User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Why most SaaS companies are blind to some of the best talent on the market By Geoff Roberts 9 min read I believe that most SaaS companies are missing out of a major opportunity when hiring—the opportunity to hire more part-time help, where the employee acts as a fully integrated (albeit part-time) member of the team on an ongoing basis.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Yet they live on borrowed time. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. And in a recent episode with Marques Stewart, vice president of technology at Achievement First, he briefly reflected on how he got promoted. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

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. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. How to improve DevOps culture?

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

I follow DHH and Jason Fried on Twitter and generally find myself agreeing with their often-contrarian points of view. Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. In those days, most software development happened using the lumbering, ultra-heavyweight waterfall methodology.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

* Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Is there hiring decisions? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

365: The Office of the Future, How Everything’s Changed and What 2021 Will be Like with Justin Bedecarre, CEO @ HelloOffice and Jen Nguyen, Founding Partner @ TEAMWERC. Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. Aaron Levie.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. Let there be tasks Since the dev team wasn’t handed a list of tasks, they need to develop their own. The identified slice needs to be small enough to execute in a few days, and if possible, something novel, new to us. And shipping!)

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

Before starting Thnks, Brendan was a technology and media veteran. He’s spent more than 17 years focused on sales, product, and client development. During his time as a sales executive at Orion Trading and MiMedia, Brendansaw a need for a digital bridge that can be used to initiate and foster interpersonal relationship.

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