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If You Don’t Have a Truly Great Founding Team, Just Take a Pause. Don’t Start Your Start-Up Yet.

SaaStr

But what they don’t have is a good enough founding team: Sometimes, if the prospective founder isn’t super technical, then the CTO/VPE isn’t really great. They’ve got a rent-a-CTO. Or sometimes they are great, but the team members are just not great enough for their new C-level roles (CEO, CTO, CMO, CSO, CBO, C?O).

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

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At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time. jason Lemkin : I think 50 is the new, the new number for me. At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right?

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GTM 132: The Rise of the Operator with Casey Woo + Special Announcement

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He is a seasoned, multi-stage operator, bringing over two decades of experience in investment banking advisory, public equity investing, high-growth operational and military leadership roles. So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. They might be new.