SaaStr

JULY 18, 2022

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. Companies must prove they have the growth, revenue, and users to warrant serious talent. Career Growth.

CTO Coach 212

CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO CTO 212

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

Underperforming Technical Team 119

Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 119

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 Cost of Revenue Let’s start with your Cost of Revenue. The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. Jason Cohen breaks down the question in his Quora post.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Over the past decade benchmarking software and SaaS companies , I’ve had the chance at OPEXEngine to work with hundreds of amazing Finance execs who work incredibly hard at getting the right data to support their company’s goals. SaaS Finance Benchmarks. Ability to accurately benchmark key metrics against peers and market leaders.

Finance 40

Finance CTO Hire Headcount SaaS 40

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. It can be hard to convince PE firms to invest in the customer. How did you get your PE colleagues to invest in the customer experience? We hire a third-party firm. Find the hardest problems to solve and you will succeed.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? 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. This episode is sponsored by Brex.

CTO Hire 132

CTO Hire compliance Scale Startup 132

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Only when some metric goes off the benchmark can you know something is wrong. These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts. The idea is to provide customers with value to keep them invested with the company. Whatever suits the customer would be the right time.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review Systems Review Business CTO Hire 10