Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The internet revolution led to the dawn of the executive era, where on-prem developed into on-demand, with factors like ROI and KPIs entering the picture. Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. So pick accordingly. #1

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Julien, who previously directed business development and partnerships at Microsoft and is on the board of French media giant Le Monde, was perfectly poised for a conversation at the SaaStock conference in Dublin that ranged from the different missions within Facebook to why he’s betting big on chat.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I’ve launched multiple companies, and I know that when you choose to turn a vision into reality, you’re committing to investing seven to fifteen years of your life in the project. In my experience, the most viable and successful ideas sit at the intersection of two types of innovation. Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. To “soften the beach,” you need to expend as little energy and investment as possible while learning as much as possible. Invest in and put that into the market to start softening the beach.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Aaron : And they just have to do it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During those 30 years as an Open Source platform, multiple developers and professionals adopted and contributed to it to the point where, today, Linux is everywhere—supercomputers, AI, IoT, embedded devices, and so on. For the first twenty employees, we were working on developer relationships. Key takeaways.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. Here are mine: Maximize collaboration and communication between developers and system operators. It is focused on making collaboration between developers and operations engineers (ops) easier, faster, and safer.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are the top 15 venture capital podcast leaders shaping the industry with their visionary and thought leading podcasts covering a range of topics from startups, investments, trends, interviews, and more! He invested in more than 20 early-stage companies. You can also watch most episodes Live on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Tables have turned because I first met Mikkel when just after I was working for previous fund index, he had just invested. I think it’s one of those things that you forget how quickly things have developed. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. It was 7, 6 years. Mikkel : Sunshine.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Flex is a finance super app built around a credit card with unique Net-60 day terms that enables businesses to make an investment today and pay it back 60 days later with zero percent interest. Fora is an innovative executive relationship management (ERM) platform poised to transform C-suite decision-making through cutting-edge AI technology.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A good product with lousy support is the same as an awful product with good support in terms of customer retention. And as the world innovates faster than ever before, customer perceptions become even more critical. The best way to develop a strong relationship with your customer is to engage with them through social media.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. Salesforce AppExchange: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Growth from Salesforce. Maintaining an innovative edge. Then you move on from there.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

But it is really incredible and inspiring to see how these companies and these cloud leaders have ushered in this new phase of innovation and growth, even in the hardest moments of society. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering. For years, it barely registered as it was building.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. Invest in your development internally and externally. “My greatest professional achievements are deeply rooted in the development of the teams I’ve led. Joyce Johnson. Hang Black.

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Frontegg

MARCH 22, 2023

We’re excited about the way innovations in Passwordless tech, such as Passkeys, have improved both user experience and security! The user experience with passwords is never good and can be downright awful. A couple examples: A known user (an app developer) has already logged in with their Passkey from a familiar location.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

Prior to founding Outreach, Manny spent 7 years with Microsoft where he ran the Latin America and Canada business development group for Microsoft’s emerging mobile division, representing $50M of yearly revenue. Innovation is about empathy with your customers. How does Manny fundamentally approach managing top of funnel?

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . Tackle’s survey found that 70% of sellers are ready to invest more in marketplaces as a go-to-market strategy.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I think that storytelling is a bit of a lost art in software development and we’re starting to rediscover it. And it’s like, when you look at those trying to innovate in serving newly remotely teams. And she’s been super helpful since, but most of our relationship does predate investing. Harry Stebbings: Cool.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me. Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

Our data centers are shut down, but as I was telling you earlier, AWS barely existed when we started our transformation. Took out millions of dollars and for every dollar we returned to the company, we got to keep 20 cents to do innovation work. Casey: And you guys still made it work. Peter: We did. Casey: Oh wow. Why did you do that?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: As you were saying that, I was thinking about a time about 10 years ago now, I got to visit a city design studio, an innovation lab type place for a fairly well known car company. Des: Kings of Ajax.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” For hardware, this can comprise testing and manufacture; for software, it’ll include the whole development cycle. If only that statement were as true as it seemed.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more. Facilio Inc.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

If you spend much time in the startup and tech ecosystem, you’ve probably heard the term “disruptive innovation” more times than you can count. But not all companies that are commonly known as disrupters actually fit the traditional definition of disruptive innovation. Innovations are mischaracterized as disruptive. 3D Printing.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

From the early days, our founders, we had three amazing founders, Tim, Isaac and Jose, who had this great idea to solve this what turned out to be a ubiquitous problem that every developer building an app had. We had created an incredible brand with developers, in particular, and created developer love for what we did and the product.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

For some context, Base10 is a research-driven investment firm focusing on companies automating the largest sectors of the real economy. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation. Microsoft is a master class in strategy for us.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. It’s still really hard.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. I also think that career paths and developing those are really, really important to help people stay motivated and really feel they’re growing in their own careers. The CIOs tend to… The innovative ones are all in.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The second is really the how to think about your crew, really, how to take care of your crew, how to up-level your crew, how to invest in them, how to listen and engage them, and then also how to think about your extended crew. ” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that. Look at Shopify.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

If you think back about the developer work, the pager duties and data dogs and snowflakes that are just building this awesome value under the covers and maybe, if you’re more SAS centric, you don’t think of them, top of the mind, in the same way, but just fantastic businesses being built. Twice for retail. So, what does that mean?

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