Modern startups are on an assembly line from seed to later-stage series financing. As they make
that journey founders need to have a working knowledge of dozens of fields if they're going to
scale a company. SaaS is a unique set of skills across those disciplines. This book focuses on
gaining a working understanding of what specialists will do in those fields as an organization
grows and how founders can leverage the basics to get those capabilities started so once
professionals are hired in each they can hit the ground running with authentic materials.
Founders will be pulled in a lot of directions as they find success so the book looks at what
to do with each discipline at each stage of growth. The hardest part to creating a startup is
to just start the thing. This book covers when to bootstrap apply to accelerators seek seed
capital - and where to do those things. It also covers some of the earlier questions like how
to write a mission statement where to find investors what technical stacks to use how to HR
how to sell and more importantly when a founder should spend time on each discipline. A way
to look at the tech stack and the ever-changing landscape to keep technical debt low and the
ability to respond to ever-changing market forces high. What You'll Learn The nuts and bolts of
which type of corporation to found impacts to taxes equity and of course more philosophy.
Researching pricing and planning to take that wonderful innovation to market and expanding
into a portfolio. Leadership styles-each has its place and so we look at ways to level up that
domain Management-going beyond inspiration from those regularly scheduled meetings to helping
people grow to task managemen. Basic accounting and finance skills with terms and guidance on
revenue treatment Who This Book Is For People thinking of or starting asoftware SaaS company.
Could be useful for first timers or those on their third startup.
