TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If you run a startup or high growth software company, you know that innovation is key—it's what sets you apart from the competition and helps you grow faster than the rest.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Any startup can become a champion, but only if they stack their bench with first-round draft picks. In other words, in the highly competitive software industry, simply hiring any random software developer won’t do.

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TurnKey Labs

APRIL 29, 2023

If you run a startup or high growth software company, you know that innovation is key—it's what sets you apart from the competition and helps you grow faster than the rest.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and in many ways, that rings true for startups – especially when it comes to finding your foothold in the market. We’ve created a list of the 10 best startup conferences to attend in 2024. But first, let’s take a look at what these conferences can mean for startups.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and in many ways, that rings true for startups – especially when it comes to finding your foothold in the market. We’ve created a list of the 10 best startup conferences to attend in 2024. But first, let’s take a look at what these conferences can mean for startups.

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TurnKey Labs

MARCH 2, 2023

As a technology leader, you can develop software in many different ways — all of which have their own specific pros and cons. But hiring top talent is important regardless of which route you choose. Should you hire only onshore or offshore? Should you build your own team, use an agency or consider Toptal alternatives? […]

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 21, 2024

But what exactly are these services, and should your startup business be using them? One way to think of Software as a Service (SaaS) is as renting software instead of owning it. Startup businesses usually look towards SaaS when they need to scale quickly, reduce IT overhead, or access sophisticated tools without huge costs.

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Are you looking for an efficient way to source top development talent without having to jump through all the traditional (and tedious!) Are you seeking a cost-effective and flexible way to increase your software development capabilities? hiring hoops? If the answer is yes to either – or both! –

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TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the past, companies were limited to hiring within their local market, making it difficult to expand and scale their development team. However, with the rise of offshoring services, startups now have the ability to build remote global software development hubs and hire specialized […]

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TurnKey Labs

MAY 20, 2023

In the past, companies were limited to hiring within their local market, making it difficult to expand and scale their development team. However, with the rise of offshoring services, startups now have the ability to build remote global software development hubs and hire specialized […]

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Note that the x-axis is not a true-to-scale representation of time elapsed. For a true-to-scale representation I would have to add much more space between the Series A and the Series B and between the Series B and the Series C. Web analytics software, billing systems, self-made databases,), which often leads to inconsistencies.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

Ten years ago, no one would have guessed Europe would generate the largest software IPO globally, yet UiPath has done it, and net retention is 144%. At SaaStr Europa, UiPath’s Dines shared five insights from growing a company from nothing, so other founders can learn what it takes to scale a SaaS startup to $1B+ ARR.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The founders named their startup JFrog because a frog is agile and always leaping forward. JFrog is the pioneer of Continuous Software Release Management, or CSRM. Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. JFrog offered 11.6

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TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence is a software development trend that will continue to shape all of our lives for the next several decades.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. To understand why Run Less Software is so important, let’s map out the battlefield, the armies on it, their missions and their strategies. Innovative startups.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2021

The pace of startup life can be hectic, so it’s valuable to go back to basics every once in a while. But Wong offers a word of caution: “If you don’t get your ICP right, you kind of become this custom software development shop for your top customers.” Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 12, 2023

As any successful founder will tell you, building a thriving tech startup requires assembling a talented team of software developers who are dedicated, skilled, and aligned with your product vision.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 24, 2024

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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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2021

From his background in software development and project management, Farhan learned how a data-driven approach is key when it comes to scaling your business – but for this to be effective, you need to keep your customer at the heart of everything you do. Dee Reddy: Farhan, you are so very welcome along to Scale by Intercom today.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. His session focused on scaling an open culture. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. Y Combinator is a seed accelerator.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

They can scale up or down as required. Provide easy, fast, and cost-effective solutions to manage workload without having to deploy in-house hardware or software. Testing and Development: IaaS solutions make it quicker and more cost-effective for companies to set up and scale their testing and development environments.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

In companies without a design DNA , Jeff recommends creating an “in-house startup,” where a small design team innovates around a challenge and proves its worth by positively impacting customers. We miss the startup days when we could just make decisions more quickly, and we could react in a more nimble fashion’”.

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TurnKey Labs

AUGUST 29, 2023

” Especially when considering software development outsourcing, effective time management and using time zone management tools become pivotal for seamless collaboration and project success. There’s a saying in the business world, “Time is money.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We brought together some of the best AI founders and leaders—from those scaling the underlying foundation models to those building products that could transform entire industries—for a series of conversations on where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in the field. . You have this perverse economy of scale.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Most massive software companies structure themselves with an office of the CEO, which allocates capital to different business units. There are three paths I’ve seen to achieve this scale: The dominant path of the last ten years: focus on a single product until the company is roughly at $100m in ARR, then build adjacent products.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. The 2012 New York startup community was very small, and it was very tight. And so we did that a lot.

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The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Contentful , the content infrastructure startup, today announced it secured $28 million in Series C financing. Sascha Konietzke, the CEO and co-founder of Contentful commented: “We’re living in the time of a Software Industrial Revolution, and Contentful is right in the middle of the action. Berlin-based Contentful? ?raises?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

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User Pilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. A product team structure is how a business organizes the product team to best support software development.

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Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

Does a SaaS startup need to be SOC 2 compliant? B2B technology startups can use SOC 2 compliance to gain and reach enterprise customers , because typically these customers require security procedures with rigorous monitoring procedures. This applies to a lot of startups as well as large businesses.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Now, Stripe offers it. He laughed.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

I started just with regular software development, doing software of different kinds. I had my own startup, but then really it was the internet that changed everything. I think the very first thing that we’re actually starting to be using AI at scale is developer productivity, back to developers, right?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. High code churn is normal in the early days of the software development lifecycle, but this should reduce as your release date approaches. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

However, such a system will gradually be less resilient to technical issues, and more challenging to scale or upgrade – until you reach the point when a complete rewrite is necessary. This eventually leads to product failure, and in the case of smaller startups – business failure. Finding the product-market fit.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. It often occurs when software developers and engineers take shortcuts, resulting in design flaws and code that’s harder to maintain than it needs to be.

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