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7 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear That They Need to Hear with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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.

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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

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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.

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Building a Stellar Engineering Organization

SaaStr

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total. When we did this studies and where we were having to sign the contract with the AnyCasts provider, we took some time.

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10 Years In Tech

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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. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of 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. I had one year of Spanish in high school.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

Peter Kazanjy: Most of the literature is really for existing sales leadership or sales professionals, but not for people who have never sold before. So that’s why I ended up writing Founding Sales , and that led into Atrium, and also led into Modern Sales, which is the sales operations, leadership, and enablement community that I run.