My personal notes for Hierarchy of SaaS Skills
From Startups for the Rest of Us, a podcast by Rob Walling
Robs four skills for starting a SaaS company are (in order):
- Marketing/sales: Which one depends on low touch vs. high touch
- Product: product development and design (what should you build?)
- Engineering: Writing and protecting g the code (how should you build it?)
- Hiring and managing: Hiring good employees and managing them well so they don’t leave
In other words, market first, product last. Nothing happens until you get someone to pay you.