SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. They also did an A+ session at Annual with several top India SaaS founders, which you can catch below! Here’s 22 of the most relevant takeaways for India’s SaaS ecosystem.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million to organizations who haven't invested adequately in software security testing, as per IBM research. While functional software testing is already regarded as a critical component of the software development lifecycle, unfortunately, automated software security testing remains an afterthought for the majority of software teams.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software? By partnering with a trusted SaaS billing platform. What is a SaaS Billing Platform? How do they keep customers returning for more?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. We’ll handle all the hard stuff, such as localizing checkout, billing and ecommerce compliance, and tax management — and let you focus on building and growing your SaaS business.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Ensuring that every update released for your application is rigorously tested for security holes through penetration testing is important for compliance with cyber security laws, privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA and also other regulatory frameworks, particularly for fintech, banking, insurance and other regulated industries.

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Scytale

JANUARY 31, 2024

While it may appear daunting, navigating this compliance doesn’t need to be a complex endeavor. We’ve formulated a straightforward SOC 2 requirements checklist to assist you in initiating your path towards SOC 2 compliance. The SOC 2 Bible Everything you need to know about compliance! DOWNLOAD THE WHITEPAPER 2.

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Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. A third-party audit is an assessment of a company’s internal controls, security practices, or compliance processes conducted by an independent auditing firm.

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Audacix

AUGUST 17, 2022

As someone in charge of SaaS business you're probably being constantly reminded of the need to focus on continuous application security, but making this happen is not an easy task. You see, gaining customers' trust is crucial to a SaaS business's success because it directly affects revenue.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Table Of Contents With the severity and complexity of cyber threats evolving, you need to test your web applications continuously throughout the development process. Web application assessment involves a thorough examination of a web application's security to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that attackers could potentially exploit.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Table Of Contents Security testing tools are crucial in software development lifecycles because they empower you and your software teams to shift left and help your developers proactively detect and mitigate security weaknesses which can be a security threat if left unattended. AWS, Azure or GCP.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle. Similarly, testers and developers need to know about these features of application security tools.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

…or why this software investor has a crush on hardware It’s hard to find a VC who doesn’t love software, and for good reason. Software is also a lovely thing to scale. It’s not very surprising then that we’ve built, invested in, and bought a ton of software over the last few decades. But what about hardware?

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Additionally, our diversity-first team has grown to more than 30 top-notch talents (you are an incredible team of people, each and every one of you!)and

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Whether it’s greater efficiency, increased revenue, cost savings, or achieving compliance, every customer has a reason for purchasing your product. I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. Q: How do you identify bad-fit customers?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Google Analytics integration with other tools You can easily connect your analytics software to the GA4 account using the partner connectors. Depending on the specific analytics software, you can pass event data from GA4 for viewing and analyzing in other tools. Poor UI that makes it challenging to navigate features.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2023

So let’s find out how to create a data tracking plan to collect and analyze all data relevant to your SaaS business. Planning the process helps to align your teams with the same goals during data collection, tracking, and implementation. Analyze data for valuable insights Use data tracking software for analyzing data.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 3, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news. Pluralsight is the technology skills platform that helps companies skill up their teams and increase their engineering impact. The Pluralsight team will help users build up those tech skills with expert knowledge-based courses, skill assessments, and paths. Goodwill and skill?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Tamar made her way from Google and Amazon into the world of bottoms up SaaS with one of the leading companies of our generation, Slack. How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Dare I say SaaS.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bob made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found Crossbeam. * Loving our podcast content? Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. That many of the standard assumptions and ways of doing SaaS will change a lot. He believes we’re rapidly approaching that new world where anyone can build a great SaaS product. What does that mean?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. The path to success is not linear.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Dare I say SaaS. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. Want to see more content like this?

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