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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

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In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big. Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders?

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

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In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. She can be your CTO forever.

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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As part of that, we wanted to look back at some of our most iconic content and sessions. One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). Make the revenue recur, I’m interested. SaaStr is Turning 10!

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

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1: Don’t hire a VP (or anyone in the early days) that you aren’t 95% sure is great. Founders between a million and $250M are talking about lowering the bar for hiring because they aren’t sure if the person is great or they’re trying to fill a gap. If you aren’t meeting that many, you aren’t taking hiring seriously.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

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Anyone who says the developer market is not strong is behind the times. They’re able to actually swipe a credit card, and what starts off similar to a freemium self-serve product can turn into a six-figure contract in just a few months. The contract size grows. What’s Different About Selling to Developers.

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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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As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. You’ll find out tomorrow. And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). It’s been fine.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

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Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.