SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2024

The best engineers and CTOs build and release better software faster than the competition. That placeholder for the VP of Finance never gets the financials done, and the VP of Marketing talks and talks but hasn’t ever worked with a sales team. When you hire that VP of Engineering who never learns the product, it doesn’t work.

Sales Hiring 311

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Venture Capital Fractional VPE 311

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

They’re able to actually swipe a credit card, and what starts off similar to a freemium self-serve product can turn into a six-figure contract in just a few months. It might even be months later that a VP of Engineering or a CTO or CFO realizes that they’re built on a new platform. The contract size grows.

Outsourced Development 214

Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 214

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

Part-Time VPE 296

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 296

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. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

Part-Time VPE 102

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

SaaStr

MAY 5, 2025

You know what I’m talking about: It’s the VP of Engineering who’s “still evaluating Windsurf and Cursor” but says it’s still a little bit early. The mediocre middle of go-to-market teams is about to be hollowed out, leaving only elite relationship builders and strategic consultants at the top.

AI 274

AI Fractional VPE Scale SaaS 274

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Like none of that would be possible, we’ve got a very strong engineering and product team. We all see the positive effects of having a great engineering team. As I mentioned, a good engineering team like challenges.

Scale 161

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 161

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Peter Kazanjy: So we really brought that to Atrium, in so far as another thing that humans hate to do is do metrics analysis, performance metrics analysis. Which is not great for your SaaS metrics.

Part-Time VPE 285

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 285