Scaling a SaaS Company: Lessons Learned
Thu, Mar 05
|Minneapolis Club
Our expert panel will share what works and what hasn't in scaling a SaaS business. Join us to learn the most important metrics to watch, where to invest and how to design governance that holds through multiple rounds. Plus, much more.
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Minneapolis Club , 729 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55402, USA
About the event
Our panel will include:
Katie Inouye Mednick - Founder | Alumah and Spark TS
Aric Bandy - President & COO, Founder, Investor | Multiple Companies | MESA Mentor & Entrepreneur Garrett Lauderdale - Vice President | Idea Fund of La Crosse
Scott Clasen - B2B Marketing Executive | Affinity Consulting Group
When it comes to SaaS, successful scaling means efficiently growing revenue and user base by optimizing technology, processes, and strategy to enhance performance and reduce costs.
Unlike mere growth, where costs rise with revenue, scaling focuses on building scalable infrastructure, refining pricing models, leveraging existing and new technologies, and targeting ideal customers.
Successful scaling may also involve a variety of strategies across the business at different growth stages.
Of course it's important to maintain strong customer retention while acquiring new customers for sustainable and profitable expansion.
Our expert panel has lessons to share, best practices to note and warnings to heed, learned from their own experiences.
Some of the questions we will ask them:
What early cracks appeared in your systems or team as you started growing faster than expected?
Which scaling decision looked right on paper but backfired in practice—and how did you recover?
What mistakes around technical debt or product velocity cost you the most time and money?
What items do founders most often tend to under-invest in or pay too little attention to?
Which metrics actually drive value creation — and which are overhyped in board decks?
How can you design your governance and cap table to stay clean through multiple rounds?
How did you create your initial pricing model, and how do you know when it’s time to revisit your pricing model—tiered, usage-based, or value-based—and what data should drive that decision?
Minneapolis Club members can purchase discounted tickets directly by logging into the Member site, contacting concierge@mplsclub.org or calling 612-332-2292.
Walkups are always welcome.
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