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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

SaaStr

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Speaking of developer-first, how can startups compete in a war for talent against FB and Google? For Steve, what does devops really mean? What does Steve believe is the right culture for devops teams?

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

When should companies offer services? Speaking of, we go beyond the typical discussion of product-market fit into the concept of product-market-sales fit, and what that means for product design, to services, to pricing and packaging, to product management, and more. What does this mean for product design and product management?

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What Is Enterprise OEM Software Licensing?

Sales Hacker

These companies resell the solution and bundle services around the solution to add value to the customer. They make their money on the margin from the software’s resell and their services to the end-customer. This approach works well when the licensee is required to host but prefers to outsource the DevOps. Customization.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

How should founders think about sales rep compensation? David Skok: So I graduated with a computer science degree in the early days of that craft and few months after leaving college, I found a problem and I wrote some code to solve it and accidentally without even thinking what I was doing, I ended up creating a startup.

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