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We've spent the last few months speaking to hundreds of CIO / CTOs and senior IT decision makers. Many of the conversations were so similar that we came to the conclusion that presenting our conclusions here will give you greater insight into industry-wide challenges. MORE
Another day, another hack! Nutribullet, the blender and easy blended smoothie company, was hacked and their ecommerce online shopping store was injected with malicious code not once, not twice, but three times in the last 30 days! The malicious code helped hackers literally swipe away the credit cards numbers of Nutribullet customers. Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. MORE
Many a software testing company will claim to do everything and anything under the sun for you. MORE
This has been an incredible roller-coaster for us in SaaS and Cloud since March 15, for some even more than others, but an incredible amount of change for all of us. MORE
So you're on the hunt for test automation services for your web or mobile app, right? But what is it that you need, exactly? Have you defined your requirements or are you willing to be persuaded by the glossiest marketing brochure? MORE
Being a CEO changes you. Not at first. The first year or two are a lot like “before”, just more intense. Now it’s all on your back, and your shoulders. But over time, your brain does get rewired. You get focused. MORE
I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. In my first start-up, yes I sold to the enterprise. I sold $6m our first year (man, that sounds good looking back on it). MORE
Selecting a pen testing company will be one of the most important business decisions you will make. This decision will decide just how well protected your users and your brand is going to be from a cybersecurity perspective. MORE
These are crazy times. The economy has contracted at a record rate of -33%. Yet, the Cloud is on fire during Work-and-Do-Everything-Possible-from-Home. Shopify grew 100% at $3 billion in ARR. Zoom is growing at rates we’ve never seen before in SaaS and Cloud. MORE
In chatting with CEOs of SaaS companies, one topic keeps coming up over and over again: how do we cut our software testing costs? Or, if we can't reduce them, how do we tame the growth in our software testing spend? MORE
This story is newsworthy and even amusing because of the big sum involved - $32 million. But imagine, if you were in Hertz's shoes and the amount was only $3.2 million, or even $320,000 - would it still hurt if this happened to you? You bet it would! MORE
Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. MORE
If you squint as you read TechCrunch, you’ll notice a pattern in a bunch of articles about Hot Startups. “Bob worked at Pinterest for 8 months before he …” or “after a stint as senior something engineer at Facebook [12 months], Bill joined …” etc. etc. MORE
Software testing has often been an afterthought for CIOs , software engineering managers and software development teams. MORE
While the world is in panic mode and as we all get used to working from home regularly its important to remember that things will get better. MORE
Far too often we receive mayday calls from prospects who have invested a lot of money, but more importantly time, into selecting and working with a outsourced test automation services provider, only to be rewarded with a never-ending tug of war that inflicts much damage to their professional reputations. MORE
The quora hack proves that no company with web or mobile applications is safe from being hacked. Don't these words, uttered some years ago, sound so ironic and prophetic in this day and age: There are only 2 types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked. MORE
Digital transformations are a confluence of new ideas, grand plans, modern business models, high hopes and, often, very poor delivery and implementation. MORE
Leading agile project management teams can be challenging if you’re not using the right software to stay organized. Agile project management tools help you jump from daily scrums to your next sprint while providing your team with collaboration features to accomplish the common goal. MORE
Folks. DO YOUR 1-ON-1s. i know they arent always fun pic.twitter.com/Sb1BWxsWj3. — Jason ?BeKind? BeKind? Lemkin ?? jasonlk) July 10, 2020. When I catch up with founders on the march from $1m to $10m in ARR, the number one topic has always shifted to recruiting. MORE
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon have made the headlines for a while for crossing $1 trillion in market cap each. That’s crazy growth — almost all fueled by the crazy growth of the Cloud. No SaaS company is yet worth $1 trillion, through perhaps that is coming. MORE
Q:As a founder of a series A startup, was it unreasonable for me to use the company’s money for first class tickets? A European company was interested in doing a 7-figure deal with us and I paid $32k for 4 first class tickets. My VC is now mad at me. MORE
It’s a combination of habit, hygiene and ultimately, common sense. When you finish eating dinner at home, do you place those plates and cutlery back in the drawer or do you wash them? MORE
We’re approaching the age of 1,000+ Unicorns and despite a global pandemic, this remains The Best of TImes in Cloud and startups in general. But there’s a quiet cautionary tale to just think about. MORE
Are you looking for ways to optimise your eCommerce site for organic search? Let’s be honest - ranking your online shopping store on the first page of Google's organic search results is key to long term success. Getting organic traffic to your site is not that easy. MORE
The best salesteams seem to just do amazing things together. What differentiates them? Well, they do tend to work at some of the best companies, so there is that. But it’s more than that. A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. MORE
A little while back we put together some of the top sales & marketing mistakes SaaS companies and founders make, especially in the early days. I thought it would be worth a quick update of the post. We’ve all made many of these mistakes ourselves, myself included ?? MORE
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. But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. MORE
The inconvenient truth about developing a mobile app today is that hackers will find and exploit vulnerabilities in your app to steal data, demand ransoms, ruin your reputation and even destroy your business. MORE
358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. MORE
There are an unending list of reasons that compel SaaS companies and digital teams to ship each release at greater speeds. Your customers demand more responsiveness, your business demands more revenue and your competition isn't slowing down so why should you? MORE
In years gone the "freemium" model was the favoured one of marketing SaaS platforms that were trying to attract new startup or SME customers. Now even enterprises are willing to use "free trial" offers from new marketing SaaS providers in an effort to secure a winning edge on the cheap. MORE
Tom Taulli. Behind the Round with SaaStr: Chorus.ai Raises $45 Million. This week Chorus announced its Series C round for $45 million, which was led by Georgian Partners. This brings the total amount raised at $85.2 million. MORE
Q: What impact will the effects of covid have on the SaaS industry? Many of us in SaaS are really struggling now. Restaurants, events, recruiting, and so many other industries are in deep trouble. MORE
SaaStr has now passed 10,000+ pieces of content, and we’ve somewhat gone on a journey from the early days of a SaaS company, through the growth phases, to the Unstoppable phase, and now has time has gone on, even to the Decacorn phase ?? MORE
Sales is hard. And not only is it hard, but you shouldn’t be closing every deal you are in. Well, if you’re closing even deal you are, you’re not been invited to the deals where your product has competition. Where it has gaps. MORE
The pace of change recently has been breathtaking. Just a few weeks ago, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, was kind enough to join us at SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap. He said Slack wouldn’t be going back to the office until September. Now, just a few weeks later? MORE
Tom Taulli. Qualified.com , which operates a conversational marketing platform, has raised a $12 million Series A round (the total funding is $17 million since inception). The lead on the deal is Norwest Venture Partners and the other investors include Salesforce Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. . MORE
As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. MORE
OK so this I think the first negative or at least “bummer” post I think I’ve ever written on SaaStr in 8 years. We’ve been through ups-and-downs in SaaS since 2012 (the start of SaaStr), flash crashes, multiple contractions, as well as the crazy bull run of 2020. MORE
If you are running Oracle ERP applications without any test automation to help your teams, your headaches get bigger with every passing quarter. Oracle releases a few hundred critical patches for its suite of ERP products including JD Edwards, EBS, Sebel and others. MORE
Audacix
MAY 25, 2020
Are you looking for ways to optimise your eCommerce site for organic search? Let’s be honest - ranking your online shopping store on the first page of Google's organic search results is key to long term success. Getting organic traffic to your site is not that easy.
Audacix
MARCH 26, 2020
If you are running Oracle ERP applications without any test automation to help your teams, your headaches get bigger with every passing quarter. Oracle releases a few hundred critical patches for its suite of ERP products including JD Edwards, EBS, Sebel and others.
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Audacix
JANUARY 1, 2019
Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop.
Audacix
JANUARY 28, 2020
It’s a combination of habit, hygiene and ultimately, common sense. When you finish eating dinner at home, do you place those plates and cutlery back in the drawer or do you wash them?
Audacix
MARCH 20, 2020
While the world is in panic mode and as we all get used to working from home regularly its important to remember that things will get better.
Audacix
OCTOBER 24, 2019
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. But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app.
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Audacix
MARCH 23, 2020
Another day, another hack! Nutribullet, the blender and easy blended smoothie company, was hacked and their ecommerce online shopping store was injected with malicious code not once, not twice, but three times in the last 30 days! The malicious code helped hackers literally swipe away the credit cards numbers of Nutribullet customers. Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale.
Audacix
AUGUST 3, 2018
Software testing has often been an afterthought for CIOs , software engineering managers and software development teams.
Audacix
OCTOBER 5, 2019
As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them.
Audacix
JANUARY 9, 2019
The inconvenient truth about developing a mobile app today is that hackers will find and exploit vulnerabilities in your app to steal data, demand ransoms, ruin your reputation and even destroy your business.
Audacix
DECEMBER 9, 2018
The quora hack proves that no company with web or mobile applications is safe from being hacked. Don't these words, uttered some years ago, sound so ironic and prophetic in this day and age: There are only 2 types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked.
|
Audacix
DECEMBER 13, 2018
In chatting with CEOs of SaaS companies, one topic keeps coming up over and over again: how do we cut our software testing costs? Or, if we can't reduce them, how do we tame the growth in our software testing spend?
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
So you're on the hunt for test automation services for your web or mobile app, right? But what is it that you need, exactly? Have you defined your requirements or are you willing to be persuaded by the glossiest marketing brochure?
Audacix
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
There are an unending list of reasons that compel SaaS companies and digital teams to ship each release at greater speeds. Your customers demand more responsiveness, your business demands more revenue and your competition isn't slowing down so why should you?
Audacix
AUGUST 13, 2018
Selecting a pen testing company will be one of the most important business decisions you will make. This decision will decide just how well protected your users and your brand is going to be from a cybersecurity perspective.
Audacix
AUGUST 11, 2018
Far too often we receive mayday calls from prospects who have invested a lot of money, but more importantly time, into selecting and working with a outsourced test automation services provider, only to be rewarded with a never-ending tug of war that inflicts much damage to their professional reputations.
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
We've spent the last few months speaking to hundreds of CIO / CTOs and senior IT decision makers. Many of the conversations were so similar that we came to the conclusion that presenting our conclusions here will give you greater insight into industry-wide challenges.
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
Many a software testing company will claim to do everything and anything under the sun for you.
Audacix
JUNE 13, 2019
This story is newsworthy and even amusing because of the big sum involved - $32 million. But imagine, if you were in Hertz's shoes and the amount was only $3.2 million, or even $320,000 - would it still hurt if this happened to you? You bet it would!
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
Digital transformations are a confluence of new ideas, grand plans, modern business models, high hopes and, often, very poor delivery and implementation.
SaaStr
AUGUST 7, 2020
The best salesteams seem to just do amazing things together. What differentiates them? Well, they do tend to work at some of the best companies, so there is that. But it’s more than that. A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment.
SaaStr
AUGUST 1, 2020
This has been an incredible roller-coaster for us in SaaS and Cloud since March 15, for some even more than others, but an incredible amount of change for all of us.
SaaStr
AUGUST 5, 2020
OK so this I think the first negative or at least “bummer” post I think I’ve ever written on SaaStr in 8 years. We’ve been through ups-and-downs in SaaS since 2012 (the start of SaaStr), flash crashes, multiple contractions, as well as the crazy bull run of 2020.
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2020
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon have made the headlines for a while for crossing $1 trillion in market cap each. That’s crazy growth — almost all fueled by the crazy growth of the Cloud. No SaaS company is yet worth $1 trillion, through perhaps that is coming.
SaaStr
JULY 31, 2020
Being a CEO changes you. Not at first. The first year or two are a lot like “before”, just more intense. Now it’s all on your back, and your shoulders. But over time, your brain does get rewired. You get focused.
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2020
I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. In my first start-up, yes I sold to the enterprise. I sold $6m our first year (man, that sounds good looking back on it).
SaaStr
AUGUST 6, 2020
Q:As a founder of a series A startup, was it unreasonable for me to use the company’s money for first class tickets? A European company was interested in doing a 7-figure deal with us and I paid $32k for 4 first class tickets. My VC is now mad at me.
SaaStr
JULY 11, 2020
Folks. DO YOUR 1-ON-1s. i know they arent always fun pic.twitter.com/Sb1BWxsWj3. — Jason ?BeKind? BeKind? Lemkin ?? jasonlk) July 10, 2020. When I catch up with founders on the march from $1m to $10m in ARR, the number one topic has always shifted to recruiting.
SaaStr
JULY 30, 2020
SaaStr has now passed 10,000+ pieces of content, and we’ve somewhat gone on a journey from the early days of a SaaS company, through the growth phases, to the Unstoppable phase, and now has time has gone on, even to the Decacorn phase ??
SaaStr
JULY 31, 2020
Tom Taulli. Behind the Round with SaaStr: Chorus.ai Raises $45 Million. This week Chorus announced its Series C round for $45 million, which was led by Georgian Partners. This brings the total amount raised at $85.2 million.
SaaStr
JULY 1, 2020
Q: What impact will the effects of covid have on the SaaS industry? Many of us in SaaS are really struggling now. Restaurants, events, recruiting, and so many other industries are in deep trouble.
SaaStr
JUNE 27, 2020
A little while back we put together some of the top sales & marketing mistakes SaaS companies and founders make, especially in the early days. I thought it would be worth a quick update of the post. We’ve all made many of these mistakes ourselves, myself included ??
SaaStr
JULY 31, 2020
These are crazy times. The economy has contracted at a record rate of -33%. Yet, the Cloud is on fire during Work-and-Do-Everything-Possible-from-Home. Shopify grew 100% at $3 billion in ARR. Zoom is growing at rates we’ve never seen before in SaaS and Cloud.
SaaStr
AUGUST 6, 2020
358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers.
The Daily Egg
JULY 17, 2020
Leading agile project management teams can be challenging if you’re not using the right software to stay organized. Agile project management tools help you jump from daily scrums to your next sprint while providing your team with collaboration features to accomplish the common goal.
SaaStr
JULY 7, 2020
We’re approaching the age of 1,000+ Unicorns and despite a global pandemic, this remains The Best of TImes in Cloud and startups in general. But there’s a quiet cautionary tale to just think about.
SaaStr
JULY 15, 2020
Sales is hard. And not only is it hard, but you shouldn’t be closing every deal you are in. Well, if you’re closing even deal you are, you’re not been invited to the deals where your product has competition. Where it has gaps.
SaaStr
JUNE 15, 2020
The pace of change recently has been breathtaking. Just a few weeks ago, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, was kind enough to join us at SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap. He said Slack wouldn’t be going back to the office until September. Now, just a few weeks later?
SaaStr
AUGUST 5, 2020
Tom Taulli. Qualified.com , which operates a conversational marketing platform, has raised a $12 million Series A round (the total funding is $17 million since inception). The lead on the deal is Norwest Venture Partners and the other investors include Salesforce Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. .
SaaStr
JULY 23, 2020
If you squint as you read TechCrunch, you’ll notice a pattern in a bunch of articles about Hot Startups. “Bob worked at Pinterest for 8 months before he …” or “after a stint as senior something engineer at Facebook [12 months], Bill joined …” etc. etc.
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