Anything I should keep in mind when considering jumping from consulting to an SaaS startup? Outside of comp

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Ask about their current state of financing. What round of venture financing are they in, who are the venture partners, what’s the timeline for an IPO or acquisition, etc? If you join a startup that’s looking to be acquired or go IPO in the next couple of years, you may end up suddenly out of a job with little to show for it.

It's a strategy focused customer success role. Sounds like it falls into the risky category

I made the jump and recruited a bunch of ex-consultants over here. If you like the structure and methodology of consulting, it’s a culture shock. I’d ask about infrastructure, how products are delivered, what your role is and is not, to get a feel for what you’ll be immersed in daily.

I like it a lot. What I miss about consulting: everyone mainly lock step together or what we do, how we do it, and how we work with each other. In a tech startup I’ve found a lot of misalignment among departments and not a lot of appetite for “norms”. But that could be the stage of the company. Hard to justify spending time on infrastructure when you are barely covering customers. What I don’t miss about consulting: reinventing what we do and deliver for every project and then BSing our way through it. I love having a product focus! Will DM you re firm.

Ask how raises/promo and performance evaluations work. These are relatively standardized in consulting, but could be nonexistent in a startup.

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