SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

When you first get started, effectively any hosting setup will do the trick: your application is small, you have relatively few customers, and perhaps (depending on your sales process) expectations around performance and reliability are a bit lower during the beta phase. Are you growing and want to scale? Over time all of that changes.

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Audacix

JUNE 22, 2023

[Melbourne, Australia] - Audacix, a leading global provider of automated testing, application security and DevSecOps solutions for software companies, today announced a strategic partnership with Meteonic Innovation Pvt Ltd, a leading company in technology oriented software consulting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 26, 2021

stars on the most popular software review platforms (G2, Capterra, and GetApp – all of which use a 5-star rating scale). Overall SaaS Award – Customer Service Category Winners: AppFolio Investment Management. Overall SaaS Award – Development + DevOps Category Winners: InfluxData. Quantum Metric. ABOUT APPEALIE.

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Audacix

JANUARY 31, 2024

Table Of Contents As NIST recommends organizations make the most of technology to shape and craft their own cybersecurity strategies with its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 , all the leading and emerging businesses in some of the world's critical infrastructure like the banking and energy industries must consider application security automation.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). While there were some worries that the transition to the service subscription model would reduce software’s traditional stickiness, those concerns may have been overwrought.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We’ve been fortunate to be Datadog’s partners as they’ve rapidly scaled, launched major new product lines, went public in 2019, hit a $55 billion market cap and continue to exceed expectations as a public company. We often see it leads to a high conversion rate.”. Today they’re worth twice what Slack was acquired for.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2022

With that in mind, the challenge businesses now face is striking the right balance between personalization and scale – which, historically, has been a tricky line to walk. Atlassian: Wayne Stewart, Head of CSS Cloud Growth – DevOps & IT. Now, he oversees support for both Atlassian’s Opsgenie and Statuspage products. “As

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Short of dogs and cats living together , Dev-Plus-Ops playing nicely seems to be the right direction, if only based on how often we hear about its from prospective customers with SaaS ambitions. There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70. product called Yahoo!

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This empowers them to utilize these application security tools and services in the best way possible to secure apps from being exploited for sensitive data through cyber attacks. Comprehensive Threat Detection : Look for automated web app security services that offer advanced threat detection mechanisms.

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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. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Remember, security testing for web apps can be done with different methods: Manually, by experienced penetration testing services providers who have the right credentials, years of experience and the right penetration testing framework. A Penetration testing-as-a-service platform that helps you get expert help when you need it.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As the firm scales at $1B, the NRR dips and need not be declining. 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. Best Practices: Freemium is a direct conversion and lead generation strategy.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 23, 2020

We’ve been fortunate to be Datadog’s partners as they’ve rapidly scaled, launched major new product lines, went public in 2019, hit a $25 billion market cap and continue to exceed expectations as a public company. We often see it leads to a high conversion rate.”. Today they’re worth more than Slack. a lot over the last few years.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This could lead to miscommunications and misunderstandings. It is an extension of what we know as DevOps. DevOps is the process of organizing cooperation between everyone involved in the design and building of big data. Reducing the amount of variation from one project to another is an important key to scaling any business.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

How does Carolyn think startups and larger companies can replace the leads that are lost from having no events in a COVID-19 world? How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale? 326: Gusto’s Lexi Reese walks you through scaling high performance teams. Always a huge source of leads for B2B companies.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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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. When building a company 5 years ago, the sales motion and who’s going to be the user/buyer/champion for a potential deal was pretty clear to the founding team. Your product needs to support top-down (demo?POC?Sales)

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud, Stephen championed and implemented DevOps practices at some of the most recognizable tech companies on the planet, including MuleSoft and Salesforce. As I progressed in my career, I started to realize that one of my deeply held personal values was leading as an introvert.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

ThriveHive Has Answers ThriveHive has all the As to your Qs with their latest feature release - a free guided marketing inbox with which businesses can now assess, monitor, and respond to the most-asked questions from their prospective customers, directly from their inbox. Product of the Day.

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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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CloudGeometry

APRIL 13, 2023

Shorter, more predictable lead time for changes. Ergo: DevOps, the magic that works through transparent cross-functional collaboration…except when it doesn’t. Is “the” new answer to DevOps now ZeroOps or NoOps? Neither is the secret ingredient that developers need to include to achieve robust, change-proof DevOps.

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Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 23, 2022

We enable the most critical component of the modern customer journey – ongoing engagement – throughout the customer journey, from converting prospects to onboarding new customers, activating, providing support, and beyond. The move to an internet economy with internet scale was already happening, but the pandemic accelerated it massively.

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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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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Most of these services capture webpage availability, average web page load time, and web page functionality, among other performance indicators. We have picked out the seven best website monitoring services to get your site up and running and staying healthy. How To Choose The Best Website Monitoring Service For You.

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

People really took to the gamified nature of it, especially the sales department. We need engineering teams to code fixes, or Platform Services to modify infrastructure, or IT to enable security features. Adjacent teams in this case are Platform Services (DevOps), IT, Engineering, and Architecture. Weekly check-ins.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2019

I had the opportunity to start and lead an open-source project at the Eclipse Foundation, interestingly enough, around systems management. That led to working also at IBM, where I was leading the OpenSocial Foundation. It was there that I really discovered this passion and this joy of working transparently and openly with developers.

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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. This approach works well when the licensee is required to host but prefers to outsource the DevOps. Customization.

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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.

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BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

SaaS management is the practice of managing the day-to-day operations across an organization’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Inconsistent levels of access for admins often result in giving out access to more data and controls than necessary, leading to increased risk. What is SaaS management? Automation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How do good founders respond to questions on not achieving sales targets? #2: 3: Godfather of Sales John Barrow on How To React When a Lead Goes Dark. About the episode: John Barrows is essentially the Godfather of Sales. How did John make his way into the world of SaaS and more specifically sales optimization?

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The report is based on survey data collected from software sellers and buyers of companies at every level of ARR and across verticals like devops, security, training and education, analytics/business intelligence, IT and several others. . And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way.

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