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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

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You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. You’ll probably hire the wrong first VP of Sales. Don’t be blinded by brands. If you’re not willing to constantly recruit cross-functionality … you’ll never attract the talent. True in B2C too of course. Everyone is.

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

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So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Jabari Norton.

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

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Often folks they convince to once again be a VP of Eng or VP of Sales. The ones that will benefit from taking a risk on a less-proven team and brand. The sales leader that did well, but their startup still didn’t quite make it. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR.