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

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In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier 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.

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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 can’t hack it forever.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The company was, their sales were quite a bit bigger than the other two companies.