Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Technology innovations swing to a pendulum’s cadence. Sometimes innovations begin with infrastructure changes and reverberate up the stack. Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. When will we see rapid speciation?

DevOps as a Service 253

DevOps as a Service Blockchain Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 253

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. A clear commitment to consistent innovation! #8. So GitLab is one of those ones that sort of … always was doing well.

Outsourced Development 67

Outsourced Development Software Development Innovation Cloud 67

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. Executive teams and boards are demanding innovation with LLMs and data. Software startups are rising to meet the need.

Artificial Intelligence 228

Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 228

SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. The pace of innovation in AI today is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my career. All of our Managing Directors on the early team have both founded companies and operate at scale.

Management 273

Management CTO Hire New CTO CTO 273

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 2, 2024

At small scale this may not seem important. But for Harness , this innovation saved 30-40% of their cloud data warehouse spend & reduced model build time by 80%. As data has become a critical component of analytics & production systems, data engineers require more sophisticated tools to manage their data transformations.

Scale 185

Scale Investment Finance Software Development 185

Totango

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. This gains you the ability to implement CS at scale, giving you a winning edge over competitors who are still a generation or two behind in their deployment of CS automation. Why Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success?

Innovation 103

Innovation Customer Success Government Scale 103

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. To understand why Run Less Software is so important, let’s map out the battlefield, the armies on it, their missions and their strategies. Innovative startups.

Outsourcing Services 224

Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second. He gets what goes on in a developer’s brain and the detailed process of building software, but he understands that businesses are motivated to move quickly. ” and receive an answer that sounds like gibberish to you.

Sales Recruiting 239

Sales Recruiting Development Software Review Management 239

SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2022

So UserTesting is a case study on how great SaaS can be (innovating and creating a market leader, and driving it to $160m+ ARR) … and also hard SaaS can be. UserTesting has opened offices in EMEA and APAC but has a bit lower international growth than I’d expect, given how global software development is now.

Scale 189

Scale SMB Enterprise Pricing 189

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Economies of scale. Innovation 14.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. For the last mile of software development, productivity is measured in the delivery of results over time.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Scale Benchmarks 130

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Swimm, a cutting-edge continuous documentation solution provider, is helping engineering teams work in harmony and focus on innovation. With more and more SaaS companies adopting this technology on a global scale, Swimm has also announced an impressive 27.6M He is now doing it with Swimm’s innovative continuous documentation solution.

Development 124

Development Innovation Interviewing Cybersecurity 124

TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Colombia has an exciting and quickly growing software development industry that’s taking the development world by storm. This mid-sized country in South America is churning out extraordinary new software projects and products, and pushing the boundaries of tech innovation.

Software Development 52

Software Development Development Software Innovation 52

TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If you run a startup or high growth software company, you know that innovation is key—it's what sets you apart from the competition and helps you grow faster than the rest.

Software Development 52

Software Development Software Development Innovation 52

TurnKey Labs

APRIL 29, 2023

If you run a startup or high growth software company, you know that innovation is key—it's what sets you apart from the competition and helps you grow faster than the rest.

Software Development 52

Software Development Software Development Innovation 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. Larger teams or advanced stages: As companies scale, the scope of each function typically grows to the point where separate leaders are more effective. Covered: Martins journey from selling flip-flops to leading a $500M exit.

Scale 108

Scale Sales Hiring Acquisition Customer Success 108

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We brought together some of the best AI founders and leaders—from those scaling the underlying foundation models to those building products that could transform entire industries—for a series of conversations on where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in the field. You have this perverse economy of scale.

Artificial Intelligence 139

Artificial Intelligence AI Scale ChatGPT 139

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.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence DevOps as a Service Innovation Cloud 40

Frontegg

JULY 22, 2021

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are reaching 100% adoption as the world gravitates towards working from home and digitized online services. But this space is metamorphosing with the rise of SaaS self-service, the new standard in software development. How will you keep your focus on quality and innovation?

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Payment Features Scale SaaS 97

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2024

7 key stages of the product development life cycle The product development life cycle may vary depending on the scale of the product and the business involved. However, there are seven key stages that help companies define their product development process: Seven stages of the product development cycle.

Development 109

Development SaaS Marketplace as a Service Scale 109

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

Nicolle has been architecting, scaling, and leading client-centric organizations for 15+ years, creating effortless experiences that deliver value for clients and profitability for shareholders. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Dante has held several roles in higher education, consulting, and in software development.

Customer Success 79

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2019

This is a software development process for those of you who may not be familiar with it. We’re ready to develop it. And often more difficult for startups to create at scale because they tend to be expensive and you may not actually have the audience that you can pull into a room directly. Fairly easy.

Scale 142

Scale Engagement Scaling Development 142

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

If you need a solution that’s up and running within four weeks, it would be unwise to buy a software tool with a four-month implementation timeframe. To get a better idea about the time-to-implement, speak to the service provider or the software developer. Reporting Tool Availability.

Data Analysis 128

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

User Pilot

MARCH 19, 2024

A feature rollout is a software development technique involving a gradual release of new features and updates. Benefits of feature rollouts for product teams Back in the waterfall days, companies and software houses released new products only when they were ready. This changed when Agile software development came around.

Software Development 105

Software Development Scale Development Benchmarks 105

CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

Bear in mind that they are not just looking to evaluate the elegance of your software development lifecycle. . #4 Infrastructure Automation The speed and success of your product releases are a strong indicator to enterprise customers that you have well-defined, mature release trains and solid tooling for CI/CD.

Enterprise readiness 130

Enterprise readiness Enterprise Technical Review Software Review 130

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!),

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey. Mårten Mickos.

Outsourcing Services 162

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 162

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

At the heart of this transformation is a growing ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building applications that plug into broader platforms and solve specialized problems. As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2019

A lot of these businesses are 100 years old or 50 years old, and they’re really having to transition these old processes and old pieces of software into cloud products that are very, very large-scale in comparison to what even some of the largest startups have built. Software as offense.

Outsourced Development 110

Outsourced Development Development Innovation DevOps as a Service 110

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Before long, there were enough users with internet access that innovators started focusing on user demographics and spinning them into personas. But innovative marketers are starting to refine persona-based tactics with the help of machine learning and AI. In other words, why do they want what they want?

Scale 85

Scale Marketing Sales Hiring Benchmarks 85

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

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Development 109

Development Technical Review AWS AI 109

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

Scale 84

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I think that’s probably the fastest we’ve ever seen a company get to that scale. IBM was in a situation where they were really jammed. We talked about growth.

Cloud 113

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 113

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products!

Software Review 98

Software Review Software Management Azure 98

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you look at developers, we just don’t have enough of them to write all of the software that the world needs. A lot of the work that developers do is just toil, so having a tool that can help make the job of software development more delightful and to help software developers be more productive… You mentioned Meta and Llama 2.

AI 98

AI Azure New CTO Software Development 98

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Intuit’s Firm of the Future blog post published in November 2023 states: “We encourage you to consider QuickBooks Online because we have continued to innovate and improve on it. Additionally, all future innovation will happen in QuickBooks Online.”

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services Payment Methods 88

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency. It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. This lets you focus more on core activities rather than software development.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 104