Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

It provides findings and recommendations intended to foster a mutual understanding between business and software leaders, shedding light on the current state of your technology and your team. This part of the report can go deep on how your software stacks up with respect to feature delivery, security, reliability, and scalability.

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SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” If your customers love your product now, hire reps. 10. “Your job as an entrepreneur is to find hard problems to solve.” ” A good reminder to us all.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. Overcoming these cultural challenges requires a concerted effort to change the way the organization thinks about technology and its role in the business.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. The blog needed a new name, but I also working on naming the new entity, and realized it might be possible to find a name that would work well for both. And did I mention that I learned HTML and CSS along the way?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 5, 2015

In what fraction of cases does the founding CEO remain at the company? They typically became Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer or Chairman of the Board. I’m also thrilled that the dilutive impact to founders who hire someone else to lead their company is minimal.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. I’m finding that when writing in my blog, I can now create imagery on the fly without bogging down the process.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Why most SaaS companies are blind to some of the best talent on the market By Geoff Roberts 9 min read I believe that most SaaS companies are missing out of a major opportunity when hiring—the opportunity to hire more part-time help, where the employee acts as a fully integrated (albeit part-time) member of the team on an ongoing basis.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! With the sheer volume of queries arriving in the Inbox, it can be difficult to find the right words. This saves us a ton of time and enables us to assist even more clients.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need to know as much about your audience as possible so you can find them where they are and know how to communicate with them. Finding the right online channels and creating the right messaging to drive traffic is probably the hardest part of running an online business. Now, go read a Seth Godin book. You won’t regret it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. So I was doing environmental consulting.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? I personally find it surprising that a SaaS company’s forecast may often include such an expense breakdown – as it should – but the company’s actuals are a mere black box. I’m not a CPA or a lawyer, and you should consult with yours before making any permanent changes to your books. ‍

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

We tend to find that there are three key technology initiatives that we can help our customers with when they’re undergoing a digital transformation. Hire builders who are experienced, strategic, and agile. So, good luck with your hiring efforts. First, a little bit about New Relic. You may have heard the name.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. We chat with Maggie about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despina is one of the most proactive and inspiring PLG experts you can find today. Growth Consultant, SVP Marketing at HubSpot. Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Speaker, Writer and Founder of Product-Led Growth Hub. Follow Her on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Facebook. 5 – Keiran Flanagan.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

This is your chance to minimise your tech footprint by refactoring applications to work on common environments and reducing the number of moving parts. This is a great time to share these learnings across team and functional boundaries. This functionality set in software delivery tools is not a pipe-dream. It's available now.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Don’t chase the trivial things.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. The company even took $2.5M

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. finding teams or teammates that can best resolve an incident).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Karim Atiyeh, CTO & Co-Founder @ Ramp.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Amy Pisano, CRO @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. You’ll find out tomorrow.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Why do some experts consider QBRs to be a waste of time? These are the primal questions you will find answers to in this article. Business consultants Human resource Consultants Lawyers Accountants. QBRs ensure that companies deliver customer outcomes in a timely manner by encouraging meetings and conversations.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. You become a hired CEO primarily through one path — climbing the corporate ladder at a large tech company [5a], reaching the GM or CXO level, and then deciding to branch out. First-time CEOs. Thankfully, most founder/CEOs don’t need to be reminded of that.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Harry Stebbings.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Anything that you can find that cascades through the organization is critical.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And the other thing we do is we show them their LinkedIn connections, so you can find somebody you already know.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33]. The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Oh, and do all of this with less time. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Are they hiring?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He is with Sixteen Ventures, a consulting firm that helps grow SaaS companies. Omer Khan is a business consultant who helps SaaS companies through his company SaaS Club. Steli Efti is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Close.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Fix technical debt when you find it, and the code will be ready for change when the next boy or girl scout arrives. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). Look out for FrankenCloud How can you tell when you live on a Frankencloud?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. One other thing would be talent pickup.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. Find out here. The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be. Should your company make its pricing public?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I imagine when you’re working with companies like those that you’ve consulted with over the years, you end up repeating many ideas over and over. Laura: Exactly.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time. Sales enablement is easy.

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