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

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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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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

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Challenge #3: Making Your Product, Sales, and Marketing Organizations Enterprise-Ready How do you actually get your entire organization aligned so they can support your Enterprise customers? You also need dedicated resources across your organization — marketing, customer success, product, legal, and finance.

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

Tom Tunguz

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Market : how to compete with incumbents? Enterprise readiness will be an essential : ensuring buyers are safe from legal & compliance risks.

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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

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She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. After that, they released instruction following models, which were the first Enterprise-ready models. The reality was product market fit wasn’t quite there yet. How did they get here?

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

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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. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr Podcast 454 (and Video): Shiven Ramji, Auth0 Chief Product Officer on What To Expect From a (Great) VP+ of Product

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Yet, as time passes, the cost of failure grows, and therefore experience, research, and enterprise readiness are essential. You’ll want someone who drives results and also deeply understands the market and the customer. Prepare for a bumpy growth journey from startup to enterprise readiness.

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Building a Product-Led Growth Machine: Office Hours with GC Lionetti

Tom Tunguz

On Wednesday, December 16th at 9:00 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti , the CMO of Confluent, which was founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® and pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. What is the relationship between Growth, Marketing, Sales, and Product?