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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. Every month, the Net New Revenue dial goes back to $0. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the startup. You have to love, or at least commit to, recruiting constantly. True in B2C too of course. But you gotta get there — and be capital efficient.

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Dear SaaStr: I’m Bootstrapped. How Can I Afford to Hire Any VPs?

SaaStr

But as you approach $8m-$10m ARR, there will be enough revenue. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. And no excuses not to have a fully built management team by then. And thus the next level C-level hiring process ends up being about the same, bootstrapped or not. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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You *know* your exec team desperately needs an offsite. We’ve got the easiest (and best, and cheapest) solution

SaaStr

Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? . Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum. With sessions like… Revenue Alignment: How to Pull Marketing, Sales, Customer Success Together . More… Michelle Adams, CRO @ Algolia. Sterling Snow, CRO @ Divvy.

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

SaaStr

VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. Every month, the Net New Revenue dial goes back to $0. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years. You have to love, or at least commit to, recruiting constantly. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS?—?VPS, True in B2C too of course. It actually never gets easier.

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

SaaStr

And so, our product really needs from a customer adoption standpoint, to be integrated into the cloud service provider fabric.

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

SaaStr

A truly experienced VP of Sales, for example, will know exactly how to scale the sales team to hit your revenue goals. That's a wrap for @Twilio 's Q4 2020 earnings: $548M revenue, up 65% Y/Y. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. Once it all starts to get really complicated.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. While they are relying on NPS and customer satisfaction as good proxy metrics, they’re also looking for more tangible ways to measure returns, such as revenue generation, savings, efficiency, and accuracy gains, depending on their use case.