SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

Ten years ago, no one would have guessed Europe would generate the largest software IPO globally, yet UiPath has done it, and net retention is 144%. At SaaStr Europa, UiPath’s Dines shared five insights from growing a company from nothing, so other founders can learn what it takes to scale a SaaS startup to $1B+ ARR.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Codium is one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI coding assistant space, having scaled its go-to-market team from 3 to 75 in just under a year. Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present. Their strategy? The real impact?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

Maybe you think developers are weird beasts that type on a keyboard pushing out code, and then as soon as they become indispensable, they quit. At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second. In turn, developers need to adapt. You may ask, “When can we ship this?”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. Building for scale. But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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TurnKey Labs

MAY 18, 2025

Did you know that navigating the challenges of distributed software development is akin to walking a tightrope over the digital landscape? One of the prominent hurdles in this high-stakes journey is the communication chasm that often engulfs remote development teams.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Three Lesser-Known Facts: Before settling on construction software, Couremanche experimented with several other business ideas, including ventures unrelated to construction technology. In the early days of Procore, he personally coded parts of the initial software despite not having formal training as a software developer.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

He created a culture of “structured chaos” – enough process to scale, enough freedom to innovate. The Culture Play Zinman’s secret weapon? Building in Tel Aviv but thinking global from day one. Result: 93% employee satisfaction even post-IPO. Becoming the default operating system for work, period.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So lots of folks talk about GitLab as a leading in software development and devops, but GitLab also has sort of a quieter cousin that also IPO’d: JFrog. JFrog started off as the #1 binary repository and has expanded from there as a multi-product suite for software development. Expanding beyond Artifactory is key.

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It was exciting as it scaled to be a more “enterprise” Github at first. And the engine really never stopped running, evolving into a dominant DevOps Platform for software development. So GitLab is one of those ones that sort of … always was doing well. It was exciting at YC 2015 Demo Day.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Most massive software companies structure themselves with an office of the CEO, which allocates capital to different business units. There are three paths I’ve seen to achieve this scale: The dominant path of the last ten years: focus on a single product until the company is roughly at $100m in ARR, then build adjacent products.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re in the modern era of software development. Traditional waterfall methodologies of the 80s and 90s are transitioning to more iterative agile development, and with that a DevOps culture has emerged. Companies are shipping software faster and more frequently, a shift that requires tools that can keep up.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

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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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 6, 2024

article will discuss the basics and benefits of nearshore software development. Knowledge is power—when you understand all of your options, you’ll pick the one that will keep your software dev team riding the big waves. Table of Contents What Is Nearshore Software Development? Let’s get started!

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With more and more SaaS companies adopting this technology on a global scale, Swimm has also announced an impressive 27.6M Swimm was founded on the lessons that Tom, Gilad, Omer, and I learned at ITC while helping prepare hundreds of new developers for work. Series A funding round. Let’s get started. How was Swimm founded?

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TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The need to expand your software development team is paramount. As companies strive to stay competitive and deliver cutting-edge solutions, traditional methods of team expansion often come with their own set of challenges and complexities.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. All of our Managing Directors on the early team have both founded companies and operate at scale. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!)

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Colombia has an exciting and quickly growing software development industry that’s taking the development world by storm. All the news I could find regarding the Colombian offshoring market is shouting that this mid-sized country in South America is churning out extraordinary new software projects and products.

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2024

The product development life cycle is an exciting and complex process. This article will break down the stages of a product development life cycle and tools that can help you deliver a great product. TL;DR The product development life cycle is the systematic process of taking a product from an idea to its commercialization.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Success for software development startups and high growth companies relies heavily on having a strong and efficient development team in place, which is why many firms choose to leverage the many benefits of offshoring.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Semantic understanding of code and ephemeral developer environments enables data engineers to reduce costs and work more fluidly together (SQLMesh).

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TurnKey Labs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Have you ever heard of nearshore software development and wondered how it differs from offshoring? As a trusted nearshore software development company with an office in sunny California, we are perfectly placed to demystify this subject for you.

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TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The need to expand your software development team is paramount. As companies strive to stay competitive and deliver cutting-edge solutions, traditional methods of team expansion often come with their own set of challenges and complexities.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 18, 2023

In this article, we’ll be analyzing the benefits of nearshoring your software development efforts. It’s the practice of transferring some or all of your software development processes to countries that […] Well, not literally next door, rather, nearshore (yes we’re poets, too). What is nearshoring, you say?

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IT World

JULY 11, 2022

A shortage of software developers and IT workers in general is forcing businesses to turn to “citizen developers” within their organizations to create business applications supporting digital transformation efforts.

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TurnKey Labs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offshore software development has become a pivotal strategy for businesses seeking cost-effective solutions and access to global talent. While the allure of offshore development is strong, […] While the allure of offshore development is strong, […]

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

outsourced and offshore software development companies may be the undisputed leader. Of all the great offenders of spam emails—from super slimming diet pills to the ones that promise to cure your hammer toe situation (complete with revolting photos!)—outsourced A dubious honor, indeed. However, statistics […]

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 28, 2023

I’ll let you in on a secret: Of all of the widely known scarce commodities in the world—oil, gold, lithium, palatable Justin Beiber songs (sorry, bro)—high-quality software developers are the shiny stars at the top of the list.

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TurnKey Labs

MAY 24, 2023

I was in the same boat when I first started exploring the world of nearshore software development. When I say Mexico, what three words that start with “T” come to mind? Tequila, Tacos, and Tijuana… any chance Tech made your list? Mexico certainly didn’t come to mind as a top choice. However, after some research, […]

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 2, 2024

At small scale this may not seem important. More than that, Tobiko enables data engineers to operate with the same discipline as software developers: creating development environments, writing tests to ensure code performs as intended, & simulating changes to ensure one line of code doesn’t wipe a billion rows.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. JFrog offered 11.6 million shares at $44 each and they spiked about 47% — putting the market cap at $6.6

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key takeaways: The market is full of offshore software development options, but which ones should you consider in 2024 to get the best quality software development talent?

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2021

But Wong offers a word of caution: “If you don’t get your ICP right, you kind of become this custom software development shop for your top customers.” Once you accelerate to significant scale growth, it’s vital to get an outsider’s perspective. Keep your eyes on the prize of your ultimate ICP. . Thriving ($100 million +).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 1, 2023

As an offshore software development partner, we understand the challenges that come with managing remote dev teams. With the shift towards remote work, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your team is delivering top-quality work while working from different locations.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 12, 2023

As any successful founder will tell you, building a thriving tech startup requires assembling a talented team of software developers who are dedicated, skilled, and aligned with your product vision.

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