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SaaS Is Spurring the Next Cycle of Software Superperformance

OPEXEngine

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. Metrics will also change. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

SaaStr

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. What works?

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

In a series of articles, we will share our experiences about: Our journey to AWS EKS (Kubernetes managed service). Unexplained networking issues with latency between our machines that DigitalOcean’s support team never cleared out (this was critical for our Postgres read-replicas lag, Redis instances, and HA in general).

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. When should companies offer services? the night before it was to IPO).

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * In terms of tone, what is the right tone to approach the broader team with? How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale?

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What Does a Successful Security Program Look Like?

BetterCloud

You will better understand success by being able to identify failure: Figure 1 – The lone IT professional, after being told that the budget is too small for more security people on their team. If security is on your mind only, you will fail no matter how great you are or your team is. Doing security by yourself is failure.