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SaaStr
JANUARY 19, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Makes a Bad CTO? While there is no legal definition for CTO or bright line between CTO and VPE, I’d suggest a start-up CTO really only has to do a few things — which are very hard: Assemble a small team (3–9) of very good engineers.
TurnKey Labs
MARCH 6, 2023
Knowing how to hire a CTO is one thing—knowing when to hire a CTO is another. If […] Scaling CTO for hireThe fact is, not every company needs a Chief Technology Officer.
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SaaStr
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Many companies believe excellent product design comes from hiring the best engineers and signing up for the latest software instead of building from the users’ perspectives. Despite all the advancements in technology, creating a product with a great user experience remains challenging.
Valerian Tech
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis.
Valerian Tech
JANUARY 5, 2023
It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.
SaaStr
JUNE 26, 2022
Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Be Careful Hiring “Dualies” — Folks That Are a VP of More Than One Thing. SaaStr 564: Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High Throughput Critical API with RevenueCat CTO Miguel Carranza.
Valerian Tech
DECEMBER 14, 2022
There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.
SaaStr
JUNE 16, 2022
Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . Instead, the CTO suggests that you avoid adding new pieces of infrastructure until absolutely necessary.
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.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m He asked which to hire first. If you have a few nickels in the bank, and you somehow find a great VP a half stage or even full stage early, just hire her. Hiring is so hard as it is. Make the hire now.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Anyhow the one thing I learned, beyond getting help screening and hiring for these positions from domain experts, is to look for Flags. For signs the prospective hire just won’t work out, no matter how strong they might look on paper. And I’ve learned again and again, including quite recently, there are 4 types of hires to just avoid: CEOs. And I do think there’s definitely room for one architect in your start-up: one to step up as your CTO or VPE.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Perhaps the single most important thing you can ever do in SaaS, at least after $1m in ARR or so, is hire the best VPs you can. We’ve talked a lot over the years about how not to hire a wrong VP of Sales — 70%+ of the first VPs of Sales don’t make it even 10 months.
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. Access to experienced technology leaders One of the main benefits of fractional CTO services is access to experienced and knowledgeable technology leaders who can provide strategic guidance and support for your business.
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. So the title of my presentation is The Playbook To Hiring Your First VP Of Sales And Not Screwing It Up. These are foundational hires.
SaaStr
JANUARY 16, 2023
Hiring a reliable team is an all-encompassing issue where startups dive in head-first but fail to optimize it for success. . Hiring an expert produces 1000x better results than someone with interests elsewhere. . “A Blog Posts Company Culture Hiring Leadership Videos
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? You will need to promote and hire more mid-level managers. . CTO (40 Employees).
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.
SaaStr
MAY 16, 2021
But what they don’t have is a good enough founding team: Sometimes, if the prospective founder isn’t super technical, then the CTO/VPE isn’t really great. They’ve got a rent-a-CTO. At least an acqui-hire.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
They’ll revolt when you make a senior or mid-level hire that as a group, they simply cannot suffer one day longer. But I forced us to hire him, over my CTO’s strong objection and my VPE’s grudging acknowledgment we had no choice.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Hire not just 1-2 reps, but 10. But I’ve found many great SaaS founders take longer, too long, to decide to hire the other VPs. My CTO and dev team is building all the features we need. Can’t I just hire someone to help the sales team?
SaaStr
MAY 3, 2021
But even if you’ve hired the world’s best VP of Sales … you can’t opt out of sales entirely. You can’t just exit “marketing” because you hired a VP of Demand Gen. Hire a VP of Finance or even a CFO Early if You Are Growing Quickly.
SaaStr
JULY 30, 2020
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SaaStr
APRIL 7, 2021
The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. That CTO that doesn’t quite have the traditional background. Don’t hire those.
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. I think this will be one of the next major hiring trends that you see in the world of SaaS start-ups.
OpenView Labs
APRIL 12, 2019
Getting hiring right is absolutely critical. I’d like to talk about two different companies with two very different approaches to hiring post-seed raise. To get the team started we hired several junior developers. There is a binary feeling that comes from making those first few technical hires. We worked hard to backfill with senior hires, but there were challenges. We needed a CTO. So why didn’t we hire senior first time? Let’s talk about the CTO.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2021
Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. Now we have to hire VP marketing who has enterprise experience.”
SaaStr
APRIL 28, 2020
In fact, right after that we hired a roundtrip employee as our CTO in my first start-up and it was amazing. First, what doesn’t work, or at least hasn’t for me, is re-hiring: Folks that left for a company that was a better fit. Roundtrip hires can work.
SaaStr
JULY 23, 2021
Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Dave Walters, CTO, Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success, Hired. Amy Pisano, CRO, Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO, AgentSync.
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2021
I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees. Hiring people at a startup is pretty darn similar. If I had friends, either those friendships withered or I hired them for almost nothing to come work for BlackLine.
OpenView Labs
MARCH 17, 2020
When you ask average questions, you get average hires. If a potential senior hire has gotten so far as to talk with the CEO , she’s probably someone the company wants. Related: Are You Hiring for Culture Fit or Culture Add? Read more posts about hiring at startups.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. And critically, most have a really strong CEO-CTO partnership. A few general learnings: A VP of Product that Reports to CTO / Engineering Rarely Meets With That Many Customers.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. They hired good people. They hired good managers.
SaaStr
MARCH 5, 2023
Almost all of them had an amazing CTO or CPO, and hired a simply epic VP or two. Dear SaaStr: What Qualities Make a CEO The Best In Their Industry? I’ve invested in 5 start-ups that had a $1,000,000,000+ cash exit or IPO. The CEOs were all quite different.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today? Why do they have a hiring committee?
SaaStr
MARCH 5, 2023
Ode to the $100,000,000 Exit Dear SaaStr: Should You Hire Someone That Seems Good … But Always Job Hops? SaaStr 636: Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe CTO David Singleton 5.
SaaStr
AUGUST 2, 2020
I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Early Fundraising Hiring Leadership Podcasts blackline founder's favorites therese tucker357: Therese Tucker breaks through the dogma behind what it takes to build a successful tech company.
Valerian Tech
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project? Stay up to date on industry trends: The cryptocurrency industry is rapidly evolving, and it is important for the CTO to stay up to date on the latest technologies, trends, and best practices. What is CryptoCurrency?
OpenView Labs
OCTOBER 11, 2019
At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. This is why, when it came time to shift from a transactional to a subscription pricing model, our team at Hired didn’t hesitate for a moment. At Hired , we help top R&D, engineering, and tech talent find jobs they love. Some may say that we had unusual advantages at Hired as we embarked on this pricing project.
SaaStr
JULY 3, 2022
The Ultimate Guide for Hiring a Great VP of Sales. SaaStr 565: Classic Episode: The Importance of Company Values, a Great Hiring Process, and Ownership Culture with Gusto Co-Founder & CEO Josh Reeves.
SaaStr
APRIL 18, 2019
And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And the wave we’re riding at G2, the wave we’re all riding here at Saster is this fourth industrial revolution which really means everything in business is being automated and companies rather than hiring people they are now automating everything. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin.
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