SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. My real point is with the VP of sales you’re probably not going to get the perfect hire. Maybe you’ll get that in your VP of engineering or VP of product, possibly, your VP of marketing.

Sales Hiring 251

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 251

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 173

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 173

Tom Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

The graphs are broken out by last Series of investment (A, B, C and D) and show the equity compensation trends of CEOs, VP of Engineering and VP of Product. The chart above shows the trends in four graphs. The gray shadows around the lines represent the 95% confidence intervals. Venture capitalists.

Trends 100

Trends Fractional VPE Startup Part-Time VPE 100

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

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. ” Then it turns out that a VP of engineering doesn’t have time in their day to do searching, and writing outbound emails, and so on and so forth.

Part-Time VPE 193

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 193

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

Part-Time VPE 102

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

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

Engineering 132

Engineering Part-Time VPE Technical Review Fractional VPE 132

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. I remember talking with the VP of Engineering (at Carbonite) and basically saying, “Look, I’m sure I’ll figure it out. It’s a fantastic show.

Customer Success 58

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 58

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total. When we did this studies and where we were having to sign the contract with the AnyCasts provider, we took some time.

Scale 123

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 123

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 212

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 212

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. What I’m here to tell you today is that, it’s not only possible to build world-class, great development teams in places outside of San Francisco, but in actuality, it’s better. I had one year of Spanish in high school.

Engineering 129

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 129