SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. At the 9th ever SaaStr Annual, ~200 of the best and hottest companies on earth will go BIG as partners/sponsors. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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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. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. Multi-cloud architectures.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

One of the ways we showcase our mission, vision, and values is our annual Fall Summit event. I am thrilled to work at a company that places such emphasis on bringing the whole team together from all over the world with these events. I’d also like to give a special shout-out to Team Eight for both of their victories during the event!

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We recently held our annual Connect/Enterprise event and, for this very reason, artificial intelligence—particularly generative AI and LLMs—was a major topic of conversation both on and off the stage. … You have to learn, you have to adjust, and, if you’re not, you’ll have a problem to find a job.

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Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

SaaS startup founders, product managers, UI designers and software engineers all have strong ideas and even stronger attachments to the SaaS products they build. However, there is one often overlooked aspect of agile software methodologies that has been lost in their loose translation from their agile manufacturing roots: the customer.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for around 3 years at different companies such as IMC Pacific and Macquarie Group. Following his brief career as a software engineer, he transitioned into a Business Analyst and worked in this role at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then the Australian Securities Exchange.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For example, female software engineers have increased by only 2% in the last * 21 years *. You don’t need a data scientist or software engineer on your team to get more conversions with the power of AI. Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? And it’s not for lack of trying.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

At conferences, events and coffee meetings, startup founders and employees freely share many of the insights into product design, marketing, customer success, and engineering best practices. One could argue the entire open-source movement is a giant continuing education program for software engineers.

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Neil Patel

JULY 2, 2021

Let’s say the following events played out over the past few years: You’re getting a degree in computer science. You Googled “software engineer jobs” last week. So now Google knows what type of “engineer salaries” to show you, even though you never explicitly asked for “software engineer salaries.”.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Or maybe that’s just my software engineer’s bias. The idea that the latest is also correct holds in technical genres like software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the likes. Reflection can also mean revision and viewing events from a narrow kaleidoscope.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We paid a $2500 bonus for any referral, and then we paid a $10,000 referral bonus for anybody that referred a software engineer. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. We did a really good job of motivating and promoting the internal referrals so that our existing employees would refer other potential employees.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We have shortlisted the top full-stack developer events you should consider attending to learn about the latest trends, engage with influencers, and improve your networking. workshops, and even a hackathon. You also have the option of getting certificated in trending fields like AI & ML, Cloud Management, and more.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. And that engine that we’re building in the code school space, in the software engineering space, it turns out you can abstract that into other industries, into other fields. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

Jean: For our independent events we have people come in pairs, such as an engineering manager and a product manager who have been working together for some time. I thought, “If this guy can do it with a nuclear submarine, we can definitely do it with the internet and software.”. Louis: It puts it in context.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Similarly, freelance software engineer lulian Gulea found he could save 62 hours a year by introducing six simple keyboard shortcuts. Brainscape’s research shows you can save eight working days a year if you use keyboard shortcuts. They include: Using Ctrl + Enter on Windows and Linux to send emails. The average time saved is 2.28

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User Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Continuously develop yourself through product management events, webinars , podcasts , books , and so on. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Has this got to do with any particular chain of events? There’s a set of skills that overlap with the skills of software engineering, data science, or analytics, but they’re not the same as it. If we zoom back up a little bit, what’s actually going on? Has something happened in the last while? What’s up?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Todd: The fact that you’re talking about problem selection and solution validation suggests that you’re really looking for engineers who are problem-oriented and focused on outcomes. Our software engineers are actually called product engineers internally for that reasons. We’re that way too.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For instance, I’m a software engineer turned marketer. So, I often talk about engineering concepts like agile and sprints and sprinkle them across my content to highlight my past experiences and build a sense of familiarity with my audience.     Dig deeper into your personal life experiences.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help. The technical skills include a solid understanding of software development and system architecture. With Userpilot, you can track feature usage or events and visualize the data in graphs or heatmaps. Next comes product analytics.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on? That’s one of the rarest resources you guys have. So I’d like to leave you with one question today. Are they spending their time on building new products?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

If you put the average person from Google that is an engineer, a core software engineer, you’re going to likely get a really, really talented person. Now, if you pulled the average person from Google that works in product, you’re going to find amazing people.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

” As much as Women in Tech events and discussions do exist to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology and young girls find role models, there are women who would rather not fall under that label, and find that it might hold them back. It’s marginalizing, and it needs to evolve.”

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Stax

MAY 30, 2024

Attend Industry Events Network with business owners, investors, and potential customers. Presence at these events can also lead to media coverage. Attend industry events Having a presence in industry events has numerous benefits for FSM software providers. You can also include a testimonial page on your website.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 13, 2024

It also depends on the time of day when you post and other factors, such as current trends or events.   Thinking outside the box drums up engagement When we created Motivating Software Engineers 101 , we already had a plan to distribute it where the ideal audience was — Reddit. 

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OpenView Labs

JULY 15, 2020

Salesforce provides history tracking for data objects, but these change events can be difficult to aggregate and understand holistically (and you’ll likely need to export them to Excel). We had to make sure that we were deriving product events accurately and in a scalable manner. We didn’t want to do that.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

for Athena which charges in the manner) Audits and Data Quality: Iceberg brings a lot of software engineering best practices to data engineering. Reducing storage can also reduce compute costs by having queries run faster (fewer credits burned) or less data scanned (e.g.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

helps founders primarily by exposing them to one another and organizing quarterly events and retreats for portfolio companies. Founders agree to a salary cap (based off of the average salary of a software engineer in the nearest major city), and can increase their salary up to that cap as the business makes money.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 25, 2022

Janz adds, “Whether it’s a conversation with HR about a new hire or with a manager about an employee’s maternity leave, we can create tickets based on specific events and take action quickly.”. But in a recent conversation with our IT Director Brian Farrell, we chatted about how tricky it can be to onboard software engineers properly.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This isn’t surprising by any means - Europe has one of the highest densities of software engineers in the world and thriving startup ecosystems are growing across the region.". Parul Singh Launches Event. Parul Singh, principal at founder collective, is putting out something cool for marketers in Boston.

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Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

By combining these techniques, application vulnerability scanning tools can effectively uncover security gaps in an application, helping software engineering managers proactively address them before they are exploited by malicious actors. How often should I be using a vulnerability scanner on my web applications and APIs?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In February 2021 Intercom’s CEO Karen Peacock and recently appointed CRO Leandra Fishman spoke at an internal staff event event and we wanted to share some of the highlights with you. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Post acquisition, Allie integrated the technology built at IQ Engines into Flickr search. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Why did Mapistry start doing their own events? How should startups think about whether events are the right strategy for them or not?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 3, 2021

In the event that a site gets hacked, there’s no better ally to have in your corner than Sucuri. Unless you’re a fairly skilled software engineer, making sure a hack is 100% cleaned up is incredibly difficult. The Wordfence central dashboard will let you track and respond to events across all of your sites in real-time.

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IT World

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Thanks to his best-selling software development management book, The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering , he became a programming and management legend. While I saw him several times at events, I only spoke to him once when he was the chairman of the University of North Carolina's computer science department.

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