One of the things I really enjoy reading is founders’ stories and lessons learned. We all have our own experiences, and when entrepreneurs capture them through books, blogs, and articles, I always enjoy reading their insights and takeaways. Lately, we’ve had two very successful entrepreneurs publish new, super in-depth content around their lessons learned, and they’re excellent.
The first entrepreneur is David Politis. I met David many years ago through the local Atlanta startup community when he was working on Vocalocity. After a successful run there, he started a company called BetterCloud and eventually sold it to Vista Equity.
Startup Founder Survival Guide: 50+ Rules to Live By… Learned the Hard Way
- Finding and hiring the best people
- Managing and motivating your team
- Raising money
- Getting the most out of your advisors and investors
- Product strategy and development
- Engaging and delighting your customers
- GTM motion and focus
- Operations
- Growing, evolving, and staying sane as a CEO
The second entrepreneur is Ryan Allis. Ryan is somebody that I had heard of many years ago through the Raleigh-Durham startup community. He started a company called iContact and had a great exit to a publicly traded company. Recently, he’s been promoting his new venture to help SaaS entrepreneurs, and as part of that, he published a great resource called the SaaS Growth Playbook.
- 1,200 slides
- Focused on B2B SaaS
- Part one – SaaS Growth $0 – $10M ARR
- Part two – SaaS Scaling $10M – $100M+ ARR
Entrepreneurs would do well to read both the Startup Founder Survival Guide and the SaaS Growth Playbook.
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