SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

I’ve been reminded of this question in several meetings lately where founders are doing pretty well, getting to and past Initial Traction, but with hindsight it’s interesting that the founder that took the CEO gig perhaps was better suited to a different role, say CTO or SVP of Sales or President or COO or SVP Product.

Sales Recruiting 318

Sales Recruiting Venture Capital CTO Hire CTO 318

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. And hire against it. More here.

Part-Time VPE 278

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 278

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

Sales Hiring 133

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133

OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. CEOs will come and go along a startup’s journey, but there is only one founder [2]. Nothing can take that away. However, some do [5].

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game.

Startup 275

Startup CTO Hire Sales Hiring CTO Coach 275

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. David Skok is a serial entrepreneur who founded four companies and is a venture partner at Matrix Partners. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. [contact-form-7]. David Skok.

VP of Engineering 10

VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

” We had to do that three times. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. We’re starting to having lay people off.” And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

Sales Recruiting 178

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 178