SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

with Peter Fernandez, COO & Co-Founder at Sirius Support Innovative businesses, investing, m&a and meeting great people with Paul Evans, EGM, Corporate Development at Xero SaaS distribution for SMBs in the African continent with Karan Bathija, VP, Customer Success at Terragon Limited PLUS 13 more Braindates that are ALREADY FULL!

VP of Engineering 298

VP of Engineering Technical Cofounder Outsourcing Services CTO Coach 298

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. But in the day-to-day operations of the majority of businesses, classic sales and marketing motions are the classical ones; and the transition has proved more fundamental and a longer investment to achieve.

Scale 275

Scale Blockchain Banking Machine Learning 275

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since the early years of the crypto movement, software engineers have been primarily focused on building and enhancing base-layer infrastructure that can support applications.

Investment 88

Investment Software Engineering Engineering Software 88

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

Returning to Google reminded me that great companies constantly invest in their people, helping them to understand the world inside the company and outside the company. One could argue the entire open-source movement is a giant continuing education program for software engineers. The loyalty engendered is hard to overstate.

Investment 100

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

No longer are they just post-analysis teams; they are now becoming software engineering teams that use data to build products. To address this challenge, many organizations are investing in upskilling their data teams, providing them with the training and resources they need to work effectively with security teams.

Government 213

Government compliance Software Engineering Engineering 213

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2017

Sometimes, I blend in some podcasts from time to time including Invest Like the Best and Software Engineering Daily. I’m trying to be funnier, but it’s not working. But at least I’m laughing while maneuvering through SOMA morning traffic. I also try to schedule telephone calls. Until last week.

Software Engineering 184

Software Engineering Engineering Technology Investment 184

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The SMB markets can test out features that aren’t built to scale yet, and as they succeed, Greenhouse invests in them and rolls them out to Enterprise customers. The swing nature is true for where to invest marketing dollars, so founders need to be thoughtful when running a portfolio of bets.

Sales Hiring 286

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 286

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Hiring is expensive, and there’s nothing worse than losing an employee prior to seeing the impact of your investment come through. . The same could be true for a software engineer at her home office at 9:00 pm at night. . That’s something you can’t ignore. It’s simply not true anymore. In fact, I’ve seen this for myself.

Business 210

Business Software Engineering Company Culture Retention 210

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. It’s also easy to over- or under- invest in the technology. It’s also easy to over- or under- invest in the technology. It’s hard to balance investment optimally across ML, product, engineering, and design.

Artificial Intelligence 281

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Underperforming Technical Team Development 281

Incredo

JULY 8, 2019

Project management, customer relationship management, email automation, live chat are among the most popular software examples. The team of software engineers and testers is the main asset of any SaaS company – they develop, test and improve the product so the company can attract more and more interested users.

Outsourcing Services 200

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Sales Hiring 200

Trint

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Sam Role in Trint: Associate Software Engineer Time at Trint: 2.5 What concerns did you have before joining: I’m always curious about leadership’s investment in data as an asset and how that leads to an investment in tools and people to create a more mature data-driven organization.

Software Engineering 130

Software Engineering Engineering Interviewing Travel 130

FastSpring

MAY 6, 2022

Data science has a key difference from software engineering. In software engineering, when you work on an existing system, you can build on what past coders have done before you. I learned a lot listening to Cedric’s story. Here are five of my biggest takeaways from the interview: 1. Data Formulas Are Subtly Unique.

Data 147

Data Scale Sales Hiring Software Engineering 147

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Investing in Instacart was perhaps the hardest decision I had to make as a venture capitalist. Instacart was taking a unique approach to tackling this category, using a four-sided marketplace dynamic: By partnering with physical grocers, they were able to leverage those partners’ existing investments in construction and inventory.

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

Its Software Engineering Bootcamp says you’ll be able to “become a software engineer, guaranteed.”. There are also options to pay monthly, defer payments (paying monthly once you land a software engineering job; if you don’t get a job in six months, you don’t pay), or obtain a low-interest loan. Springboard.

Payment Methods 108

Payment Methods Cybersecurity Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 108

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

He says the IT department of the future will be like the HR department for AI agents We’ll be managing and ’training’ these agents to work with our data Transition: This change starts first within the engineering org Slide 9 Clearing: Historically, there’s been a divide between software engineering and AI/ML teams.

Data 100

Data AI Search Scale Software Engineering 100

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. People have invested a lot in making them scale, and you can run them much bigger.

Artificial Intelligence 249

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

To achieve our mission of making internet business personal and scaling to support larger and larger customers, we have been continually, thoughtfully, and carefully investing in our people, systems, and processes to maintain Intercom’s high standards of availability. Without rock solid availability, nothing else matters.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Management Systems Review 118

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

My biggest takeaway from metrics after being on the boards of a number of SaaS companies investing in 27 different companies is that churn becomes the biggest killer over time. One of the things that we did do a good job was investing in our people. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. And it worked great.

Sales Recruiting 195

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 195

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers. They are called product engineers. Investing in things that enable us to move faster and leaner for the long term.

Outsourcing Services 224

Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. But numbers alone won’t get investment. I strolled around and struggled to understand what a lot of the talk was about. It made me feel more foreign than when I’d reported abroad.

Branding 130

Branding Advertising Underperforming Technical Team VP of Engineering 130

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.

Acquisition 169

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 169

Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When done right, marketing can be about more than return on investment or brand metrics. 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. Actually, no.

Artificial Intelligence 136

Artificial Intelligence Marketing Scale Sales Recruiting 136

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

And we need to find a way to acknowledge these folks, and so I talk to Rick Boone, Senior Software Engineer and Strategic Advisor to the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, who’s a great example of this. They’re almost doing the same work that the manager is doing, but they have no direct reports.

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

Engineers inherently know that when tech debt piles up, you need to invest in fixing it. As engineers we’re so focused on the how, the problem solving around a particular problem. I thought, “If this guy can do it with a nuclear submarine, we can definitely do it with the internet and software.”.

Engineering 135

Engineering Leadership Software Review Technical Review 135

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

These items end up in the trash, hardly a worthy investment of your firm’s marketing and sales budgets. . I started working for a promotional products company several months ago with many of the same concerns and reservations that our account executives deal with daily: Are promotional products sensible investments for our brand?

Wireless 111

Wireless Data Sales Branding 111

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Hi inov also manages SNCF Digital Ventures, a corporate fund intended to invest in startups that accelerate the group’s digital transformation.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

Insurance limitations When thinking about price implications in reimbursed healthcare, the rub is not just the net price of the drug itself, but the time horizon over which the insurance plan achieves payback for that investment. But health insurance churn rates can be relatively high.

Technical Review 22

Technical Review Payment Solutions Payment Services Healthcare 22

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.” Included in the investment docs is a predetermined percentage of ownership allocated to the fund should you choose to sell your company.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. for Athena which charges in the manner) Audits and Data Quality: Iceberg brings a lot of software engineering best practices to data engineering.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

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. By investing in a tool like Agorapulse to manage your comments. Brainscape’s research shows you can save eight working days a year if you use keyboard shortcuts. The average time saved is 2.28

Social Media 145

Social Media Outsourcing Services Marketing Branding 145

Audacix

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The two most commonly cited reasons by CTOs, software engineering managers and SaaS executives for not conducting penetration tests on their cloud software and mobile apps are: We've never been hacked - why would we spend on penetration testing? Are you being ignorant about investing in penetration testing?

Payment Solutions 84

Payment Solutions Mobile SaaS Payments Payment Services 84

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

I believe pricing is not enough … There’s not enough investment from companies going into pricing and thinking about pricing. In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on? Now back to the three levers now.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. The lack of self awareness is real.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

As David Johnson, Senior Software Engineer, puts it, “My motivation for working at Stax for eight plus years has primarily been the culture and the ability to make a measurable impact. Ongoing process refinements and investments in new solutions We continue to refine and build processes to drive efficiency and scale.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

Buffer Resources

JUNE 13, 2024

  How to choose the right distribution channels Owned channels offer the most flexibility and control but also require a significant time investment. For instance, it may be worth investing extra money in paid distribution when running a sale. Consider your marketing goals, too.

Strategy 131

Strategy Social Media Development Team Review Software Review 131

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This is especially likely if you’re an introvert or still undecided on whether or not LinkedIn is “right” for you and worth investing time and effort into.  For instance, I’m a software engineer turned marketer.   Dig deeper into your personal life experiences.

Social Media 131

Social Media Strategy Consulting Content Marketing 131

30 Day Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2021

Nils began by bouncing around between professions (from a software engineer to a Xerox sales rep), looking for work to cultivate his abilities. Nils began by bouncing around between professions (from a software engineer to a Xerox sales rep), looking for work to cultivate his abilities.

Leadership 52

Leadership Software Engineering B2B Engineering 52