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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person. She can be your CTO forever.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person. She can be your CTO forever.