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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

How quickly will we need to scale the application? Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask Here are some additional questions that might have slipped your developers’ minds. What needs to be logged for customer support? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need?

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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. They are faster to get started (no account creation), they can scale very quickly, and they can rise to enterprise levels with commercial cloud offerings.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective? Things are scaling faster. Yammer certainly scaled faster than I scaled back in the day with EchoSign or Aaron when he was here, but the pace of Slack. Jason : A lot has changed since then.

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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?

Tom Tunguz

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. Infrastructure-as-a-service provided by Amazon, Google and Microsoft among others empowers applications to scale as users demand. Advances like chatbots haven’t yet impacted software use at scale.

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The Benefits of SaaS and Implementing SaaS Payments

Stax

What’s more, users don’t need to bear the cost of maintaining or updating the software. It’s hosted on the cloud and software providers are responsible for software development, maintenance, and releasing updates. Generally, pay-as-you-go pricing options are available so you pay only when you use the software.

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How to Collaborate, Manage, and Work with Developers featuring Twilio’s Jeff Lawson

SaaStr

At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second. He gets what goes on in a developer’s brain and the detailed process of building software, but he understands that businesses are motivated to move quickly. 2 Keep close to the customer and the problem.

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Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams

Intercom, Inc.

On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. But despite these differences, Farhan Virji , VP of Customer Happiness at Later , believes that there is actually quite a lot that B2B support teams can learn from their B2C colleagues. 3 B2C support trends and lessons learned.

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