Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? That episode was with me and Mark interviewing Annie, and was titled “Innovating in Bets” — as is perhaps also one of the signature themes of this podcast. Good decision, bad outcome — that would be bad luck.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

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. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”. I’ll often start interviews with a simple “What’s your why?”,

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Andrew Filev. We had a pretty big team. Andrew Filev. Andy Wilson.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2021

collecting and analyzing VoC data, helps your Customer Success team improve the user onboarding process. collect VoC data outside the app with customer interviews, online surveys, social media listening, product reviews, customer website behavior. What is Voice of the Customer (VoC)? If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

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Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In my 30 years of news reporting for ABC, CBS and CBC News I traveled to more than 40 countries, dodged bullets while reporting on wars, I interviewed prime ministers and presidents. I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I ran one of my interviews through it. I was intrigued.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When deployed correctly, Product Ownership is an invaluable role that provides tactical support to your development team, translates customer value, goals and pain points into product improvements, and leads effective and impactful development sprints. After I graduated from university, I landed in Business Analysis.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In short, web app security needs you to build a culture of software security best practices in your development team. Otherwise, you could be missing an opportunity to catch on with the rest of the leading software development companies. Be it on your LinkedIn or in your next interview.

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GetUplift

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyway, but what we do here is we work a lot with in-house teams. If your goals are event-based, which are good, or destination-based, which are bad. Your web developer’s traffic, your agency’s traffic, none of that should be in there. Unfortunately, what happens is that people are really bad at closing tabs.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? ” A technological example makes this clear.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

Justin Kan : It seems like kind of a renewed emphasis or maybe a new emphasis on mental health and building a different kind of company, like one that’s maybe a little bit more balanced and focused on kind of the holistic experience of being a member of the team is something that’s intrinsic to both you guys’s companies.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. We do thousands of customer interviews every year, both with the individual and with the B2B buyers that buy our product. This won’t be that bad.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Before co-founding Force, he was SVP of International Sales Operations for PTC, a leading software developer for content, product life cycle management. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with John Kaplan from Force Management. You got to own the good about it, you got to own bad about it.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2021

Let’s say you’re 22 years old and you don’t have a lot of money, well, you’re likely going to see very few opportunities to invest, and most of those opportunities are going to be bad. They advise us to surround yourself with people that have different strengths and different weaknesses. This is terrible advice.

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