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Building a Startup for the first time is HARD.

There are hundreds of problems to solve, and numerous demands on your time. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and there are so many ways you can fail. ForEntrepreneurs is designed to help. Written by David Skok, who has over 40 years of experience building successful startups (and some failures which have provided great lessons!), the blog covers topics that will help entrepreneurs and startup management teams. It has a primary focus on SaaS and recurring revenue startups where the nature of the business is quite different.

9 Steps to Startup Success

How to take your startup from idea to repeatable, scalable and profitable growth. Includes discussions of common mistakes - and why it is impossible to skip steps.

SaaS Metrics & Business Model

The SaaS business model and metrics, including the post "SaaS Metrics 2.0" which became the definitive article on this topic, used by SaaS investors, CEOs & CFOs.

Building a Sales & Marketing Machine

How to build a Repeatable, Scalable and Profitable Go-to-Market machine.

Product Led Growth

How to delight buyers and use your product as your entry point to land in a customer

Recruiting & Building a Team

How to build a recruiting machine, and attract the best talent

Open Source

How to build a successful Open Source business

Fundraising

Popular posts on the topic of fundraising

Other Topics

A collection of popular posts that don't fit into the above categories

David Skok is a five time serial entrepreneur, turned venture capital investor at Matrix Partners. David started four companies, and did one turnaround before joining Matrix. David has also been an early stage investor and board member at companies like HubSpot that have grown to over $1Bn in revenues. His focus is B2B software, including SaaS, Open Source and infrastructure software.

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Three years ago I spent a lot of time looking at SaaS business intelligence companies. I loved what I saw in the demos: easy data connections, slick looking graphs, powerful drill down tools and custom dashboards made the tools look like no-brainers. And then I began my diligence calls.

Sales & Marketing Machine

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