TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 7, 2023

But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap?

CTO Hire 390

CTO Hire New CTO CTO Fractional VPE 390

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

Outsourced Development 214

Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 214

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 296

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 296

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me. 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

JUNE 25, 2019

But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. They were a small company.

Engineering 184

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

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 71

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 71

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. They know how to the close to develop the relationship. My real point is with the VP of sales you’re probably not going to get the perfect hire. I’ve made a bad VP of Sales hire. How do you do this?

Sales Hiring 290

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 290