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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

It distracts the team from writing new features + fixing bugs. You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Like, really expensive. Have a plan. down the road.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc. Google, Microsoft, Apple).

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Jul 27 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Turn/River Capital As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the leadership teams at 2 to 3 of the Turn/River portfolio companies to develop and implement retention and growth strategies and build operational best practices.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Employee Spotlight: Bill Wilson, Senior Director of Product and Kite Designer

FastSpring

Get to know the fantastic team behind the ecommerce platform! Right now, I am spending most of my time with the Halifax team working on the SalesRight product roadmap and trying to build out all the features and functionality that our customers need. My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. Invest in your development internally and externally. Your career is what you make of it. Joyce Johnson.

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