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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. What factors beyond financials makes a target even more valuable. Jump to highlights.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent with Snowflake Global Director of Market Intelligence Guan Wang (Video)

SaaStr

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. API vulnerability scanner API security testing ensures business data packets that move between two software applications and ip addresses are secure.

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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When Should You Upgrade CS Software?

Totango

Whether you’re not using a customer success platform yet or you’re using an aging CS tool, there comes a time when you need to upgrade CS software. They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.