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The Evolution of DevOps in Cloud Application Development

How To Buy Saas

In today’s moving software development arena the DevOps movement stands out as a game changer bridging the gap, between development and operations teams. This collaboration aims to boost teamwork streamline operations and speed up software delivery.

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When should you hire a CFO?

SaaSHolic

Let’s dive into it: Pre-Revenue → You In the earliest days, successful founders need to be extremely efficient: drive as much productivity as possible with the few resources they have until they “hit something.” It just so happens that these CEOs typically prioritize pressing operational needs (a sales rep, a developer, etc.),

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International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

InsightSquared

I’ve worked in the tech and startup space for over 15 years. I recently joined InsightSquared in Q4 2020 after 4 years of consulting independently for small and medium sized businesses; I focused mainly on operational efficiency and maximizing profit. . Liz Brown – Services Architect.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

Kellblog

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations. They know how to do this.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

OPEXEngine

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. First, some SaaS companies deliberately run with a low set-up product, little to no services, and a customer success team that takes care of implementation issues. They know how to do this.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin.