SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company? It takes 7–10 Years in SaaS to Get Anywhere. And 99% of SaaS companies will need 7–10 years to get to $100m ARR and beyond. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the startup. Some SaaS companies start off with huge TAMs, for sure.

Part-Time VPE 223

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) 223

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Dear SaaStr: When should a bootstrapped startup hire a (CFO, COO, CMO)? ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. And by $10m ARR, bootstrapped SaaS companies generally generate enough cash to fund all these hires at almost the same pace as venture-backed ones. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

Sales Hiring 209

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Startup 209

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2021

One fundamental question asked was What Everyone Should Know Before Starting a SaaS Company. More here: If You’re Going to Do a SaaS Start-Up … You Have to Give it 24 Months. The Cavalry is Coming and here: The SaaS Year of Hell. It takes 7–10 Years in SaaS to Get Anywhere. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the startup.

Part-Time VPE 276

Part-Time VPE VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) B2C SaaS 276

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2021

Q: When should a bootstrapped startup hire a (CFO, COO, CMO)? But by $10m ARR, bootstrapped SaaS companies mint enough cash to fund all these hires. 10m ARR bootstrapped companies start to converge and look a lot like $10m ARR venutre-backed SaaS companies. What skills should he or she look for? This is the key insight.

Sales Hiring 275

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Startup 275

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Jabari Norton.

Scale 209

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 209

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

The top SaaS companies grow faster than ever these days. They often staff up their teams with folks they already know and have been successful with at their last startup. Veterans of the SaaS journey. The sales leader that did well, but their startup still didn’t quite make it. That’s insightful @jasonlk [link].

Part-Time VPE 233

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 233

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. The SaaS company writes, updates, and maintains the code. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet.

Cloud 195

Cloud VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Enterprise Data 195