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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. His journey from consultant to coder to fintech founder offers a masterclass in what he calls “asymmetric outcomes” strategic bets where the potential upside dramatically outweighs the downside.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? Do you have any existing hosting relationships?

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower SaaS

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation? Are you ready?

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The Top 200 SaaStr Annual Speakers: CEOs and CXOs of Klaviyo, GitHub, OpenAI, Cohere, Rippling, Notion, Calendly, Loom, Plaid, Rubrik, Webflow and So Much More!

SaaStr

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

JFrog is the pioneer of Continuous Software Release Management, or CSRM. Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. JFrog offered 11.6

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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

Software is better, and AI makes it more so. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. To win, you have to hire hackers and tinkerers who love working on the bleeding edge of technology. If they aren’t sure how to integrate AI into your product, ask if you need a new CTO.

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