SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. We had created an incredible brand with developers, in particular, and created developer love for what we did and the product. ” I didn’t do all those things. I won’t lie.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Who sales development should report to (spoiler: it’s marketing). Who should sales development report to? [15:20]. We talk about the history of marketing, who sales development should report to, all of it. I have about 140 folks and that includes the sales development reps. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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