Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. What once took millions of dollars and a team of engineers to create, a lone developer could suddenly hack together in half an hour. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS.

AWS 189

AWS New CTO Scale CTO 189

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Cloud Platform, on the other hand, is in a very different set that also competes with Microsoft, but AWS is considered their biggest competitor in the market. What they’re seeing with GenAI and Google Cloud is an opportunity to grab share from AWS. Right now, 70% of the GenAI startups are using Google Cloud.

Cloud 244

Cloud Scale AWS AI 244

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Are you growing and want to scale? If you want to scale, you need to make the investment of time and money and make sure your infrastructure suits your size of business. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Unless you’re like Reilly Chase from Hostifi (sorry Reilly.). Have a plan. down the road.

AWS 115

AWS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 115

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Moats : how to develop competitive advantage? The PC increased GDP by 0.006%, according to NBER That alone should turn heads. Market : how to compete with incumbents?

Generative AI 212

Generative AI AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 212

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 25, 2021

On November 3rd, our co-founder Des Traynor will be on the stage sharing his keynote on “ How to grow up without growing old “ Later that evening we partner with AWS and Aircall for a “Startups Happy Hour” party, where you can decompress and have one (or a few!) drinks on us and celebrate a little taste of normality.

AWS 198

AWS Scale Innovation Startup 198

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The fastest grower scales to more than 600 people in 30 months. It also requires developing a layer of management in between the executive team and the rest of the employees incredibly quickly. During this time period, an executive team learn to handle these challenges on the job as they develop.

Headcount 168

Headcount Scaling Software Business 168

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. The bigger you scale, the harder this can be. A Misconception: Hiring Someone Big from Microsoft Will Help You Scale If you’re a founder or almost a founder, you want to hire people better than you.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Outsourced Development 205

SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing. Wow what a story!!

Azure 219

Azure AWS SMB Cloud 219

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? Next, they moved to credits, which are very popular, with AWS and Google Cloud being great examples of companies that are always giving credits out to startups. The bad news is there are a lot of companies developing VC partnership functions.

Startup 189

Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 189

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

That means understanding your ideal customer profile, developing enablement materials to close those customers, and training new account executives to succeed in that effort consistently. Different roles in a company may have different goals for channel development. Internal Clarity. The sales team asks for more leads.

Scale 319

Scale AWS Consulting Sales Enablement 319

SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2022

Jen Dawson @ AWS. Dale Chang, Operations Partner @ Scale Venture Partners (panel). Lars Nilsson, VP, Global Sales Development @ Snowflake. Dale Chang, Operations Partner @ Scale Venture Partners. Patricia Hanna, VP Americas Sales Ops @ Confluent. Shradha Kothari, Chief of Staff, SVP & GM North America Sales @ Twilio.

CTO 214

CTO Scale New CTO AWS 214

Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

FinOps, which stands for Financial Operations, combines the latest technologies and methods to help businesses scale their financial processes adequately and efficiently. Examples of cost management software include in-platform cost optimization modules like GCP Billing and AWS Cost Explorer. Image source 3.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 97

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

Software Review 224

Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It includes leadership development courses, and responsibilities of managing and hiring one or two reps to get experience. . When should you scale? Once you find your product-market fit, you figure out your GTM fit, and you are ready to ramp up growth and begin to scale. Instead, establish a scaling pace.

Sales Hiring 196

Sales Hiring Scale Compensation Sales 196

CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. For a deep dive, have a look at the AWS Definitions – SaaS Lens ; for a deeper dive, see the Google DevOps Catalog here. Or just drop us a line.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework DevOps as a Service AWS Traceability 130

The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Call me when it scales.” The point is that getting to $1-2 million in ARR probably has less predictive value concerning a company’s ability to get to true scale than most people think – or at least thought some years ago. Being a seed investor I’m trying to find SaaS companies that can scale before they have scaled.

Scale 192

Scale Scaling SaaS AWS 192

SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2023

But as you get bigger and more well-funded, participate in traditional field marketing strategies because they account for 40% of revenue at scale. You can run your own conference, but third-party events like AWS, Dreamforce, SaaStr, and others allow you to get 40% of your pipe from their ability to draw in the best in the industry.

Outsourcing Services 205

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Marketing 205

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams. What it means to Run Less Software.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS 130

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2019

5+ learnings for founders: Developers control a lot of spend today. We all know this from AWS and Twilio on down, but Fastly is a visceral reminder. Yes, Fastly is a developer-focused platform with $100k+ price points. Even developer-focused products don’t sell themselves, folks. Make it easy, folks!

Outsourced Development 215

Outsourced Development AWS Retention Enterprise 215

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While many gravitate towards major industry events for announcements, Joseph has a hot take (and we love a spicy take): do not announce a major new feature at a major industry conference (such as RSA Conference or AWS re:Invent). Now organizations can customize demos at scale even easier. You will get lost in the noise.

Sales Recruiting 99

Sales Recruiting Generative AI AI AWS 99

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. We’ve developed deep expertise in these technologies over time, and our architecture choices and implementation patterns are simple and proven. The foundation of our operational health is availability.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Management Systems Review 118

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This is the final episode of season two of Scale, our series exploring the minds of brilliant leaders and thinkers from the likes of Google, Yelp, and Udemy: folks who have each successfully propelled their company to a new stage of growth. are all-in on personalization and the massive potential to serve customers more intimately at scale.

Scale 181

Scale Marketing AWS Machine Learning 181

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

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. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle. Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team AWS Scale 52

Neil Patel

APRIL 8, 2021

On the other hand, a big multinational business may have a host of developers and IT professionals capable of handling more complex functions. Instead, they pay for access to infrastructure through the cloud through companies like AWS, IBM, and Rackspace. However, with PaaS, you also outsource runtime, middleware, and O/S.

Outsourcing Services 119

Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Azure 119

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. 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. Best For: Product Adoption.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Angela: One of the interesting things we notice about CEOs that are able to scale really quickly is that they often sit at the intersection of a few different worlds and are able to bring these trends together. And if we’re doing the right thing, we need to scale it quickly. So, very quickly we had to scale that too.

Payment Solutions 82

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 82

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Business Development Identify and assess partnership opportunities to drive growth Business Intelligence Turn data into insights to inform decision-making. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Sign up for free HERE !

Scale 179

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 179

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. We talked about growth.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks Back in the early 2000s, people didn’t entirely accept that a virtual machine could be as good as a physical one. Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks.

Scale 203

Scale Scaling AWS Sales Hiring 203

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. Due to our rapid growth, we needed to scale the team remotely before opening an office.

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Company Culture Scale Customer Support 149

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Developer relations, or DevRel, is a critical element of any SaaS growth strategy. Francesca Krihely , current Senior Director, Developer Experience and Growth at Snyk, was Director of Growth Marketing at MongoDB when the company built its first developer community. Building a developer community from scratch.

Marketing 54

Marketing AWS Scale Development 54

Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Innovation New CTO 52

BetterCloud

JANUARY 8, 2021

Achieving RBAC at scale. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , role-based systems “were developed by a variety of organizations, with no commonly agreed upon definition or recognition in formal standards.”. Achieving RBAC at scale. In AWS, these attributes are called tags.

Azure 52

Azure AWS Scale Technical Review 52