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

SaaStr

Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? . How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B . Mastering the Mid-market: Lessons on Building and Selling into Scaling Enterprises. Learnings from 1,000+ Comp Plans: What to Avoid When Scaling from First Sales Hire to IPO. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum.

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The Top 5 Things Everyone Should Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

More here: From Initial Traction to Initial Scale (~$10M in ARR): The Hardest Phase. VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. Finally you have great customers and traction?—?but but you can’t afford to hire all the people you need to meet their needs. This is actually the most exhausting phase. And Then?—?Reignition. Reignition.

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Do Your VPs Have a Mentor Budget?

SaaStr

You can’t scale by training by osmosis. To think through how quickly to scale. But what would be even better would be to also have an experienced peer that is a true VPS or VPM or VPCS. We’ve also learned you can’t expect sales reps (or anyone) to get quickly up to speed on their own.

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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. But you’ll need a manager to scale beyond 2. Without a great VP of Engineering, you won’t be able to scale your engineering team. But it’ll be harder on you, and you’ll scale more slowly than you could. Wait longer?

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. And so, our product really needs from a customer adoption standpoint, to be integrated into the cloud service provider fabric. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Lift and shift changes can also introduce costs around spiky network traffic or data egress/ingress charges across secure VPCs or Availability Zones. So why put it on our shortlist?

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

SaaStr

Then, they can scale almost infinitely. This almost automatically helps solve a lot of your scaling problems. A truly experienced VP of Sales, for example, will know exactly how to scale the sales team to hit your revenue goals. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR.