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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 28, 2018

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” is a mantra I picked up and adopted at some point in high school and carried through to my first job as a software engineer. As I read this book, I asked myself: Would I make a $1M investment in the stock market after a few glasses of wine? Would you?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Stax

MAY 30, 2024

We’ve compiled these success tips to help your company manage your field services through FSM software. Integrating an all-in-one payment processing solution could help FSM software providers beat their competitors. One important aspect of product development is incorporating user feedback to improve your software features.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

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.

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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. Always invest in yourself, even if your company isn't going to. Always invest in yourself, even if your company isn't going to. Never settle and always push yourself.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

This can help your software engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities faster, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers. It can help your software engineering teams to detect and remediate vulnerabilities quickly and effectively, without you constantly having to rely on external security testing consultants.

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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.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

This can help your software engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities faster, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers. It can help your software engineering teams to detect and remediate vulnerabilities quickly and effectively, without you constantly having to rely on external security testing consultants.

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Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service Software Development Software Review 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 21, 2019

While those of us in tech have known this for decades, more software engineers are now hired outside of tech than in it. Just as CRM helped sales teams quantify their productivity through transparency and measurability, GitPrime is supercharging the practice of software engineering using the same principles.

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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.

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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.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 6, 2023

Query 12: Software Engineering for Beginners Going along the same vein of “for beginners,” the next query was: “software engineering for beginners.” It’s driving digital marketing, and no matter the size of your business, now is the time to be investing in it. These videos solve problems, which Google also likes.

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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

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?

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Valuize Consulting

APRIL 7, 2020

And, the customer will use that outcome (or lack thereof) to assess whether to renew or expand their investment in your product. SaaStastic offers a software product that helps software engineering teams reduce costs. SoftWhip is seeking a 25% reduction in the cost of its software engineering program.

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Audacix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Because you’re building and, likely, maintaining a web application that has many releases throughout the year, you need a web application vulnerability scanner that can work with your software development processes. Not every vulnerability testing tool helps your software engineers stick to their strict timelines.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Software Engineering Cloud Software Development 52

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 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

As someone involved in software engineering, when you hear words like these , you can smell the mess from a mile away: Siri ran into technological hurdles, including clunky code that took weeks to update with basic features, said John Burkey, a former Apple engineer who worked on the assistant.

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Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI ChatGPT 98

Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

A software engineer running their own One Person Company has a critical hardware failure. TER is equally a key metric for third parties considering investing in your business. If the TER fluctuates significantly, this could signal volatility in the business and be determined as an investment risk.

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Payment Methods Management Payment Solutions Payments 85

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.

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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.”.

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Audacix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Because you’re building and, likely, maintaining a web application that has many releases throughout the year, you need a web application vulnerability testing tool that can work with your software development processes. Not every web app vulnerability testing tool helps your software engineers stick to their strict timelines.

Software Review 52

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

No advanced scripting or programming is required, so there is a quick return on investment. There are automation tools, such as BetterCloud Manage, that only require a few days of training before you immediately realize value.

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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.

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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.

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