Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. Obviously, I can’t imagine a chief executive not having loss of sleep over building a management team. Mallun : Sure.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. We’ve built some exciting new features into Intercom using this new GPT technology and have given access to several hundred customers – and the response has been astounding. Our team has been using the new AI Inbox features a lot.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. You’ll find out tomorrow.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. And that is precisely the gap that a strong fractional CTO can fill.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I imagine when you’re working with companies like those that you’ve consulted with over the years, you end up repeating many ideas over and over. Laura: Exactly.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This is if companies opt to use an independent consultant. Therefore, many companies opt-in for an independent consultant to perform the audit. What happens if you add new services or locations? This means companies spend less on consultants and internal resource allocation, thereby lowering the overall ISO 27001 cost.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. You need to know as much about your audience as possible so you can find them where they are and know how to communicate with them. You can’t just open a website and expect people to flood in.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Krahl brings more than 25 years of experience in integrated payments partnerships and sales across verticals such as healthcare, government, and technology companies, including senior level roles with Elavon, TSYS, and at his own successful consulting firm.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33]. The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Oh, and do all of this with less time. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Are they hiring?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. I’m Travis Bryant.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

RevOps is still developing as a function, so people with a lot of different experiences, like moving from engineering to marketing for example, find RevOps to be a great place to put their problem solving skills to work. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Why most SaaS companies are blind to some of the best talent on the market By Geoff Roberts 9 min read I believe that most SaaS companies are missing out of a major opportunity when hiring—the opportunity to hire more part-time help, where the employee acts as a fully integrated (albeit part-time) member of the team on an ongoing basis.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. One other thing would be talent pickup.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. SaaS pricing is one of the most important (but difficult) decisions a new business makes.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I’m sure many of you use New Relic.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back in 2019, I launched ThinkFractional.blog and took advantage of the opportunity to learn a new platform – Ghost. I decided on the same approach this time around – take the opportunity to learn something new, state of the art, and very different. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. And that’s been some of the most fun parts about it. Show Agenda and Timestamps.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. This is not new. So what is new?

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. I’m finding that when writing in my blog, I can now create imagery on the fly without bogging down the process.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

This is your chance to minimise your tech footprint by refactoring applications to work on common environments and reducing the number of moving parts. This is a great time to share these learnings across team and functional boundaries. This functionality set in software delivery tools is not a pipe-dream. It's available now.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? I personally find it surprising that a SaaS company’s forecast may often include such an expense breakdown – as it should – but the company’s actuals are a mere black box. Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. Finding space in a crowded category. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. in debt to buy out their investors.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time. Sales enablement is easy. So what did that mean for us?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despina is one of the most proactive and inspiring PLG experts you can find today. Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Growth Consultant, SVP Marketing at HubSpot. Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). 5 – Keiran Flanagan.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Find innovators (10:36).

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Find nothing—vacuum. Drill down on the current AI emergence, find so much that, like me, you’ll have trouble even keeping up. When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Once burned, twice shy. But … AI’s not like crypto. Drill down on crypto? When the rules of the game change.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Co-founder Marketing Consultant Full-time Head of Marketing Here’s an overview of how the trust building process has differed in each capacity. Marketing Consultant As a marketing consultant , I’ve played roles ranging from strategic advisor to independent contributor to interim head of marketing.

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