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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

You’ll probably want to include Contract Labor – R&D for any product-related contractors you work with. If you are a smaller team, I recommend not to categorize your CTO or the Sales Leader in G&A until they have at least a few people in their teams. Don’t forget the payroll’s subaccounts). Finally, add the software account.

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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 in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. Then I was the CTO at another YC company, Standard Treasury, acquired by Silicon Valley Bank.

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The Three Un’s of Successful Founders

Kellblog

The CEO said to the CTO as we were leaving, “spend the $9M anyway.” A founder — because in their mind it’s their company — will make up their own mind about what’s best for the company and potentially travel in another dimension, like up or down. They apologize for missed quarters or bad hires.

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Resource Constraints, omg Zork!, Golden Era Of Startups?, and more – Mattermark Daily

Mattermark

Our CTO Kevin says: “It’s like the beginning of people’s imagination with computer games, which is awesome.” Karolis at Zeus reached out to let us know they’re hiring! Hiring for: Senior Software Engineer (Full stack). In their own words: We’re a small group of 14.

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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!) We’re so passionate about supporting our founders, and are deeply empathetic to the trials and tribulations they’ll face as they travel on the epic journey that is building a successful company.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. I knew nothing about tech. That was my perception of tech.

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SaasOps Stories With Joseph Fuller, Head of IT at Deputy

BetterCloud

We were days away from signing a big contract with an AV vendor to rehab the cafe space that we had to put on pause. It sounds really lame, but probably travel. Want more insights on how you can support a remote workforce in constantly changing times? How about from your team’s perspective? That’s great advice.