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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower SaaS

But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Closing the Gap: Hiring A Fractional Startup CTO We’re not suggesting that early-stage startups should hire a full-time CTO.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

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.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

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.