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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. Focus on retaining your engineers from day one. Empower your engineers to excel in their roles.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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When we interview potential developers, we’re always amazed at how many can’t answer basic programming questions. New features always require significant rewrites, and consequently a lot of time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It’s hard to know if a developer is an A, B or C player, or a player at all.

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80 Founders Share The Moment They Knew … When They Really Had Something

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” — Jason Riedel, founder/CTO of Aspireship. “When on New Year’s Eve, customers kept sending us signed contracts.” “When customers get back $100k’s in minutes and want to pay us more” — Kanat Bekt, founder/CTO, SupplyPike. 20% conversion. ” — Drew Naugher.

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If You Don’t Have a Truly Great Founding Team, Just Take a Pause. Don’t Start Your Start-Up Yet.

SaaStr

But what they don’t have is a good enough founding team: Sometimes, if the prospective founder isn’t super technical, then the CTO/VPE isn’t really great. They’ve got a rent-a-CTO. Or sometimes they are great, but the team members are just not great enough for their new C-level roles (CEO, CTO, CMO, CSO, CBO, C?O).

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

If the PLG strategy is implemented well with a quick time to value, the cost of acquiring new customers and upselling the customers provides for a very efficient business model.”. Finally, I had a Zoom interview with JFrog’s Yoav Landman, who is the co-founder and CTO, and Jacob Shulman, who is the CFO.

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

SaaStr

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Jason has sat in on interviews with 50-100 VPs of Sales, and many of them don’t even know what the product was in their 4th or 5th interview. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. Let’s jump right in.

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

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You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. In this interview, David Sacks talks about how 70-80% of investor time is spent looking at AI. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. During the interview process, ask them who they’ll bring with them. It’s up to you.

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