SaaStr
JUNE 7, 2021
I was a software developer, a product person. Six months from now, we could be out of business. We’re trying to win business, and the guy in the back of the room stood up and said, “We have more people in this room than you have in this company. I specifically didn’t want to be a CEO. crosstalk].
OpenView Labs
JANUARY 12, 2022
Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. But, we’re all in the problem-solving business, right? Traditional business schools teach students that they have to choose one position and stick to it.
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OpenView Labs
MAY 20, 2021
The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. Employee engagement skyrocketed, and the firm met or surpassed 4 of 6 criteria of the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work. I kinda like it.
Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth
MARCH 23, 2020
One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. It has a compounding effect - the more good decisions a business makes, the better the results will be. He is famed for saying, “In business I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats.”
BetterCloud
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
But we are passionate about helping IT contribute as much value to the business as they can. And if they buy (from a SaaS vendor, at that), they can devote more time to strategic initiatives that drive the business forward instead. Additionally, research shows that in 2015, only 29% of in-house software development projects succeeded.
Outseta
JANUARY 20, 2020
In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. When I left Buildium five years later we’d grown from a start-up to a business with more than 12,000 customers and $16M in revenue.
Crafty CTO
APRIL 12, 2020
The Basecamp guys have been busy lately. Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. Big as in a 143 page PDF.
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