Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Table Of Contents Security testing tools are crucial in software development lifecycles because they empower you and your software teams to shift left and help your developers proactively detect and mitigate security weaknesses which can be a security threat if left unattended. AWS, Azure or GCP.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. 2 It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog.

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Generative AI AWS AI Artificial Intelligence 245

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle. Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Now, you don’t have to own all that software.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 78

ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. You and I both know how awful it feels to have someone disregard what we say and focus on their end goal instead. According to Will, this specific type of role playing helped CSMs develop stronger and deeper relationships with their customers.

Retention 97

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, we’ve had a great team. They could solve that by saying, “Hey, let’s put our product in more data centers in AWS,” or in whatever hosting product they were using. It’s not like, “I’m going to get really good at this particular thing.” Academics are paid to do that.

Data 151

Data Airlines AWS Underperforming Technical Team 151

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

These stand for software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Let's take a quick look at what it means to use software, platform, or infrastructure as service. Software as a service (SaaS) is when a provider hosts an application and makes it available to subscribers over the internet.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. While Userpilot is developing funnel analysis functionality, you can achieve the same results by tagging and tracking Goals. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria.

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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 is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

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DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. And we’re not all building the most mission critical software, but our stakeholders don’t want to rip us out.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software. 7 Tips for Successfully Introducing Freemium Business Software. Some of the top software companies in business today use freemium models to engage customers.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

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? So what we do is we help manufacturing and industrial companies comply with environmental regulations using our software platform. Want to see more content like this?

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 155

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. They’re a very important part of the team. Is that about the…?

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 238

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. The cloud software industry has changed. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. We are more or less a business consulting company as a software consulting company that as there are many outside, but we are specialized in Apple users, helping Apple users. They were creating ERP software for Mac users.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

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 I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

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 I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

It doesn’t matter what the size of the team is, they can do it all, plan projects, conduct meeting, and multi-task. Teams need to collaborate for ideas, execute projects, and increase knowledge to cultivate stellar work. This is why teams and organizations prefer Ayoa because it takes online collaborative whiteboards to a new level.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Payment Methods 52

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Do I have the right team? And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. ” Right?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Startup 117

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment. Planning is guessing.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of product analysis is to better understand its strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate how effective it is at satisfying user needs , and to identify areas for improvement. Product analysis benefits teams from across the organization, including your product , marketing , customer success , and UX design colleagues.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Retention 98

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. Our first brand client in China was Intel.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 141

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works? What does not work?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 200

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Iceberg is an open table format developed by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks (2 of the 3 co-founders of Tabular) while they were at Netflix.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? ” I’ve never heard that.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 292

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. Joyce Johnson.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 218

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. We could translate the software into Spanish.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Getting Started with SaaS App Development. Going the Amazon Web Services (AWS) route? instead of Python.

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ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97

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. She’s the head of marketing at an HR software company called Bamboo HR. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 80

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. Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. What are some of the benefits of open-sourcing your software? Sometimes, open-sourcing your software can open a floodgate.

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Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52