SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

But here’s the thing: 2021 wasn’t actually fast innovation. This is innovation speed, not just demand speed. IPOs every single day — literally an IPO-a-day pace we’d never seen before. Valuations hitting the moon. It was the same old SaaS products riding a massive demand wave. Slack was still the same chat app.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

If you decide to integrate an LLM into your SaaS app, your developers will need to do the heavy lifting: calling the API, handling errors or timeouts, formatting outputs, adding guardrails (to prevent unwanted content), etc. In short, its a software development project.

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SaaS Metrics

APRIL 26, 2025

From the digital realm of software development to the physical demands of land management, the need to pivot, adapt, and respond with precision is transforming the way we operate across industries. In a world where change is the only constant, agility has become more than a nice-to-haveit’s a strategic imperative.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Automated sales coaching, AI sales development Architects, Surveyors, & Cartographers 0.28 Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot. Sales Managers 0.4

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Vision and Innovation Couremanche’s vision for Procore was to digitize construction management when most of the industry still relied heavily on paper-based processes. 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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TechEmpower SaaS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Few books have chronicled how innovation takes place – and how market leaders fail to seize it – as well as Clayton Christensen ’s seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So why not take a page from the startup book and set up new avenues and opportunities so people can innovate in their job? And that’s what we’re exploring today.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

Data engineers stand on the shoulders of 70 years of software development experience and take many of the learnings from that discipline. One example is developing a data engineering lifecycle. This is our current understanding of a typical data engineering software development lifecycle.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Share an anecdote that showcases your innovative teaching methods. To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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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. Today, users can build custom workflows without code.

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TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Recovery is Extremely Hard Software development is challenging. Bottom line: If you have concerns about your development team, read the list of symptoms carefully. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas If your team shows these characteristics, then make sure they know they’re appreciated!

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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?

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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? Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Who doesn’t want to be innovative? But what is product innovation in the first place? The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. And how does it play out in real life?

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Totango

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. Then we’ll lay out seven steps to bring agile innovation to customer success. Why Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success? 7 Steps to Bring Agile Innovation to Customer Success. Define how to measure success.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

By embracing honest feedback, developing trust-based partnerships, and demonstrating a commitment to customer satisfaction, UiPath has been able to thrive within the competitive landscape of RPA and artificial intelligence software development. Focusing on team chemistry while hiring people outside your field is significant.

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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. The pace of innovation in AI today is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my career. 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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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.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. It is full-service agile software development, UI/UX and data science consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. In 2016, she moved to Hong Kong to head Innovation at HSBC.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2020

I also really like being a part of multiple steps in the innovation process, and I enjoy the way our teams are organized. I really enjoyed customizing my own profile, and that’s what drew me into wanting to learn more about how coding and how software development works. I think my favorite recipe is the lasagna I make.

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Software Engineering Software Review Innovation Engineering 97

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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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.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Silicon Valley, nestled in the heart of California, stands as the epitome of innovation in the tech world. In this dynamic landscape, where companies are constantly striving for technological excellence, the concept of nearshoring software development has emerged as a strategic imperative.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an era of globalized software development, businesses increasingly turn to nearshore solutions to fuel their tech innovations. In the heart of South America, Ecuador has emerged as a dynamic epicenter for nearshore software development.

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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.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 2, 2024

But for Harness , this innovation saved 30-40% of their cloud data warehouse spend & reduced model build time by 80%. Tobiko is that solution. Tobiko enables modern data transformations by calculating only what’s needed. At small scale this may not seem important. more expensive than Tobiko to run the same pipelines.

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USIO

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Vision Behind the Partnership Usio, a leading player in the fintech space, and CodigoDelSur , a renowned software development company, have joined forces with a shared vision of delivering cutting-edge solutions that cater to the diverse needs of today’s digital world.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Mobile 130

TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Nowadays, businesses are continually seeking innovative solutions to keep up with ever-evolving technological demands. As organizations strive to remain competitive and meet their software development goals, the concept of offshore software development teams has become increasingly vital.

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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.

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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. This vision and ownership is an integral aspect of technology innovation. You may need to innovate and provide an unforeseen solution to an unforeseen problem.

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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.

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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.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Startups, the trailblazers of innovation, often find themselves facing a common challenge – assembling a strong development team that includes the right overseas software developer for startups.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Swimm, a cutting-edge continuous documentation solution provider, is helping engineering teams work in harmony and focus on innovation. He is now doing it with Swimm’s innovative continuous documentation solution. We decided that if we could figure out a solution, we would be solving one of the biggest problems in software development.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

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. Innovation 14. To overcome this challenge, the best companies continually innovate and create new products to offset the maturation and decline of existing ones.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MARCH 26, 2010

The evolution of application software development Application software development is on a similar path. Though it lacked the docks, furnaces and railroad tracks of the River Rouge facility, the earlier generation of software applications were also build through a complete vertically-integrated process.

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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.

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