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 300

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Venture Capital Fractional VPE 300

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 278

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 278

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

OCTOBER 17, 2019

People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results. Even if we decided to use bare-metal infrastructure, even if we decided to do everything ourself, we did try to lower our investment as much as possible. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment.

Scale 164

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 164

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 283

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 283

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

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Polis Pilavas , VP of Engineering at ChartMogul SaaS will shift to real-time personalization, enhancing individual user experiences by learning from every interaction, in an attempt to boost retention, increase satisfaction, and drive growth. Companies will scale faster with flexible solutions replacing rigid legacy systems.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Software Review SaaS Part-Time VPE 40