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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. You need someone who spends 50 hours a week planning the roadmap, triaging customer feedback, nudging the engineering team. You’ll need a VP of Engineering by $8m-$10m ARR. 90% of CTOs and founders struggle to hire engineers 10-100.

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Dear SaaStr: When should a bootstrapped startup hire a (CFO, COO, CMO)?

SaaStr

But after that, you’ve built an engine. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. You may only be able to afford one VP at first, even at $2m ARR or so. Even if you don’t have quite as much fuel as if you’d raised venture capital. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m

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Do Your VPs Have a Mentor Budget?

SaaStr

But what would be even better would be to also have an experienced peer that is a true VPS or VPM or VPCS. For new engineering managers, for example, you can use platforms like PlatoHQ that have 100s of world-class VPs of Engineering and CTOs to act as mentors — in real-time.

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

SaaStr

The Playbook to Building Your SDR Growth Engine. Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? . How to Manage 100+ SDRs Across 4 Continents in 6 Countries and 10 Cities. How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B .

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). And the customer manages the data.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams Of course, not all customers want to pay for all the features. Lift and shift changes can also introduce costs around spiky network traffic or data egress/ingress charges across secure VPCs or Availability Zones.

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The First Wave of AI and GTM Speakers is Here for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!

SaaStr

” Head of AI Dialpad: “How to Build AI at Scale” GTM/ B2B Speakers: CEO HubSpot Yamini Rangan : “Going More Multiproduct, Going More AI, and Going More SMB and More Enterprise” CEO Dropbox Drew Houston : “DropBox’s Third Act: AI & Content Intelligence” CEO Calendly Tope Awotona “Open AMA and (..)