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

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This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process. but you can’t afford to hire all the people you need to meet their needs. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the startup. You have to love, or at least commit to, recruiting constantly. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS?—?VPS, You do get better.

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Growing Product and Engineering Orgs from Zero to IPO with Twitter and Redpoint Ventures

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SaaStr favorite Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures was gracious enough to sit down with Nick Caldwell, former CPO of Looker and current VP of Engineering at Twitter. Nick has vast experience when it comes to B2B and B2C, which is why we asked them to share their best tips for growing product and engineering orgs from 0 to IPO.