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. Lastly, Pinterest grew adjacencies by making the product work better with interests in different local geos and in different categories e.g. travel vs. fashion. I have written more about platforms here.

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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. What we do is we’re a service for business travelers. Is that about the…?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 21, 2020

My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. But I do enjoy running an awful lot. I would travel around the world flying kites at festivals. But on top of that, I’m also working with the product management team on all the new initiatives coming up and figuring out how SalesRight and FastSpring will integrate!

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Travel is a challenging part of the industry today. Sam Blond: We have about 80 folks in the sales org, split between sales, development sales and then relationship management. We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We found something that works.

Merchant Services 189

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 189

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. If you don’t know what Rails is, it’s the development framework for Ruby. They were a small company. They came over and they met us.

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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. Your career is what you make of it.

Scale 130

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This way your road travel expense is not only tracked also maintained and can be budgeted for future expenses. The approval settings can be activated to allow trip requests with all travel plans and employment information before the trips take place. For on-road traveling, several mileage rates can be created based on vehicle types.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Merchant Services 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

There, you could separate Sales to Account Executives, SDRs, Sales Travel and other strictly sales related activities, while Marketing would contain advertising, promotions, conferences and so forth. Setting up Engineering (or Research & Development) is similar to the earlier section. Engineering.

Startup 81

Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Secure authentication mechanisms are necessary to enable easy development, prevent accidental data exposure, and protect against cyber attacks. The Zero Trust security paradigm, adopted by the US government and security giants like Google, Microsoft, and AWS, has secure authentication at its core. Related: Authentication Security.

Strategy 98

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Businesses and teams can save the time, money, and risk of developing their authorization and authentication solutions. Founded in: 1982.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

If you think about how you get to engagement, man, it sucks if you’ve got to do 25 one-hour meetings with, in pre-COVID days, the travel time and the laptop set up time. If you talk to developers, especially we talked to folks that have put significant products into production. crosstalk 00:27:38] engagement. Don’t they?

Sales Recruiting 172

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 172

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

They think about the hours in the office, and they think about the business travel. So, that will mean more distributed work, more video calls, less business travel, more hopping on just a quick sync with a partner as opposed to saying, “Hey, can I fly to you next week?” Is AWS in the lead? Is the Google in the lead?”

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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). Salesforce, which turned 20 in March, surpassed $13 billion in annual revenue this year. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

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). Salesforce, which turned 20 in March, surpassed $13 billion in annual revenue this year. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

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). Salesforce, which turned 20 in March, surpassed $13 billion in annual revenue this year. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

Scale 40

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. Apple used the iPhone to usher in a new business model, which let developers far and wide create applications and connect directly with consumers. Previously, travelers had to go through centralized companies like hotel chains to book an overnight stay.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

We know about Zoom and we know about Slack and we even know about AWS, but look at these other categories. Mobile apps and app development. These could be great companies, iconic companies, but if you’re in travel, if you’re in events, if you’re in similar areas, it will be years until things are normal.

Scale 199

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