When SaaS was discovered by India, a group of young people saw its potential and built incredible businesses around it.
These were the originals, the first SaaS hackers.
We brought a few of them together in March this year, under the banner of SaaSx1, so other SaaS entrepreneurs could learn from them, and don’t have to commit the same mistakes all over again. The idea was that the learning would allow the new, driven breed to leverage experience when building innovative companies. As we said then, the knowledge needed to grow SaaS business from zero to $10k to $100k to $1m in MRR is rare, and the only people who can tell you something about it are the people who have done so already.
The super successful event ensured that we kept getting mails asking us to do another, and soon.
But the quality of the first event ensured that we had to wait and work to put together speakers of the same calibre again, so SaaSx could become a premier event in the ecosystem.
And so here we are.
With #SaaSx2, and in the same place where it began – the newest kid of the startup ecosystem, Chennai. The event now returns with a leaner, meaner program that aims at ensuring that people ask the questions they want answers to, and take away specific action items they can immediately implement. This season will also debut an extended networking session, thus ensuring that everyone’s ideas have equal space in the ether, and the information shared and gained benefits everyone in the ecosystem.
Each one of the elements of the program has been tweaked keeping in mind last year’s experience, and the several Playbook RTs and meetups we have facilitated over the last few years. The speakers this year include Girish(Freshdesk), Aneesh Reddy(Capillary), Few SaaS startups and the tentative program is as follows.
| Time | Session Title |
| 1030 to 1300hrs | Pre-Event Playbook – “What it takes to Fund SaaS companies” |
| 1030 to 1300hrs | Pre-Event Playbook – “Are you ready to hit the growth pedal’ MVP” |
| 1300-1400hrs | Registrations & Lunch Networking |
| 1400-1415hrs | Introduce & Welcome #SaaSx2 |
| 1415-1515hrs | Fireside Chat – “Assembling a Commando Team in the early days” |
| 1515-1535hrs | 3 SaaS Founders talks about “One Thing” talk for 5 min each |
| 1535-1635hrs | Fireside Chat – “The Nuances of Enterprise SaaS” |
| 1635-1700hrs | 3 SaaS Founders talks about “One Thing” talk for 5 min each |
| 1700-1830hrs | Group Event |
| 1830-1850hrs | SaaS Landscape report to be launched by Signalhill/iSPIRT |
| 1850-1905hrs | SaaS Guide to be launched |
| 1905-2000hrs | Keynote Address |
| 2000hrs onwards | Entertainment – Standup comedy, Networking Cocktails & Dinner |
We will keep you updated over this as and when we have information, and please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you need any sort of assistance or have questions you need answered.