Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 Even without any breakdowns, obviously the CEO was fully aware of the company’s increased spending in sales and marketing. What’s their new CAC Payback Time? The company grew their total spend from $390k/mo to $750k/mo during 2018.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Investing at a breathtaking pace. And he made an observation to me that I’d been thinking about for a very long time, but didn’t know how to express. In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. Second, hire the best management team you can as early as you can. 20×7, near as I can tell.

Part-Time VPE 280

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire AWS New CTO 280

CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Leverage in SaaS architecture, like financing leverage from the capital markets, only works when you have a plan to keep the learned improvements delivering value. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework Payment Methods CTO Hire Payment Solutions 130

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. 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. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

Part-Time VPE 211

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 211

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 123

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 123

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. You need to invest at least a year or even two years. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52