SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

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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. The post Dear SaaStr: When should a bootstrapped startup hire a (CFO, COO, CMO)? How can a CEO hire those C-level positions for the first time as a CEO and entrepreneur?

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Startup 284

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2021

Q: 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. How can a CEO hire those C-level positions for the first time as a CEO and entrepreneur? What skills should he or she look for? Not all at once, but you can benefit from all of them by then.

Sales Hiring 293

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Startup 293

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

They often staff up their teams with folks they already know and have been successful with at their last startup. The sales leader that did well, but their startup still didn’t quite make it. But on-the-job-at-your-startup experience is even more important than prior experience. Veterans of the SaaS journey.

Part-Time VPE 284

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

With most startups building atop existing models & setting aside differences in fine-tuning, the ultimate performance should be relatively comparable, provided they use the same data sets. Will startups compete on access to different data sets? Today, there are more questions than answers about how to sell AI agent systems.

AI 195

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

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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VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Cloud Enterprise Data 223

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. How do you understand really if cloud marketplaces are right for your startup? Jabari Norton. Rico Mallozzi.

Scale 259

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 259