SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

ARR, Zendesk today gets 14% of new business from startups. You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team.

Startup 183

Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 183

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. Think of the business model behind being an independent board member.

Underperforming Technical Team 240

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 240

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

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. Travel is a challenging part of the industry today.

Merchant Services 179

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 179

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.

Strategy 98

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Application Development Mobile 98

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. For fast-growing businesses with 25-200 employees or more than 50 expense reports per month.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Payment Services 52