In my last post (So You Want to Work for a Startup! (Questions to ask)), I talked about a few early startup milestones that you, a prospective employee at a startup, should know about. I covered the following milestones:

1. Corporate vision defined
2. Initial product focus defined
3. Potential customers interviewed
4. First prototype built
5. Feedback from prototype incorporated

In this post, I’ll talk about the next few milestones any startup should be meeting, and, as a prospective employer, should be able to answer questions about. As before, I focus on a certain category of SaaS businesses, but the general principles apply broadly.

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