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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower SaaS

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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A closer look at the 6 things to pre-empt 90% of Due Diligence

The Angel VC

Since last week's post about 6-7 things to pre-empt 90% of Due Diligence was liked/shared/retweeted quite a bit, I'd like to follow up with some additional details on what exactly SaaS Series A/B investors will look for when you supply them with the data and material that I've mentioned. How has your ARPA developed?

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Embedded Payments in 2024: A year in review for platforms | Episode 44

Payrix

The world of Embedded Payments saw remarkable developments in 2024, shaping strategies and innovations across the industry. In her current role as Director of Solution Consulting, Ella works with SaaS companies to develop a vision and strategic solutions to embed and monetize payments. There is a lot of material out there.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

When I was running it, it was a lot smaller than that, but scaled that up very, very quickly. And when you’re doing the due diligence, there’s only so many assets within a YouTube channel you need to assess. And that’s substantial scale in. That’s now a billion dollar company.

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The 2 Things To Look For — At a Minimum — In Any First VP of Sales

SaaStr

I’ve written a lot about this, but for most start-ups, you can boil it down to two criteria any first VP of Sales just has to meet: Has she built at least a small team before? This isn’t the same as having been a great rep herself, or having inherited a team. If you can hire 2–3 great ones, you can likely scale and hire 20–30.

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The Two Most Important Things To Look For When You Hire Your First VP of Sales

SaaStr

Has she built at least a small team before? This isn’t the same as having been a great rep herself, or having inherited a team. If you can hire 2–3 great ones, you can likely scale and hire 20–30. Do the diligence here to make sure she’s really been able to recruit at least a few successful reps.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?