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Dear SaaStr: I’m Bootstrapped. How Can I Afford to Hire Any VPs?

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But by $10m ARR, bootstrapped SaaS companies mint enough cash to fund all these hires. 10m ARR bootstrapped companies start to converge and look a lot like $10m ARR venutre-backed SaaS companies. If you are bootstrapped in SaaS, you won’t have enough capital to build your management team as fast you need to for quite a while.

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Dear SaaStr: When should a bootstrapped startup hire a (CFO, COO, CMO)?

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ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. — Jason 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. And by $10m ARR, bootstrapped SaaS companies generally generate enough cash to fund all these hires at almost the same pace as venture-backed ones. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

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ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. But it’s a good question and I thought it might make sense to set out an Ideal VP Hiring Plan for Most SaaS Companies. I’ve worked closely with 26+ SaaS start-ups and founded a few.

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SaaStr Annual Prices Go Up $400 (!) Tomorrow!! And Check Out Our 300+ Amazing Speakers!!

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Grab the final 2019 priced tickets here. Well: CEOs of Zoom, Okta, Box, PagerDuty, Mixmax, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Airtable, Dialpad, Gainsight, Gitlab, HackerOne, Zapier, Front, Cloudinary and 100+ more!! CIOs of Adobe, Zendesk, Nutanix, Ciena, Google Cloud and 200+ more! Only 11% have bought their pass!

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

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The top SaaS companies grow faster than ever these days. Veterans of the SaaS journey. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. That’s insightful @jasonlk [link]. — Elkanah Carnell Reed (@ElkanahReed) April 6, 2021.