SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. billion in 2012. Team Size: 12.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

If there’s one thing we’ve learned as we build full-stack SaaS across industries and user cases, it’s this: SaaS is a 3-sided balancing act: feature agility; compliance readiness; and return on infrastructure investment. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. If you want to scale, you need to make the investment of time and money and make sure your infrastructure suits your size of business. And… It’s not fun. Lessons Learned.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Customers can choose where to host the database, how to secure it, monitor it, ensure it complies with new data privacy regulations, limit access, and service it. Today, I’m thrilled to announce our investment in and partnership with Mattermost. They deliver open source messaging to secure enterprises and DevOps teams.

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Audacix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Table Of Contents Software development is taking a turn towards a more secure and safer application development framework and practises. DevSecOps frameworks seek to add security automation to DevOps environments. One of the practices that is gaining momentum is the DevSecOps software framework. What is DevSecOps?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2019

So what’s the key to having happy developers? A joyful, transparent development experience. As we keep building out our own platform so teams can customize Intercom for their own needs, we’ve loved getting to know the great group of developers and partners building apps for our customers and for themselves.

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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? A better investment of your time and money will be a pentesting as a service model, which will help you build a structure of web app security that grows and adapts to your software development environment.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Benefits of using Expense Categories in SaaS The main expense categories for any SaaS company are: Cost of Revenue Research & Development Sales & Marketing General & Admin These four categories are the standard for describing costs and expenses of any SaaS company from Salesforce to Zoom to your startup. Subaccounts for everyone!

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Just investing in security testing tools is not sufficient in this day and age. That's when you need the help of a web app pentest services company to help you perform deep-dive security assessments and secure your customers' sensitive data, beyond what your automated processes give you.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Overall SaaS Award – Customer Service Category Winners: AppFolio Investment Management. Overall SaaS Award – Development + DevOps Category Winners: InfluxData. and is backed by leading investment firms such as JMI Equity, Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital. ABOUT APPEALIE.

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Audacix

JANUARY 31, 2024

Once you have a clear idea of all your drawbacks and the gaps where automation testing tools can be beneficial for you, you can consult with a web app pentesting services company to know about the services and tools that they offer. So that your investment yields maximum impact in securing your application against security breaches.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses are on track to generate some $105 billion in revenue this year, an accomplishment for a business model that, while it’s been around since the 1960s, didn’t evolve into its current form until a decade ago. They’re $200 billion or so now [as a public company since 2015].

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. Why invest precious time on such a limited solution? VPN—or Tailscale?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as Product-Led Growth (PLG).

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Scale Business Software Review DevOps as a Service 93

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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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner. Can you afford to build endless subscription tier enforcement mechanisms, freemium support, trial support, self-service administration, onboarding forms, and different signup methods?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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Audacix

APRIL 2, 2022

The application security landscape is constantly changing, and with the increased frequency of software application breaches in recent years, it's crucial that companies are able to protect their applications and software development life cycle from cyberattacks.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 23, 2020

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as product led growth (PLG).

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Scale Software Review DevOps as a Service Investment 80

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Paymo makes a case for work management software to aid in this - and how using both to fill in unavoidable gaps gives you the freedom to begin with an individual task, work on it, develop it over time, and even turn it into a project where need be. GitLab, the DevOps software we know and love, just got even better with its 11.8

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Transportation Payment Features DevOps as a Service Scale 51

Audacix

AUGUST 13, 2022

Testing is essential when new processes are developed or altered, as well as when SAP upgrades its system. Develop SAP automated tests without hiring expensive test engineers. Get started with cloud-based SAP testing so that you don't have to invest in expensive on-premise infrastructure. Can SAP be automated using Selenium?

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Software Review Systems Review DevOps as a Service Technical Review 52

Upscope

OCTOBER 24, 2018

An on-premise co-browsing solution can be quickly added to your system without a large upfront investment in development. Our on premise solution is designed to maximize security while reducing the amount of components needed to run the service. Data service on premise + Upscope API. Data service on premise only.

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DevOps as a Service Banking compliance Cloud 40

Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

System and Organisation Controls 2 (SOC 2) is an audit report that certifies to trustworthiness of services provided by a service organization, particularly software companies. Which is why correctly setting the scope is an important part of SOC 2 preparation services. Does a SaaS startup need to be SOC 2 compliant?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

The unfortunate fact is that most penetration testing service providers do a really horrible job of helping you, the customer, understanding three critical decision-making questions: What type of penentration test do you need? How will their penetration testing services actually help you (beyond a 50-page penetration test report)?

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 52

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

The ongoing rise of devops. I loved Manav’s vision for securing the set of cloud-based data services that we can collectively call the “data cloud.” Numbers wise, the average Series A was up 16% in size over 2019 at around $15M, but early-stage venture investment was down 11% over 2019. Sometimes, more.

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Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle. Great question.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

The second is adoption of DevOps practices, and the third is a focus on a digital customer experience. We also invested around those field account executives, more technical sales, pre-sales and eventually, customer success and post sales. It was primarily developers. The first is a migration to the cloud. So that changed a lot.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 5, 2019

If you don't have this expertise within your team and your external penetration testing partner doesn't offer it, talk to us about our subscription-based pentest-as-a-service plans. But what about the other cloud services that you integrate with to deliver your solution? Do you have a security architecture strategy?

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Although it is a company providing telecommunication services it takes real charges and has managed to keep its margins high as a software company of about 52% at $2B in ARR. For the cloud-scale applications, Datadog monitors the servers, tools, databases, and services, with a data analytics platform that is SaaS-based. Best Practices.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 24, 2023

You can, thus, maximize the benefits you derive from this method by following its fundamental concepts, including: Visualizing the workflow: In this case, you can utilize an electronic Kanban board or a physical board to visualize the steps you are currently using to do your work or deliver services. What is Scrum?

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Frontegg

JUNE 10, 2021

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications are essentially eliminating traditional on-premise applications thanks to their single-instance and multi-tenant architecture. As per Gartner estimates, it has already passed the $100 billion mark, doubling the rivalling Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) methodology. So what is SaaS all about?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today in 2020, there exists a service-based digital solution for every other problem or cause. HubSpot is a pioneer brand when it comes to inbound marketing, sales, and services. The web-based software development version control and project collaboration platform, GitHub uses the SaaS model of delivery.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today in 2020, there exists a service-based digital solution for every other problem or cause. HubSpot is a pioneer brand when it comes to inbound marketing, sales, and services. The web-based software development version control and project collaboration platform, GitHub uses the SaaS model of delivery.

AI 8

AI Artificial Intelligence SaaS Cybersecurity 8

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. The challenge is to develop a pricing model that blends the different value perceptions across all customers.

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