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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower SaaS

But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap?

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. What I want to talk about today is perhaps the mistake that most of us make, by my nonstatistical study, 70 percent of us make, which is not hiring the right VP of sales. It’s a cash-driven business.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me. The business benefits aside, the real benefit of remote work is it’s simply a better lifestyle for most workers.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

Peter Kazanjy: So at TalentBin, that was kind of like my first training wheels, SaaS business, and also the place where I started to learn and appreciate go to market. So I went from being a business generalist founder, so prior to that I was in product marketing and product management at VMware, so big enterprise software company.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

SaaStr

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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