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

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. 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. She can be your CTO forever. As are you.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

Now may be the time to turn your eyes to the enterprise readiness horizon. Here are seven things enterprise SaaS customers look for. #1 It’s not just that enterprises are rich targets. It’s not just that enterprises are rich targets. Still, it also means a lot more scrutiny on how your product works.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

Enterprise readiness will be an essential : ensuring buyers are safe from legal & compliance risks. Startups can integrate with a plug-in, build a prompt-tuning engine (a little model on top of a bigger model), or develop & train their own models. Each subsequent choice is more expensive, but provides a deeper moat.

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

SaaStr

Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. 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’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big.

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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

After that, they released instruction following models, which were the first Enterprise-ready models. And even though it was a consumer product, it fired off a huge demand among Enterprise and businesses. Then came the big image model of DALL-E 2, taking the world by storm last summer. It started with chatbots.

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Scaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We allow your engineering teams to deliver higher quality product and features to your customers at a faster rate. If you’re interested in learning more about how your engineering teams can speed things up, come talk to me afterwards. SaaS = Software that scales. But, your people have to scale too.

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