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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

Now may be the time to turn your eyes to the enterprise readiness horizon. Here are seven things enterprise SaaS customers look for. #1 It’s not just that enterprises are rich targets. It’s not just that enterprises are rich targets. Still, it also means a lot more scrutiny on how your product works.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

You’ll need more than 5–10 engineers to go big. You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering. She can be your CTO forever.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

Enterprise readiness will be an essential : ensuring buyers are safe from legal & compliance risks. Startups can integrate with a plug-in, build a prompt-tuning engine (a little model on top of a bigger model), or develop & train their own models.

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Thanks to Demandwell, DuploCloud, Prismatic, SafeBase, and WorkOS for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do. WorkOS provides APIs to make your app enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big. You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering. She can be your CTO forever.

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Building a Product-Led Growth Machine: Office Hours with GC Lionetti

Tom Tunguz

On Wednesday, December 16th at 9:00 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti , the CMO of Confluent, which was founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® and pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. billion valuation for its recent $250 million Series E round.