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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

SaaStr

And that means your initial leadership team often takes you faster, and further, than you might ever think. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. Then, they can scale almost infinitely. This almost automatically helps solve a lot of your scaling problems.

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The Top 5 Things Everyone Should Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

More here: From Initial Traction to Initial Scale (~$10M in ARR): The Hardest Phase. VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. Finally you have great customers and traction?—?but but you can’t afford to hire all the people you need to meet their needs. This is actually the most exhausting phase. And Then?—?Reignition. Reignition.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. But you’ll need a manager to scale beyond 2. Without a great VP of Engineering, you won’t be able to scale your engineering team. But it’ll be harder on you, and you’ll scale more slowly than you could. Wait longer?

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. And it will require a collaboration across the organization at the leadership level. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic. Rico Mallozzi, Sr. Colleen Kapase.

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