Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

And then we try to do just a final presentation or some kind of exercise if it’s engineering or coding exercise and then we basically make the offer contingent on references. We’re basically you’re not getting. Before you wake up the next morning, you know whether we’re moving forward. Yeah me also.

Sales Recruiting

TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 7, 2023

But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Closing the Gap: Hiring A Fractional Startup CTO We’re not suggesting that early-stage startups should hire a full-time CTO. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap.

CTO Hire

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

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Some of these “heroes” put on a nice public facade, but behind closed doors are downright entitled and unethical—especially when presented with an opportunity to make a buck. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

Part-Time VPE

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011.

Engineering

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. 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. Harry Stebbings. Pete Kazanjy.

Part-Time VPE