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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

You really need a great CTO, not just a good business team. A mediocre tech team, a part-time CTO, or even just a decent CTO just doesn’t get you there. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. Every month, the Net New Revenue dial goes back to $0. You do get better.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Bigger Picture: Other Needs When I broadened my thinking, I quickly realized we had already implemented two other one-off remote access solutions: To enable SQL GUI tool access to the database, we set up bastion servers on our staging and production VPCs. ” To drill down a bit: Keep our AWS Virtual Private Clouds walled off and private.