SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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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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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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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

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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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. It helps to protect your customers' business. A cloud server, like an AWS EC2 instance, is still a server. Great question.

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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. What were the business lines that you were in? Jeff: Yeah.

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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. Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

While discussing some of my philosophies on open source with a friend recently, they asked me a great question: “When does open source make sense for a business?”. Open source can provide a number of different advantages for a business, on both the consumption and production end of the spectrum. That’s tough to answer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

And so, many business leaders find themselves not quite sure how to start, how to leverage it, or what to do when all the dashboards and tools seem to be pointing at different solutions. However, we’ve had a great team. The fact of the matter is that data science, as a field, is still relatively new. What data can and can’t do.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

These stand for software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Many business owners do not know the difference between these offerings and are therefore unaware of which option is best for their company. Let's take a quick look at what it means to use software, platform, or infrastructure as service.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

But as the initial wave of the pandemic winds down and everyone prepares for the impending next wave, there is rising uncertainty for businesses around what that next wave will look like and how it will impact them. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. I’m sure you have too.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Tidelift has raised over $40M from some of the best in the business including Foundry Group and General Catalyst. 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? As for Bridget, she has the most incredible track record.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

In this talk, Michelle will share how she made her business idea come to life and some lessons learned that can help other entrepreneurs—from solving a real, meaningful problem, to communicating in a crisis, prioritizing when there’s a true lack of resources and more. Michelle : Yeah. Michelle: That’s exactly right.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In reality, many devices and computing systems have weak or ineffective authentication, or authentication is not properly configured by administrators, resulting in severe security risks. Secure authentication mechanisms are necessary to enable easy development, prevent accidental data exposure, and protect against cyber attacks.

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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. How the hell does that happen?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

With the emergence of product led growth , a business strategy that puts the product front and center in how companies acquire, convert, expand and retain their users, it’s more urgent than ever to revisit freemium. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? When is freemium the right strategy for your business?

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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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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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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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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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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

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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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

“I’m a bit closer to business owners from the 50s,” he admits — a time when he believes creating an enjoyable work environment was more highly valued. In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. They were creating ERP software for Mac users.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. Corey works with his customers on reducing their AWS bills, and he’s seen large numbers of cloud architectures in practice, so I think he’s a pretty good source on this.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What I’m going to do is talk a little bit about what we’ve seen over the course of the last year and then also talk about some metrics we track or we encourage our founders to track as they’re building their businesses, and then, lastly, try to go through a few predictions for the next couple of years.

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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. A SaaStr Classic!! million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.).

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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. You can read the podcast transcript below. They had to reinvent themselves.

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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.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

To date, Airtable has raised over $170m in funding from some of the best in the business including Thrive, Coatue, Founder Collective, CRV and individuals like Patrick Collison, Ashton Kutcher and Raymond Tonsing to name a few. As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

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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 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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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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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. Now it’s table stakes.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 3, 2020

This year we thought we would do something a bit different and frame this as a conversation between two pricing leaders, Kyle Poyar, VP, Market Strategy here at OpenView, and Steven Forth, Partner at Ibbaka, a strategic capability development platform that enables sustainable growth. The value proposition can change over the customer journey.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. There is a problem if you and your business are still relying on paper trails and old-school bookkeeping to manage your expenses. There is no need to separately learn how to use a particular software, it’s that easy!

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

I’ve also had more than 10 years of CMO experience, including a good run at Business Objects where I ran marketing as we grew from 30 million to over a billion in revenue during a nine-year period. Do I have the right team? So second question, do I have the right team? Do you have the right team for you?

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