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5 Ways to Mitigate Stress In Your SaaS Start-Up

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In my first start-up, my co-founder and I met for 20 minutes at the end of every single day, and had lunch as often as we could. Don’t burden them with your near-death experiences, the terrible lows, after the initial starting-up period. Drive down churn, and drive up NRR. And clean up your larger teams a bit.

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The Things You Have to Get Right When You Start a Start-Up

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Everyone today wants to start a SaaS startup. But many founders at very successful start-ups are smart and driven, but no Elon Musk. So many apps start as hacks. Many folks start something without a truly Minimum Viable Team. They have an idea they are passionate about. And maybe they are. What does it take?

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Why Start-Ups Should Nail Down Their Marketing Before Building a Sales Team

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The post Why Start-Ups Should Nail Down Their Marketing Before Building a Sales Team appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Should marketing come before outbound sales? Here are 5 reasons why startups should nail down their marketing foundations before building a sales team.

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Setting up your website: Getting started with Google Analytics 4

Martech

Working with Colleen Harris, head of business intelligence and reporting strategy at Sincro, we’ve put together a multi-part guide to getting started with GA4. So yes, we should all be setting up our GA4 to be doing our year-over-year analytics,” says Colleen Harris. “So Go here for our previous installment. Get MarTech!

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Setting up goals: Getting started with Google Analytics 4

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Working with Colleen Harris, head of business intelligence and reporting strategy at Sincro, we’ve put together a multi-part guide to getting started with GA4. In GA4 you can have up to 30 differently defined conversions, 10 more than you had in UA. To start, each of those buckets should have five or fewer conversions in them.

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SaaS Start-Ups: Buck Up – It Really Does Get Easier. Or At Least — You Get Better.

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But one of my top learnings from to all the other SaaS start-ups out there: for the founders — it gets easier. And this also starts to become a moat vs. other smaller entrants. The post SaaS Start-Ups: Buck Up – It Really Does Get Easier. You sort of never get a break as a VP of Sales.

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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

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Start-ups are so, so hard. And then drag it right up that hill to $10m ARR. You really can’t know how hard it is, even if you were a VP at a great start-up, even if you were the first employee, even. Second, for the entire history of my first start-up as a founder. But what does this mean ?

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