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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

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This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process enough in the early days. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. True in B2C too of course. But the founders and CEOs need to attract even more types of managers, earlier, in SaaS. It’s just too competitive today.

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

SaaStr

This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process. VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. True in B2C too of course. But the founders and CEOs need to attract even more types of managers, earlier, in SaaS. If you budget any less, you probably will fail. You have to love, or at least commit to, recruiting constantly.