SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. It’s also been a powerful moment for technology to be a force for good. It is staggering.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to the financial numbers that get thrown around in start-up land—I don’t care what TechCrunch says, I don’t care what your market cap is—I think it’s clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. How the hell does that happen? We mostly succeeded.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the event that there is an issue, it’s resolved quickly by the managed WordPress hosting support team. A customer identifies a problem or makes a request, and WP Engine’s support team gets it done. They also have partnerships with other companies like Cloudflare, AWS, and Let’s Encrypt.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

The world of technology start-ups has been good to me—it’s provided for my family, it’s given me a wonderful amount of freedom to live my best life outside of work, and it’s been intellectually engaging and challenging throughout. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Suffice it to say, new laws and changes in technology have made EHR systems essential. This so-called “ pajama time ” has become an awful reality for every physician stuck using a well-intentioned but poorly-performing EMR system. Their Switching Team will help you import everything and live support is included with every plan. #4

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The biggest challenge facing the insurance industry worldwide in the next two to three years will be the pressing need to update businesses and technology. Nonetheless, insurance companies’ poor adaptation to the new environment was demonstrated by the many feature drops experienced by mobile sites.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

SaaS ensures that consumers are always up to date with the latest version, while also ensuring that developers have a continuing source of revenue with which to maintain their product. Platform as a service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete environment for development and deployment over the internet. What is PaaS?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Open-source communities typically fall into one of two buckets: user communities or developer communities.

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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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

It doesn’t matter what the size of the team is, they can do it all, plan projects, conduct meeting, and multi-task. Teams need to collaborate for ideas, execute projects, and increase knowledge to cultivate stellar work. This is why teams and organizations prefer Ayoa because it takes online collaborative whiteboards to a new level.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While Mixpanel is scalable, its pricing can be high for large teams or heavy data users, starting at $24/month. UXCam focuses on mobile app analytics, providing session recordings, heatmaps, journey mapping, funnel analysis and crash analytics to inform product design and development decisions.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While Mixpanel is scalable, its pricing can be high for large teams or heavy data users, starting at $24/month. UXCam focuses on mobile app analytics, providing session recordings, heatmaps, journey mapping, funnel analysis and crash analytics to inform product design and development decisions.

Software Review 52

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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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Customer Advisory Group for feature suggestions and direct facetime with the Product and Engineering teams with priority access to features and planned deployments. Fyle has devised a system for payments, which our whole team found very helpful. Fyle runs on AWS.

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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. Then I got into distributed computing, peer to peer technology. There we go.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : I think for many of our organizations, we’re automation, we are technology. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team? I mean, literally.

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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. Joyce Johnson.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

For people, goods, processes, and technology to offer a compelling and cohesive customer success approach, the company’s operational model needs to be realigned in the Age of the Customer. It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. It helps me and the team be so much more productive. And this year I came back to work and had so many emails in my inbox the number was scary.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, we’ve had a great team. They could solve that by saying, “Hey, let’s put our product in more data centers in AWS,” or in whatever hosting product they were using. It’s not like, “I’m going to get really good at this particular thing.” Academics are paid to do that.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. B2B companies like Hivebrite and Equilend trust TriNet to help handle the infrastructure of their workforce, so their teams can focus on execution. And I think what we’ve seen with technological shifts is that it’s always a huge changer of jobs.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works? What does not work?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Who sales development should report to (spoiler: it’s marketing). Who should sales development report to? [15:20]. We talk about the history of marketing, who sales development should report to, all of it. I have about 140 folks and that includes the sales development reps. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. We were one of the first agencies where you can develop a program in in the US and carry that program over to the Chinese market, and we would just do a great job.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 13, 2024

We also often overwhelmed the database leading to poor frontend response times. upgrade the instance type on AWS), but they’re expensive and optimally we’d like the system to self-regulate. You can have multiple processes per instance , which will typically live somewhere in the cloud, for example as an AWS EC2 instance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re short on time, here are some quick takeaways: From Superhuman to bedside lamps, we look at the products and technology that defined 2019. We each take a look back and try to pin down our decade-defining technologies. Direct to consumer (D2C) businesses have taken off. Des: What do you think that represents?

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

A couple of them our team did. Working as a apple tech was awful but for the rude customers I would put on hold while I went outside to chat with co workers or grab something from the vending machine. Constantly looking at the clock during calls, thinking when will it end!! What can we learn from this? Its a tough job.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

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