CTO Hire Engagement Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 
SaaStr
MAY 27, 2024
Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. Jason Lemkin discusses why pricing is worse than ever for startups. The Qualities of Great CTOs (00:15:54) To identify great CTOs, it may take interviewing 20 candidates. Is it sustainable?
SaaStr
OCTOBER 24, 2022
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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Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In part, my shift in thinking could pertain to not being the “front man” handling the pitch. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Playing the right roles.
User Pilot
JULY 27, 2023
Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2021
My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He would time after time point to an area that I had completely missed. ” Cannot put a price on that. Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days.
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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!
SaaStock
MARCH 29, 2019
Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Thanks for everyone who took the time to write their impressions and share with the community. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. Work on developing your brand.
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