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7 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear That They Need to Hear with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

That placeholder for the VP of Finance never gets the financials done, and the VP of Marketing talks and talks but hasn’t ever worked with a sales team. When you hire that VP of Engineering who never learns the product, it doesn’t work. It never works. There is a 0% chance it works.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. I find that refreshing. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

Chart Mogul

Martin Raile , VP of Finance & Operations at ChartMogul There will be more and more niche SaaS products. Jared Kleinert , Founder and CEO of Offsite.com 2025 will be the best year for SaaS companies (and tech in general) since 2021, but it wont always feel like it.