SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2024

That placeholder for the VP of Finance never gets the financials done, and the VP of Marketing talks and talks but hasn’t ever worked with a sales team. When you hire that VP of Engineering who never learns the product, it doesn’t work. There is a 0% chance it works. Founders need to be honest about it, though.

Sales Hiring 311

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Venture Capital Fractional VPE 311

Tom Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

On average, founders retain 30-33% more equity than 4 years ago through those first two rounds of institutional investment. The graphs are broken out by last Series of investment (A, B, C and D) and show the equity compensation trends of CEOs, VP of Engineering and VP of Product. Venture capitalists.

Trends 100

Trends Fractional VPE Startup Part-Time VPE 100

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

Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. The lack of self awareness is real.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

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. They were engineers who invested in properties and over time built what is the foundation of the platform, and then over the years it has grown and scaled to what it is today.

Customer Success 71

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 71

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. Second team there worked on data engineering. What I’m here to tell you today is that, it’s not only possible to build world-class, great development teams in places outside of San Francisco, but in actuality, it’s better.

Engineering 184

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. 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. That’s my background.

Sales Hiring 290

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