SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. It meets the needs of their business and applications. Most software developers are skeptical. Why should they care?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

In fact, many founders and CEOs struggle with simply talking to their engineers and communicating their needs. The mysterious nature of engineers is also their superpower as they build products that make the seemingly impossible possible. At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second.

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FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

How new global laws like the European Accessibility Act will impact digital businesses. If you’re a founder, marketer, or product leader looking to grow your business while doing the right thing, this episode is a must-listen. It’s also good from a legal perspective for businesses. Thanks for doing this.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Deeper Bio: Early Life and Education Graduated with a Computer Science degree from The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo Demonstrated early interest in technology and software development Served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Intelligence Corps, where he developed technical and leadership skills Early Career Began career as a software developer (..)

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2021

No engineering, no code! Accusoft is a software development company specializing in content processing, conversion, and automation solutions. Don’t miss this business-changing opportunity to connect with 10,000 SaaS decision-makers from all over the world. Within minutes.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Click here for Divvy’s Seamless Expense Management Platform for Businesses. Divvy is a seamless expense management software combined with the world’s smartest business card giving your company total control of finances. ChartMogul’s Free-Forever Launch Plan for SaaS Businesses. What are they all about?

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise. Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As engineers, one of the fundamental things we have to learn is the extent to which we can break things – how do we get the right balance between shipping safely and shipping fast? Almost 3 years in as a product engineer here, I have changed my perspective. As with everything in engineering, things are not black and white.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re in the modern era of software development. Traditional waterfall methodologies of the 80s and 90s are transitioning to more iterative agile development, and with that a DevOps culture has emerged. Companies are shipping software faster and more frequently, a shift that requires tools that can keep up.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

At Click Ventures, Carman uses her impressive skills to lead companies on the right path, with an unheard of failure rate of funded businesses – below 10%. She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. Hooi Ling Tan is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

She joined GitHub in 2015 after a career in the public sector, and has since held leadership roles in nearly all aspects of GitHub’s enterprise business. The impact of AI on GitHub’s business and the future of software development. 30:58) The future of AI in business and the emergence of the Chief AI Officer role.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. And by the time I was 20, I had sold that business to a local builder. Norman: Yeah.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 26, 2016

In 1967, Harvard Business Review rejected a paper submitted by Mel Conway. He worked on the Pascal compiler among other notable software projects. Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. So, small teams of developers can become nearly fully independent of the larger engineering organization.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 28, 2023

I’ll let you in on a secret: Of all of the widely known scarce commodities in the world—oil, gold, lithium, palatable Justin Beiber songs (sorry, bro)—high-quality software developers are the shiny stars at the top of the list.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2024

Going Higher Up the Stack It’s crucial that you’ve got several different software development kits and APIs that help you embed that AI into specific applications, products, and solutions. CrushBank is seeing support engineers onboarding faster, increasing the number of help desk tickets to close, and decreasing the time to resolution.

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Neil Patel

MAY 6, 2021

If you’re interested in business and marketing, at some point you’ll learn about the need to have a unique selling proposition. How will a unique selling proposition help your business? So what exactly is a unique selling proposition, and how will having one help your business to succeed? Let me explain.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

UiPath was founded back in 2005, and its origin story is similar to many technical engineers-turned-founders. He brought that approach into building his business, and it didn’t work. They went to India for a few months to develop a prototype and realized this was where the market was.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Full stack developers are a coveted breed. They are dynamic, versatile, and have the ability to overcome a wide range of engineering obstacles. We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

Table Of Contents The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. How does DAST work? Number of user roles in your application.

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Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Unlike consumer Internet products, SaaS products are essential business tools. You want to try things that will systematically improve SaaS customer alignment and move your SaaS business closer to product-market fit. Agile software development has seen wide adoption throughout the software industry.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST scanning tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. How does DAST work? Number of web services that require security testing.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Cultural alignment within an engineering organization is necessary, but not sufficient. Read more about this in my prior post.

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IT World

JULY 3, 2023

Apple last month released the first beta version of the software that powers its upcoming Apple Vision Pro headset, visionOS, plus the visionOS software development kit and a simulator. We’re already seeing pictures and videos of Vision Pro apps online long before the $3,499 spacial computing device ships.

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User Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

TL;DR Technical product management combines business acumen with technical expertise to drive the development of products. On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. We know that conversion rates for SaaS and software companies will vary by 30% or more just based on the checkout experience. Eric McGee Senior Network Engineer, TRGDatacenters.

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 13, 2023

Why can’t we escape hands-on cloud operations work to unlock software development nirvana (aka frictionless, faster development and deployment processes)? Put another way: you could make your software stack serve both specific business needs and general-purpose platform tooling. But it’s not a no-brainer.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? It’s increasingly impossible to imagine a SaaS business without a firm commitment to DevOps thinking. DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Let’s look at how we know how well we are doing that.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Swimm, a cutting-edge continuous documentation solution provider, is helping engineering teams work in harmony and focus on innovation. We were sure that there was a better way to onboard software developers faster and help them ramp up code-wise to achieve instant traction and eventually success. Series A funding round.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2013

If a product sells itself, the business wins free customer. I’m ignoring software development costs and opportunity costs to develop features that may not impact PQL and sales performance directly.) PQLs pull product and engineering into the fray. Everyone in the company has the same goal.

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Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. Additionally, if you’re working at a small business or start-up, it may need someone to wear multiple hats. This is why businesses need innovators in their marketing departments. When you think of coding, your next thought probably isn’t digital marketing.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. While product managers are more customer and business-centric, technical PMs focus on the technical development and implementation of solutions. What is a technical product manager?

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

Finally, you need to do it quickly, because if you’re not competitive, your customers can and will take their business elsewhere. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Engineers may have a hard time unlearning long-held beliefs of attaining perfection in the application.

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