The 2017 State of Global Tech Salaries

For the second year in a row, Hired has tapped into its data to reveal insights into technology workers’ salaries and the hiring market more generally. This report also surfaces how age, race, and location impact salaries.

Here is Hired's Second edition of the Global State of Tech Salaries report.

From the Investors

Sundeep Peechu of Felicis Ventures expands on why he believes a better heuristic for early-stage companies is the revenue efficiency per dollar of spend in “Re-imagining the Rule of 40 for Early Stage Startups: The 70% Growth Efficiency Heuristic”

Scott Belsky of Benchmark finds that so much of building a business is about patience and pace and why, contrary to logic, you don’t want all of your customers right away in “The Right Customers At The Right Time”

David Skok of Matrix Partners breaks down a simple SaaS business model and identifies 12 key levers a CEO can pull to get the most impact in “12 Key Levers of SaaS Success”

Drew Beechler of High Alpha explores three key levers for late-stage growth for SaaS companies in a SaaStr Annual recap of What Changes at $50M ARR

From the Operators

Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar shares some of their internal documentation on company culture, an employee’s first day, and their perks and benefits, for other companies to model and learn from in “Opening Up Our Internal Handbook”

John Saddington of Pinpoint was recently reminded that early-stage products do not need to innovate on everything in "Familiar is Good"

Edit Harbaugh of LaunchDarkly shares techniques for grinding through the long stretches, making choices at forks in the road, and cultivating a mindset that’ll give you enough to cross the finish line in “Startups, Software Development and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance”

David Kellogg of Host Analytics describes why a CEO should want a CMO worried about the whole business and looking at it holistically and analytically in “The Evolution of Marketing Thanks to SaaS”

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

As required reading for Mattermark employees, I recommend you check out the new third edition of Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group. It provides entrepreneurs and startup owners with a definitive reference for understanding venture capital funding.