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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. Do you need your prospective buyer to connect your tool into their AWS account and then load in a ton of data in order for them to see the product in action?

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

I was the only manager, and I definitely didn’t know what I was doing. ” I talked to a staff designer, reached out, and actually staff.design is a website with interviews with staff designers, and it’s like, what is a staff designer? There’s definitely tech leads in our groups.

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Product Story telling in SaaS

Upscope

Definition of brand story telling: ". Definition of product story telling: "involves telling the story of a product – including why the company made it, some of the unique struggles they faced in doing so, and the changes it has made to their customer’s lives. Start with the pain point. Customer support is tough.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

This interview originally aired as Episode 229 on April 29, 2019. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Manny. If you ask Carlos, he would argue that a seller needs to be a hunter by definition. I don’t think I asked one question off the schedule, but a sign of a brilliant interview for sure.

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Product Story telling in SaaS

Upscope

Definition of brand story telling: " involves telling the story of the brand itself, humanising the story and explaining why the company was made and how it is differentiated from other businesses out there. We can't interview that many people and coax out the real issues so we need another way of finding those opinions.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. I mean, there’s definitely paths that are more well-worn. Jason : Yep.