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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

This is also one of the least expensive (in terms of hard costs) things you can due to help the company scale in this phase, and beyond. At $8m in ARR, if you have $2m of cash in the bank, you get real nervous investing much more than $500k-$750k, $1m max. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. on the balance sheet.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. In those moments, I would always go back to my desk and start looking for a new job, it’s completely demoralizing.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

The decision to invest is based on the founding team’s potential and their product’s potential to scale and become a significant market player. Vitor Torres shared his journey in founding Contabilizei and how they integrated accounting with banking solutions to provide a full-stack experience for their customers.

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How Enterprise Companies are Buying AI (or Not) with ContextualAI, Anthropic, Glean, and Unusual Ventures

SaaStr

On top of that, these AI experts were impressed with how the largest companies in the world, not just software companies, but even more consumer-facing enterprise-sized companies like banks and retailers, are rolling forward with AI. ’ That’s really incredible. But actually, it turns out its still software.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. en you start saying, scaling and what does that even mean? They’re really giving them money to scale the business. Vlad : Ye ah.

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