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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Top Worries Founders Have As They Start to Scale?

SaaStr

Keep that customer happy but aggressively find others like them. Go find them. The challenges shift as you grow—early on, it’s about finding product-market fit and landing those first 50-100 customers. Hiring the Right Team: A lot of founders wait too long to hire great VPsVP of Sales, VP of Marketing, VP of Engineering.

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The #1 Worst Hire of All When You Are Just Starting To Scale: The Mediocre VP of Engineering

SaaStr

Every time I see a CRO that doesn't sell themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CTO that doesn't code themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CMO that doesn't market themselves, they fail. We’ve spend the most time on hiring a great first VP of Sales, but all the VPs are super important.

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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

Chart Mogul

This time last year, 24 SaaS experts predicted big things for 2024. Next we’ll be hiring it. However this will take time, so until then, companies will experiment with usage based pricing, and continue the debate whether usage based or licensing is the better pricing model in the long run. What will 2025 bring?

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Building and Scaling an AI Company in 2025: What Top VCs Really Want to See with Zetta, Glasswing and B Capital

SaaStr

A deep dive with three leading AI investors who collectively manage billions in venture capital and have backed some of the most innovative companies in artificial intelligence. Previously a Director of Engineering at Facebook and VP of Engineering at VMware, she brings deep technical expertise to evaluating early-stage AI companies.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by). 55:09 The new math of headcount: scaling to $100M+ with fewer hires. 09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by). 55:09 The new math of headcount: scaling to $100M+ with fewer hires.

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The AI Wake-Up Call with Jason Lemkin: Why You Need to Move Faster or Get Left Behind

SaaStr

It’s about getting “maimed” as innovative AI-first companies eat into your businessnot by destroying you, but by steadily cutting away at your growth. Customers want fewer vendors BUT they’ll make exceptions for true innovation. Your challenge: be exceptional enough to break through the consolidation mandate.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR.