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

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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. And thus the next level C-level hiring process ends up being about the same, bootstrapped or not. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link].

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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. Even if you don’t have quite as much fuel as if you’d raised venture capital. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link].

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You *know* your exec team desperately needs an offsite. We’ve got the easiest (and best, and cheapest) solution

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2019) we could mostly count on camaraderie to build organically in the office. Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum. It’s been a challenging couple of years and we’re still adapting to the new normal. Back in ye-olde-days (i.e. How to Make Product Plans in an Ever-Changing World.

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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. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link]. The other day I was meeting with a great CEO who had raised a modest seed round.

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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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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. Just add 1 veteran leader each $10m ARR. It all works out if you do. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link]. The post Bet On Up-and-Comers.