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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. The User Stories at the core of Agile/Scrum development style are essential for translating customer intent into feature development.