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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. The result: better security and no need for manual IP whitelisting.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. Maybe starting with a few individual contributors is even better than a manager, because these days many CS leaders don’t really want to be as hands-on as they used to be. But you’ll need a manager to scale beyond 2. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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

SaaStr

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. And no excuses not to have a fully built management team by then. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. This is the key insight. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. But the founders and CEOs need to attract even more types of managers, earlier, in SaaS. You have to love, or at least commit to, recruiting constantly. If you’re not willing to constantly recruit cross-functionality … you’ll never attract the talent.

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

SaaStr

How to Manage 100+ SDRs Across 4 Continents in 6 Countries and 10 Cities. Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum. Dini Mehta, CRO @ Lattice. Lars Nilsson, VPS @ Snowflake. With sessions like… Optimizing GTM for PLG . Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? .

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Big Switch targets shadow IT, hybrid cloud growth with fortified software family

IT World

Big Switch has rolled a variety of new software packages aimed at simplifying customer networks and helping them manage on-premises and hybrid-cloud data-center growth. VPCs provide the on-demand access to a pool of shared cloud-computing resources.

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

SaaStr

ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. More here: What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? But after that, you’ve built an engine. 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