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

SaaStr

You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. You’ll need more than 5–10 engineers to go big. She can be your CTO forever.

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

SaaStr

In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big.