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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower SaaS

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. But everyone’s situation is unique.

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FinOps Debt. Like Technical Debt; Only Worse.

SaaSOptics

Most in the software world have heard of ‘technical debt’ (thorough exploration here by Martin Fowler) but a short definition from Wikipedia is: the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer. . But our developer has a deadline tomorrow.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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How To Get SOC 2 Certification For Software Companies

Audacix

With a SOC 2 report, businesses will spend less time performing due diligence as part of the sales cycle. It's one of the last steps on your journey to building a culture of security within your software development team. It signals to your customers that your software is safe for them to use."

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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.

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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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What Not to Do in B2B Sales — 7 Signs You’re About to Kill the Deal

Sales Hacker

There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. But only if you have the capacity or if your product is specially developed to solve their problems. A few months back, our marketing team was considering buying a tool for organizing our blog editorial calendar.

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