SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

She can be your CTO forever. That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO. You’ll find a way to be decent at some aspect of marketing in the early days on your own (PR, virtality, growth hacking, outbound, cold calling, who knows). 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

She can be your CTO forever. That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO. You’ll find a way to be decent at some aspect of marketing in the early days on your own (PR, virtality, growth hacking, outbound, cold calling, who knows). 95% of the time, your super-smart hacker co-founder is not that person.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But a great head of demand gen (or maybe growth hacking if you are SMB) should be very accretive at even $20k in MRR. No matter how great a hacker your CTO is. This will seem crazy early to many of you. Imagine you are organically growing 4x, so from say $200k in ARR this year to $800k by the end of the year. Wait longer?

Part-Time VPE 363

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SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2019

Not hiring a good enough CTO. Expecting magic growth hacking solutions. Yes, some B2C and even some B2B products do experience magic virality and magic growth hacking. Growth hacking is real. Even if you don’t like sales, or big companies, or whatever. SaaS is so competitive these days.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Stewart’s tips on growth and finance have enabled growth and learning in readers. Pierre Lechelle is a SaaS marketing expert who helps companies drive more revenue using growth hacking. Dharmesh Shah. Pierre Lechelle.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. This is marketing.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So first, I think the thing you just described is a growth hack without saying I did it to a growth hack. Shaan: Right, unintentional growth hack. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

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