Weekly Digest #97

Articles

Ways to Expand Your SaaS Business

• Go Up-Market
• Go Down-Market
• Expand Product Lines (Same Buyer, Same Industry)
• Expand to New Industries
• Adding Services
• Expand Geographically

Six Tips for Staying Technical as a CTO

1. Be a Voracious Reader (you need to be able to consume data outside of meetings, and you have to learn to absorb information quickly)
2. Code As a Hobby
3. Participate in Hackathons
4. Hire Well (It takes an enormous amount of time to run a team. If you have the wrong people in the wrong roles, then leadership takes even more time)
5. Create a Team of Tech Advisors
6. Clear Out Bugs and Backlog

Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum

• Management is not a promotion, management is a change of profession. And you will be bad at it for a long time after you start doing it. If you don’t think you’re bad at it, you aren’t doing your job.
• You may have struggled to get your first opportunity to manage a team. But it’s a whole different story once you’ve done the job. Now you have the skills and the…