Tom Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

I received a lot of comments about the analysis, and in particular hypotheses to explain the data. I dug a bit deeper into the data set to find an explanation. On average, founders retain 30-33% more equity than 4 years ago through those first two rounds of institutional investment. Venture capitalists.

Trends 100

Trends Fractional VPE Startup Part-Time VPE 100

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. The lack of self awareness is real.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Something that we did really poorly at TalentBin early on was not really focusing on a very crisply defined ICP and insufficiently investing in customer success. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc.

Part-Time VPE 187

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 187

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’ve close to 3,000 server distributed in more than 70 data centers and we are between 200 and 300 billion API call amounts. People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results. So we have one API, it’s crucial data. We then flip the company to the US.

Scale 120

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 120

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. This is what we did.

Part-Time VPE 206

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 206

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. They were engineers who invested in properties and over time built what is the foundation of the platform, and then over the years it has grown and scaled to what it is today.

Customer Success 58

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 58

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. For roles like mobile engineers or data engineers, we tried to hire a database administrator for a long time and struggle with that. Second team there worked on data engineering.

Engineering 128

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 128