SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

That can be fine for an API or similar service, but I find it a big trade-off for an enterprise SaaS or one with significant customer-facing features and workflows. Most VPs of Eng want Product to be their partner, their wing person, to go out and do the external work, and then be their partner in deciding what gets built.

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Part-Time VPE Outsourcing Services CTO Hire CTO 293

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Okta is one of the more interesting Cloud and SaaS leaders, growing from its early roots as one of several Cloud identity vendors, to the break-out leader, to expanding its product profile to developers and customer identity, and more. It shows the size and scale of Cloud continues to just shock us. And really, beyond.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 29, 2022

I am from, XXXXX XXXXX a 350+ member, Certified partner with multiple Global IT vendors PEGA, Microsoft, Oracle, TOSCA, Google. We have centers of excellence in Cloud, Custom Software Development, DevOps, PEGA, SaaS, AI, Data warehousing, Data Analytics, BI, and Testing. Subject : Lavender Size: Are you outsourcing?

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Healthcare Software Development 80

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The arrival of cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS etc. Outsource Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting. Outsource undifferentiated heavy lifting. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Cloud computing is dominant. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups.

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Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

So we’ve crossed about 67,000,000 total views on Quora and almost 400,000 followers to our Cloud Daily! Why are founders and startup employees expected to take minimal salaries while VC partners rake in $500K-$1M per year plus carry? How much does a VC partner earn? there, but our classic Answers still perform well.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel. Modern companies are born in the cloud, and independence is in their DNA. It’s the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built.

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Outsourcing Services SMB Acquisition Scale 111

Incredo

JULY 8, 2019

“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits them and sells itself.”. Digital marketing agencies usually write about what a company will receive after partnering with them or why a company should choose their services over another agency’s services. Let’s dive in! #1

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Sales Hiring 200

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This helps you to: Reduce human error Override Quickbooks suggestion engine Human error is particularly prevalent with outsourced accountants without a bookkeeper dedicated to your company. What remains a problem is the engine grouping all expenses from the same vendor under one account. Here you add the vendor.

Banking 52

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

When investing in third-party SaaS applications, you still need to assess estimated returns, implementation, and staff onboarding and training costs but not development or maintenance costs – that’s on the vendor. SaaS vendors handle these aspects for you – you just pay the subscription fees.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Some of you may have even looked towards options for supporting tools for your SaaS development including customer service solutions, a CRM, analytics programs and one project management tool or another. Integrating these features as a service into your MVP will leave you time and resources to focus on your core business.

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 98

BetterCloud

MARCH 27, 2024

The transformational journey of a construction firm A prominent building systems firm’s acquisition of a mechanical contractor presented a unique IT challenge: integrating a company reliant on outsourced IT into a unified system. The solution lay in leveraging automated workflows for IT onboarding and offboarding.

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Technical Review Outsourcing Services Onboarding Systems Review 52

OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

Ambition for continuous learning and improvement, ambition to better support Finance’s business partners in other parts of the company, and ambition to affect change/improve the company’s results. The BenchmarkEngine is a secure, cloud-based platform to compare company performance across all departments of a typical SaaS or software company.

Finance 52

Finance Outsourcing Services Scaling SaaS 52

Think Strategies

JUNE 11, 2018

In the old information technology (IT) world, systems integration and consulting companies flourished, helping enterprises of all sizes across nearly every industry pull together a plethora of proprietary systems from a wide array of software and technology vendors. Despite the promises of the cloud, not much has changed.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The best payroll services help you automate paying your employees and simplify the entire process, so you can gain more control over how you spend your time. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. How to choose the best payroll service for you. How to choose the best payroll service for you. Number of employees.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

The US market during COVID-19 is one such market where global expansion, and the need for some local workforce or partners, is both a risk and opportunity. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Transportation 67

OPEXEngine

JUNE 14, 2022

Comparisons of direct hire vs outsourcing models. OPEXEngine is the pioneer and leader in SaaS benchmarking, used by SaaS vendors, investors, and service providers. The benchmarks help technology executives invest in R&D with more confidence by comparing their own costs and performance with similar organizations.

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Technical Review Benchmarks Outsourcing Services Development Team Review 45

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. Who do we outsource to?

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Competitive service offerings and new technologies are driving down costs to maintain SaaS infrastructures. Eric Mersch, CFO and partner at FSG puts it this way: “The methodology for reporting subscription gross margin is so well established that using a non-standard approach will cost you several multiples of ARR in valuation.

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Outsourcing Services Trends Outsourced Development Technical Review 53

Neil Patel

APRIL 8, 2021

Cloud computing has taken over in recent years, and it offers many opportunities for businesses and users. Along with PaaS and SaaS , these acronyms describe the different ways businesses can use cloud technology, and choosing the right one for your e-commerce store can make a big difference. Today, 90% of businesses use the cloud.

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Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Azure 119

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

VCs are always on the lookout for the next Lyft, so they strategically partner with founders who they believe will provide them with a 10X return. Since startups are focused on growth , they’re going to dedicate all of their time and resources on their core competencies, and they’ll outsource everything else.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 77

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

To make the most of these opportunities, B2B vendors need to realize that simply implementing ecommerce into their business won’t guarantee a chunk of the pie. The software company, which started in 1996, positioned itself to B2B buyers to leverage Microsoft Excel and use it as a self-service analytics and reporting service.

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Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 148

SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

As the world’s #1 CRM platform, Salesforce can do everything from providing more insight into customers or sales to improving inter-company communication for better customer service. Besides handling transaction settling, they give SaaS businesses marketing and sales services to strategically increase future adoption and engagement.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 87

yoursales

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I’ll write this as I go through my day with Independent Sales Professionals both signing up customers and talking to partners and other Independent Sales Professionals. When it comes to email, as with everything else I prefer browser-based cloud-based email. Sales is so tools-driven that you may actually want a list like this.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Systems Review Sales Outsourcing 96

OpenView Labs

APRIL 29, 2021

OpenView, Work-Bench , Primary Venture Partners , and Lerer Hippeau just hosted the fourth and final session of SaaS Growth Camp—a series for the firms’ portfolio companies tailored to the complex ideas behind SaaS growth and go-to-market strategies. This is a recap of OpenView Talent Partner Steve Melia’s workshop. .

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Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 81

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

While product growth may seem as simple as “attract customers to your Software-as-a-Service solution” there are countless SaaS challenges and customer issues that you’ll need to overcome along the way. Why do SaaS companies face challenges?

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Software Review Outsourcing Services SaaS Sales Hiring 94

Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy! More importantly, DALL-E’s cloud picture above is clearly wrong.

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Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2018

Our business allowed sales vendors to leverage our platform to build thought leadership in front of an engaged audience of B2B salespeople. Sales Hacker is Now Like an Outsourced CMO. Over time, we became almost like outsourced CMOs for 120+ SaaS Sales technology vendors. We were a nice cash flow business.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Sales Education 50

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Regardless of how cutting-edge your innovation may be, if you’re unable to display your products on your site and effectively demonstrate its benefits to potential customers , your company will struggle to close sales of your software or service. Research has also found that internal staff are most often the cause of security breaches.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Services 61

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. And then with your finance person or yourself or your outsourced person, you build a C-90 plan, which is one, we’re 90% sure, even if sales slow, we’re going to hit this plan. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago.

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Outsourcing Services Banking CTO Hire New CTO 190

Audacix

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Or worse still, you have to resort to using your customers as an outsourced testing team. If this seems like normal service for you, consider this: the former sucks the productivity out of your broader business and the latter results in frustrated customers who feel abused. Do you want to change to a more cost-effective structure?

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Software Software Delivery 40

OpenView Labs

MAY 6, 2021

There are a number of browser plugins or cloud-based applications that automate activity on LinkedIn. But first, let’s address two more risks of automating or outsourcing. All of the automation tools and outsourcing models violate multiple LinkedIn policies and terms of use. They were probably sent by a bot.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development AI Search 59

Buffer Resources

MARCH 29, 2023

That’s the story of many UGC creators – they go in with zero experience but armed with a smartphone and a creative eye, they can start charging brands to talk about their products and services for their social media platforms in no time. By partnering with UGC creators, brands can offer more value per post to their audience.

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Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Social Media Payment Services 99

Audacix

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Security-conscious software leaders are ensuring that their tools are helping them continuously monitor their web apps, APIs and cloud platforms. For example, Cyber Chief is an application security testing tool that now helps you secure web apps, APIs and cloud security posture management as well.

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Software Review DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 40

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

And then Greylock approached me about being a partner that ended up being a really fun experience. Do you have to still find the right product market fit, you have to build a good product, you have to service the customers, you have to compete in the market. And actually Jyoti and I met before the Greylock experience.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 249

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Aneesa Sayall (VP of Strategic Operations Customer & Partner Org at ServiceNow) interviews Lara Caimi, the ServiceNow Chief Customer & Partner Officer, about the journey to $15 billion and how building partnerships help propel the business. So, what types of partners does ServiceNow have? You scale the hell out of it.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Scaling Outsourced Development 272

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. I worked at Insight Venture Partners right after college. Bob Moore: Yeah.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

Audacix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Table Of Contents SaaS cloud security tools and SaaS providers act as a constructive bridge for cloud infrastructure and application protection. However, the path to SaaS cloud security can be challenging. Opting for cloud security as a service from the best SaaS provider and shifting left is the way to move forward.

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Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Software Review 52