Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

During an external penetration test, ethical hackers, often referred to as "white hat" hackers, use a combination of automated tools and manual testing techniques to identify weaknesses in the target's defences. For vulnerability scanning and remediation, you can add Cyber Chief to your software development and security management pipeline.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity compliance Mobile 40

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Evolving Role and Responsibilities of a CISO The CISO’s primary responsibilities include: Developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and policies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. This includes compliance with regulations like the GDPR.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Evolving Role and Responsibilities of a CISO The CISO’s primary responsibilities include: Developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and policies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. This includes compliance with regulations like the GDPR.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

CloudGeometry

MAY 22, 2021

If only some developers in the past had been more virtuous, frugal, expert, what have you, we could have… (“Closed that deal! In modern software development, velocity is the intended outcome of distributed SaaS and cloud-native environments. Neither are all developers equal. Avoided infuriating that valued customer!

software development velocity 130

software development velocity Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Cloud 130

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. To be clear, every company accumulates a certain amount of tech debt over time. Why tech debt matters.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. To be clear, every company accumulates a certain amount of tech debt over time. Why tech debt matters.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

Audacix

AUGUST 17, 2022

Pentesting-as-a-Service, or PTaaS, is an all-encompassing application security delivery model which includes automated self-service tools, secure-by-design practices and manual web app penetration testing services throughout your software development lifecycle.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Cybersecurity 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As cyber threats and attacks are getting more complex, it is the need of the hour to continuously check security measures for your software using web application security testing tools. Just investing in security testing tools is not sufficient in this day and age. This is popularly known as shift left model.

Software Review 40

Software Review DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 40

Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team? In order to get your repeat business, they forget to explain just how you can build a repeatable, scaleable and consistent application security structure within your software development teams. Why do I need a penetration test?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 52

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? They begin by quickly covering common pitfalls in decision-making, then share specific tools not to do and to do, including how to operationalize good decision hygiene into teams. How to Decide”?

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Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale Sales Hiring 82

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Keeping your customer acquisition costs low ensures that you’ll have greater profit margins, which can then be re-invested into your business and employees. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

Sales Hiring 333

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 333

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. A strategy is how a team plans to reach their overarching goals and all of the steps to get there. Managers can energize the whole team by helping secure some quick wins. “Hi! Let’s synergize our teams to create a streamlined approach that leverages our core competencies.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Sales Enablement 125

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are plenty of articles dedicated to this matter, but none offers a better solution than hiring a team of knowledgeable marketers. Perhaps, you even know when you need to start a PPC campaign and why SEO is the option that is perfect for your developing startup. How Can Kraftblick Help Your Software Company?

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Advertising SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

Software Development 40

Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

Software Development 40

Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

Audacix

AUGUST 3, 2018

Software testing has often been an afterthought for CIOs , software engineering managers and software development teams. Our Secret Toolbox will give you 10 ideas you can start exploiting straight away to tame your software testing costs and keep your team sane.

Software 63

Software Underperforming Technical Team Software Delivery Cloud 63

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection. Your team is the very pulse of your business, which is why their skillset is the most crucial factor when it comes to choosing a software tool. User Skillset.

Data Analysis 128

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. In SaaS, as you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the five user segments so you can improve product adoption and grow your business. What is the product adoption curve?

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Education 96

Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. Some of these folks will likely be developers. Not bad for a 25-week program!

Payment Methods 108

Payment Methods Cybersecurity Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 108

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity AWS Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. The tool allows you to automate repetitive tasks without needing to write your own custom code or use up software developer resources, keeping everything running smoothly for your business. Ask different teams about pain points.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As companies have started understanding the benefits of customer success, they have started rushing into the field in the hope of getting quick returns on their investment. Not only investment but a change in mindset along with continuous efforts from the whole team is required to get exponential results.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 59

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. How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise? We had a pretty big team. What are the benefits of starting in SMB?

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. She had a deep understanding of their processes and pain points and knew how to build software that would help them thrive.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 118

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The light bulb was invented in 1879, but it wasn’t until 1930 that 70% of US houses had electricity.

Artificial Intelligence 142

Artificial Intelligence AI Scale ChatGPT 142

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” When a payment fails, only two things typically happen: The payment fails and nobody from your team follows up to the point the customer churns. Your team follows up and payment is recovered. Recover is a one-stop-shop dunning software developed by us. Think about that.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

When it comes to enterprise software, the build vs. buy conundrum is a common one that many companies grapple with. Invest some time and resources upfront, and you can create a homegrown, bespoke solution. One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”.

VP of Engineering 45

VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Engineering 45

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

Incredo

MARCH 20, 2020

The Incredo team switched to a fully remote working system in September 2019. At the beginning it was a bit hard to track the progress of tasks and communicate with team members effectively. Since you started working from home, your whole team already saves around 1 hour of their day.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Systems Review Software Review 227

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. How were your company’s customer success processes created? Perhaps it was a carefully thought out initiative. Or perhaps not.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

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. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat. We talked about growth.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

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.

VP of Engineering 104

VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 104

Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I was introduced to a team of software engineers who’d been working on tech that aligned audio and text so that you could follow it like karaoke. I remember saying to the team, “We just invented the future.” Fast forward to six years.

Branding 130

Branding Advertising Underperforming Technical Team VP of Engineering 130