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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower SaaS

Exploring new technologies? But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. What does the role demand? It might be.

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What were 5 distinct milestones that you encountered on the road to becoming a CEO?

SaaStr

Luckily, she worked in the same company and had co-invented the technology. To hire our CTO, our first VPE, etc. And to close $6m in customer contracts through founder-led sales. And to close $6m in customer contracts through founder-led sales. Fifth, I raised the money and built the team and closed the first customers.

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PODCAST 65. The Framework to Deliver Exceptional Customer Success w/ Kim Rose

Sales Hacker

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 didn’t know anything about technology and how it had changed from 1998 to 2006. With Conga you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute esignatures.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

SaaStr

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.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

The world of technology start-ups has been good to me—it’s provided for my family, it’s given me a wonderful amount of freedom to live my best life outside of work, and it’s been intellectually engaging and challenging throughout. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

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.