, I have something for you..


Alexander from MRR Unlocked 🚀 asked me to contribute to a playbook for SaaS founders scaling from 0 to €1M ARR.

My brief: Share your #1 tip.

If you've been following me for a while, you can probably guess what mine was ab

(Spoiler: It involves KPIs)

The article also includes insights from many other people who are smarter than me covering positioning, ICP, content strategy, pricing, and CRM.

Definitely worth a read: https://lnkd.in/es-EzACY

One more thing: Alex asked me to post about it tomorrow. But I'm doing it on Sunday evening because I like to make life difficult.
 
Please engage and help me send this to the moon, so he won't complain that I didn't follow directions.
 
Thanks in advance. 🫶

I help Tech founders exit | Partner @ FE International | saas.wtf Newsletter

Statsig

Growth & GTM Ops

Business Operations & Strategy

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Discover new ways to grow your B2B SaaS company. Join the 4,000+ SaaS operators and investors getting curated growth strategies every Friday.

Owner and Writer

Growth Street Partners

• Worked with both the Investment team and the Operations team to manage the firm’s outbound strategy and provide operational support to existing portfolio companies
• Helped the go-to-market leaders execute growth strategies to drive key metrics (e.g., New ARR, Net Retention)
• Used Salesforce and HubSpot to build dashboards and reports to analyze the entire pipeline activity and stage conversion rates
• Built Python applications to automate data extraction needs and manipulate existing data to perform key analyses

Analyst, Operations

• Salesforce Admin in charge of maintaining objects, creating new fields, ensuring data quality, and building process builder automation
• Building Python functions using the Pandas library to clean account records and match them with third-party data sources
• Building web scrapers using Python to extract data and enhance account records at scale 
• Running contact searches in ZoomInfo and adding them to cadence using SalesLoft
• Mapping various business processes to each opportunity stage and activity, and creating detailed internal documentation

Data Operations Intern 

Growth Street Partners provides early growth capital to vertically focused, rapidly growing SaaS and technology-enabled services companies located in underserved U.S. markets. The firm partners with founders who lived the problem their business is now solving. Growth Street targets investments of $3-10 million in companies with $1-5 million of annual run-rate revenue. By providing a unique balance of capital and help, Growth Street allows entrepreneurs to accelerate their business without losing control.

Research Analyst Intern

IQubed

Founder and Chief Problem Solver

Chinook Capital Advisors - Serving business owners in the Pacific Northwest with expert M&A advice

Chinook Capital Advisors is a leading M&A advisory firm serving the needs of Pacific Northwest business owners. The firm helps businesses prepare for and execute transition events with expertise in; sell-side advisory/seller representation services, advisory board/transaction preparation services, valuation services, and debt advisory services. Chinook serves many of the key industries that drive the Pacific Northwest economy, including manufacturing, distribution, aerospace, business services, technology, healthcare, food & beverage, and consumer products.

Investment Banking Analyst Intern

HVN Apparel

HVN Apparel was Hawaii’s premier design-centric eco-label making waves both locally and internationally. The company was on a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

As the Co-owner and Director of Operations, I was responsible for:

Operations:
• Business process efficiency
• Managing day to day business operations
• Managing inventory
• Connecting excel with Square POS system to create sales reports
• Creating invoices and purchase orders in excel
• Managing the order fulfillment process
• Providing customer support

Accounting:
• Managing the accounting system in QuickBooks Online
• Bookkeeping
• Creating financial reports using QuickBooks Online
• Analyzing financial statements

Finance:
• Creating financial projections in excel
• Creating scenario models in excel to forecast cash flow

Director of Operations

The TL'DR about my background:

1. I help B2B SaaS founders and operators discover their next growth strategy

2. Currently helping Statsig build a kick-ass GTM motion

3. I previously worked in growth equity investing in vertical SaaS companies

(Bonus round: I don’t have a degree)

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