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Dear SaaStr: Why did Jason M. Lemkin Change his Point of View on The Value of a COO for Earlier Stage Startups?

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Lemkin Change his Point of View on The Value of a COO for Earlier Stage Startups? I felt part of your core job as CEO was to assemble a management team, not complain about how you couldn’t get it all done. I felt part of your core job as CEO was to assemble a management team, not complain about how you couldn’t get it all done.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

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GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. You also don’t want to hire a VP of Sales who won’t carry a bag. Or why you lose?

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The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Q: How Do You Get Sustainable Output In A Startup?

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

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Indeed this was also my #1 mistake and the #1 I see from so many startups learning to go upmarket. “For large enterprise customers, your stakeholder map is almost always too small” — Alex Farmer, VP CS, Cognite Data. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on.

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

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To some extent, if you have the hottest startup in the world, the full package, you can play some games with investors. 99% of startups aren’t that. For 99% of startups, when you want money, tell VCs you want money. 2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” We can’t afford a VP of marketing, a VP of Sales, Customer Success.”

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

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But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today.