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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. What are your key Startup Metrics ? If you launched tomorrow, how many users would you forecast? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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Thanks to Mercury, Rattle, Remote, Trustero, and Vention for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Mercury offers banking* for startups — at any size or stage. Launched in 2019, Mercury is trusted by more than 100,000 startups. Rattle gives revenue leaders control over their business with intelligent real-time alerts that unlock actionable insights, drive collaboration and alignment, and improve forecast accuracy.

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The Intersection of AI and Security: What’s New at Secureframe with CEO Shrav Mehta

SaaStr

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. So the time to implementation and compliance is much quicker now than it used to be.

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Balancing Hyper Growth with Risk: Secrets to Scaling with Brex’s COO and Alloy’s CRO

SaaStr

Brex is a company that provides credit cards for startups, and Alloy provides financing for small businesses. On Balancing Compliance and Growth: Compliance, for any sub-category in SaaS, whether it’s marketing following GDPR compliance or your product team following FinTech compliance – it’s binary.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

A problem many founders are trying to solve right now is going upmarket to Enterprise, and Lemkin and Grinich have a passionate perspective that every startup should take steps to check those Enterprise boxes in their first year. This doesn’t include the compliance or security teams. The takeaway? And 99.99% of the time, it won’t.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. As a startup, it’s hard to know if the timing is right and what to expect. Forecasting can help define revenue numbers, the support you need to provide, headcounts, and opportunities to tap into new businesses. Set clear milestones and targets together.

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Hitting Hypergrowth: How To Take Your SaaS Company from $25M to $100M and Beyond with Amplitude’s CEO, Spenser Skates

SaaStr

Amplitude is a digital analytics platform that started out of another failed startup with three co-founders. You want to replicate the conditions of a startup team and manage the entire portfolio of “mini startups” as a leader, which you’ll learn more about in the next section. Being in compliance. The long-term roadmap.

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