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

SaaStr

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. Marketing is also an art and science. WIth the best people, you get ahead of changes in the markets. With no VPs or medicore ones, changes in the market get the best of you.

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

SaaStr

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. Marketing is also an art and science. 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person. She can be your CTO forever.