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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And then with your finance person or yourself or your outsourced person, you build a C-90 plan, which is one, we’re 90% sure, even if sales slow, we’re going to hit this plan. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO.

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Ten Questions Founder CEOs Should Always Be Able to Answer About Their Startups

Kellblog

Some startups have relatively complete teams while others have only a CEO and CTO and a few functional directors. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table. For example, say once we have 3 sales reps hitting their numbers we will go out and hire two more. Ditto for most hiring across the company.

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Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs

OPEXEngine

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. CEOs will come and go along a startup’s journey, but there is only one founder [2]. Nothing can take that away. However, some do [5].

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

His posts shed light on SaaS finance and calculations. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. He also featured in The New York Times and CB Insights.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. And it’s easy to inflate that for companies during the hiring process.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

” We had to do that three times. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. We’re starting to having lay people off.” And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. There’s a shift in how college is paid for, primarily with the loans and being financed, that’s contributed significantly to the runaway pace of inflation in post-secondary education costs. We were part of the office of the CTO.