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Doubling Down: Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

SaaStr

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Especially in this macro environment, investors don’t just want to see top line revenue growth; they want to see that you can achieve that growth with sound business fundamentals. #4. Why did you do the deal?

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. You have to see: A couple of good hires brought in Improvement on some metrics A big deal or two hanging out there, brought in and closed Things taken off your plate. But after a couple million in ARR, you can afford any hire if they’re accretive.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

How can founders know when is the right time to make the move from SMB to enterprise? Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling? With the scaling of departments and teams, what has Erica seen work really well when it comes to making cross-functional teams communicate really well?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $156,062/yr.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. The evidence that made it super clear in the end was that we were not closing big deals with technology buyers at scale.

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