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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

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We’ve discussed most before individually, but let me throw ’em together: It may well take 24 months to get to true product-market fit and Initial Traction. 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.

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

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The top 5, with links to the related posts: It may well take 24 months to get to true product-market fit and Initial Traction. This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process. VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. True in B2C too of course. If you budget any less, you probably will fail.