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

SaaStr

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. You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready.

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

SaaStr

You can’t hack it forever. 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. Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big. She can be your CTO forever.