OpenView Labs

MARCH 3, 2021

For developer-focused software, product-led models have become so common that the broader market now expects it. Your developer documentation is how people discover your product via organic search, StackOverflow, or other developer communities. I get it: Developers are too cool for splashy colors and sans-serif fonts.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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IT World

MARCH 14, 2023

Computing giant Google announced today that it will release previews of three new AI features, including AI composition for Google Workspace, developer prototyping and coding via PaLM and MakerSuite, and validated models for its Vertex AI service. The Workspace features, currently, are focused on Docs and Gmail.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. What is product development?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean and a developer-turned-entrepreneur, Gabe Monroy shares how founders can avoid the trap of over-engineering products that customers won’t pay for and how to de-risk product development through a simple analogy of candy, vitamins, and painkillers. Walk customers through them. What is the outcome?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Documentation, more often than not, is an afterthought for many SaaS businesses. Putting together a comprehensive library of documentation. Documentation is more often than not an afterthought for many businesses; a checkbox to be ticked once the core business functions are up and running smoothly. So let’s get started.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It required significant development work, working with banks and other financial institutions, passing multiple verification and compliance hurdles, and so on. As I outlined in the beginning, handling payments wasn’t easy in 2010, even for developers. Let’s see why. Stripe came in with a vision to solve this problem.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2024

The website is on (a beefed up instance of) WordPress , Circle is what’s powering our online community, we recently switched to Docusaurus to host our documentation, and use Transistor.fm Developers are a massive audience for us, and ‘swag’ is a shared language that’ll work with developers wherever you find them.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Your digital strategy document should: Define your short and long term goals Show you who your customers are Show you where you can find them Outline what you need to attract your customer’s attention Offer a step-by-step plan to attract and hold customer attention Show you how to analyze and improve marketing performance.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2023

Even fully staffed, teams required years to develop models with reasonably accurate performance. Newer LLMs (large-language models) simplify AI-feature development in the same way Twilio empowered developers to send an SMS with five-lines of code, abstracting the complexities of carrier-integration.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. Developers are a tough crowd, their time is extremely valuable, and they’re allergic to anything that even remotely feels, tastes, or smells like marketing. Hope it’s helpful!

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This simplicity is of course shrouded in the complexity of biology, and demands that biotech companies thoughtfully de-risk existential concerns throughout the drug development lifecycle. One powerful avenue is through the use of an exceptionally well-curated, comprehensive, and accessible virtual data room (VDR)! key in vivo data results).

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. Models require millions of dollars & technical expertise to deploy: document chunking, vectorization, prompt-tuning or plugins for better accuracy & breadth. What are these moats? At the moment, capital & technical expertise create competitive advantage.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2023

is a book a management team could take to an offsite to develop or re-imagine the entire operating system of a business. The book starts with a company’s founding documents, expands to the operating cadence, and culminates in the business’ operating system. Much of the Monday meeting agenda is derived from those snippets.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The shine of distributing an app quickly wears off when developers realize that stores like Google Play and Apple Store take a chunk of the profits. The hefty price tag has developers to look for alternative solutions. Spotlight: How One Developer Makes Money Selling Outside the Major App Stores. Let’s dive in.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 29, 2021

When it comes to selling and marketing software to developers, tried-and-true traditional B2B tactics just plain don’t work. After analyzing patterns in publicly traded companies and studying how developers buy software (hint: they don’t like to be sold to), we compiled our research into The Developer-Focused Go-to-Market Playbook.

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The Daily Egg

APRIL 22, 2021

While a business plan deals with the large picture, such as product development, product identity, and market analysis, a sales plan focuses on its day-to-day operations. Startups are particularly notorious for neglecting this critical document, choosing instead to tackle problems as they arise.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

fs Builds features developer-built projects showing step-by-step examples, code snippets, and advice on how to approach building with FastSpring. push ( decodeURIComponent (pair[ 1 ])); } } return query_string; } (); </ script > < script > jQuery( document ).ready(function() substring ( 1 ); var vars = query.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If it works, developers will build with them. 2 Venmo started with MongoDB & then moved to Amazon Document DB. Nobody knows. 2 Tomorrow, apps & software will have web3 components to them. Nobody will know. 3 The challenge today isn’t finding the applications for web3’s steel. And no one will know.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2022

API, Developer Adoption & Growth. Many of them were old and outdated, their API keys were not publicly available, and their documentation was not clear or helpful. Their goal was to present a simple, accessible solution that would be easy for developers to use, and they certainly built their API with this mission in mind.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 6, 2019

In the past couple of years, the evolution of the UI/UX of developer APIs has been stunning: we went from very “rough” products, mainly composed of a text documentation describing an API that developers access through their terminal, to much sleeker and easier to use interfaces. The future of developer APIs?

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

We work hard to span all areas of the pyramid, with smart feature prioritization, solid help center documentation, regular NPS surveys, and now, proactive customer success. This document, accompanied by your CRM, will aid in timely and insightful outreach.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

About this series: fs Builds features developer-built projects showing step-by-step examples, code snippets, and advice on how to approach building with FastSpring. Resources Quotes API Documentation Webhooks If you have another use case you want to explore, speak directly with a solution engineer by signing up for a demo here.

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FastSpring

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether you’re a game developer looking to capture more of the Apple market – and take advantage of the new rules under the Digital Markets Act – or if you’ve been selling on Mac for years, this integration offers a quicker, and more familiar, checkout process for Apple users. For more details, take a look at our documentation.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 22, 2024

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected most of Epic’s claims against Apple but ruled in Epic’s favor regarding Apple’s policies against developers sending users outside Apple’s system to make digital purchases. In 2021, U.S. Then in 2023, the 9th U.S. Further Epic Games v.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It required significant development work, working with banks and other financial institutions, passing multiple verification and compliance hurdles, and so on. As I outlined in the beginning, handling payments wasn’t easy in 2010, even for developers. Let’s see why. Stripe came in with a vision to solve this problem.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2023

For Harness, the user is typically developers, dev ops teams, and SREs. For users, education might be product documentation for a developer, plus call-to-actions for education, speaking to a salesperson, or scheduling a demo. . The user and the buyer. . The User — Users of the product. Educating users differently than buyers.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Take a look at our documentation. FastSpring’s Trials With/Without Payment Method feature allows you to minimize developer implementation and maintenance time, consolidate solutions, and open up new business models without needing to get additional third party support. Here’s our documentation. Want to implement Offers API?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This uses the principle of Test Driven Development, which is less focused on products with perfect codes detached from human reality but more on creating products that solve problems. Stripe documents this feedback before carrying out further work. Encouraging dialogue and developing actionable strategies that work for everyone.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Used strategically, localized pricing can help SaaS businesses expand their customer base and boost conversions, accelerating business development. Documentation is one of startup experts’ most common pieces of advice, but only 22% of VC-backed companies use an internal documentation system.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Acrobat Sign and Salesforce integration enables electronic signatures, document tracking, and automatic record updates within Salesforce. Custom integrations – developed specifically for an organization's unique requirements and needs. There are currently over 2,500 apps available but the number is growing.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In the past 10 to 15 years has computer programming entered mainstream culture and the number of developers has soared, popularized by the dot com era and the increasing prevalence of computers and mobile phones. With the increase in developer numbers, new opportunities have arisen to build sizable businesses serving programmers.

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Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

Katie Yagodnik, Director of Customer Success Operations and Digital Programs, Totango From the sales side, Charlie talked about implementing systems to document the sales cycle thoroughly. We’ve set up systems to document what we said we were going to accomplish with the customer in the sales cycle.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Dev tools and API companies are on fire right now, so a question I’m hearing a lot lately from founders is: How do I build a strong developer brand like [Stripe]? Follow these simple steps: Be a great developer. Hire great developers. Engage 24/7 with developers using your product. Developers share the love.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Depending on the problem, you may seek input from data analysts , customer success managers , developers/engineers, or the sales and marketing teams. A cross-functional team is formed, including members from customer support, sales, product development, data analysis , and a senior product manager. Trend analysis in Userpilot.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers. Use Affiliates As Local Sales Partners MapTiler maintains developer documentation in English — and as the primary business language throughout the world, this works well for most of its users.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 12, 2024

In the world of software development, everything can seem chaotic at some point. Well, these simple yet effective integrations play a crucial role in software development. Hence, by integrating code linting, you and your team can ensure that standards are documented guidelines and actively being enforced.

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