VCs or Founders: Who Makes More; Plus Weekly SaaS News and Updates

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Hey SaaStr Community,

We're just 71 days away from the largest Cloud community gathering on the planet— SaaStr Annual 2021.

This September, join 10,000+ Cloud and SaaS Founders, VC, and Execs. In-person, once again! In the SF Bay Area. The 7th SaaStr Annual: 3 full days, 100’s of workshops, and 1000s of Mentoring sessions— all to help you scale faster.

This year's Annual is capacity limited. We'll be forced into switching to a waitlist in the next few weeks, so grab your tickets now if you want to be there, in person, for a celebration of all things SaaS.

> Use this link with our code for $400 off your tickets

New This Week

VCs or Founders: Who Makes More?

VCs have a much higher chance of making good money. But — truly great founders make the most by far. By far.

Here are my learnings -->

This edition of the SaaStr weekly is sponsored in part by Kintone

Raise Workplace: Demand for Top SF Office Space Will Soon Be Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Raise, which is a leading tech office broker and office leasing software platform, has some interesting data: #1. SF Office space is still depressed, but the top start-up space is coming back to pre-Covid levels.

Many top SaaS and Cloud companies are still maintaining offices -->

10 Common Blindspots When Hiring Your First Sales Team

# 1 - Don't hire a rep to sell before you can prove you can do it yourself. You have to prove it’s sellable first. You can’t outsource this.

Avoid these costly mistakes -->

This edition of the SaaStr weekly is sponsored in part by Terminus

To Have Great Support — All Of It Has to Be Great

A+ support is the killer feature any company can build, at any stage or scale.

But they have to have the will.

Why it’s rare remains a mystery of the ages to me

Map your customer journey from first contact through year 10 -->

Catch up on SaaStr Money

From the CEO of Chime to the COO of Plaid, to the CMO of Marqeta, the best of Cloud and SaaS in finance and money were at SaaStr Money earlier this week. Catch up on what you missed.

Watch now -->

Hot Jobs

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