About

Hi! 👋 Thank you for the visit. I’m very excited to have you here. My name is Victoria, and I’m the mind behind SaaS Minds (pun intended). My mission is to reverse engineer SaaS growth practices and share them with SaaS founders, managers, and professionals, ensuring they’re well equipped to increase their company’s $ARR.

I spend a big part of my time analyzing different SaaS companies, reverse engineering their growth practices, frameworks, and strategies. Subsequently, I summarize my analysis into brief, easy-to-read reports to help you identify new growth opportunities.

Quick Facts

My mission is to build the go-to SaaS Growth Practices Library, packed with actionable insights, powerful examples, and unique ideas. To run SaaS Minds, I’m combining a specific set of skills & knowledge I’ve acquired during the years:

>> SaaS experience (+5 years working with SaaS brands)
>> Content creation (+5 years as a freelance writer)
>> Interviewing & Podcasting (Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism)
>> Content design (learning Webflow by myself)
>> Digital marketing (learning by doing & experimenting)
>> Business Management (running a registered business)

Best SaaS Teams I Worked With

👉 Eventtia 🇫🇷 🇨🇴
👉 Demio 🇺🇸
👉 Banzai 🇺🇸
👉 Navattic 🇺🇸
👉 LeadDelta 🇨🇦
👉 Upvoty 🇳🇱
👉 Taskade 🇺🇸
👉 Zkipster 🇺🇸
👉 Eventory 🇵🇱

SaaS Tools I Love & Use

🔹 Notion
🔹 Webflow
🔹 Memberstack
🔹 Xolo
🔹 Riverside.fm
🔹 Hopin
🔹 Slack
🔹 Loom
🔹 Fathom
🔹 Circle.so

Great Authors I Read

📝 Cal Newport
📝 Julian Shapiro
📝 Pat Walls
📝 Arvid Kahl
📝 Ben Thompson
📝 Scott H. Young
📝 Farnam Street
📝 Darius Foroux
📝 James Clear

Books I Love & Recommend

📙 The Iconist: The Art and Science of Standing Out by Jamie Mustard
📙 The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky
📙 Lost and Founder by Ran Fishkin
📙 Company of One by Paul Jarvis
📙 Streaming, Sharing, Stealing by Michael D. Smith & Rahul Telang
📙 Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush
📙 The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen
📙 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
📙 Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
📙 Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman

Best Articles I’ve Read

➡ Product Zeitgeist Fit: A Cheat Code for Spotting and Building the Next Big Thing (link)
➡ Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem (link)
➡ Five ways to build a $100 million business (link
➡ 1,000 True Fans (link)
➡ How to Write Something Compelling (link)
➡ $0 to $10,000,000 in ARR bootstrapped - how to achieve the impossible? (link)
➡ Peter Thiel’s Religion (link)
➡ Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization (link)
➡ The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, and Who Will Build It (link)

Things I Do When I’m Away From SaaS Minds

>> Long walks in nature. Estonia is a country rich in forest – over a half (51.4%) of the mainland is covered with mostly semi-natural forests.
>> Communication. Love connecting with like-minded people and discovering new online communities.
>> Non-fiction books. Max Tegmark, Robert Sapolsky, Cal Newport, Lisa Randall, Jaron Lanier, Steven Kotler, Kevin Roose, Morgan Housel, Thomas Sowell, and more.
>> Fiction books. Karl Ove Knausgård, Nikos Kazantzakis, Eiji Yoshikawa, Thomas Mann, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, Anatoly Rybakov, and more.
>> Art. Learning about my favorite painters, such as Vincent van Gogh, Johannes Vermeer, Salvador Dali, Édouard Cortès, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and more.
>> Random. Love espresso, matcha croissants, Moleskine notebooks, and Japanese city pop funk, jazz & psychedelic folk of the 70s/80s.
>> I moved a lot: Chisinau, Moldova 🇲🇩 ➡ Bilbao, Spain 🇪🇸 ➡ Granada, Spain 🇪🇸 ➡ Crete, Greece 🇬🇷 ➡ (now) Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪 ➡ (soon) Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

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