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Building Intercom from home: Software delivery in challenging times

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom’s entire software delivery system is built on the ability to move fast, react to change and rollback, or roll forward, rapidly in the case of something unexpected happening. Our software delivery systems and operations are robust and well understood internally. The value of the familiar.

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Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose (Pod 554 + Video)

SaaStr

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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SaaStr Podcast 453 (and Video): Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive With Jyoti Bansal

SaaStr

Bansal felt passionate about enhanced software delivery, the need that Harness meets for developers. But then, you know you can’t just build great products; you have to combine them with building great teams. That builds great business.”. Finally, you should also really have a passion for the problem your product solves.

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How Big is a Typical Software Company Acquisition?

Tom Tunguz

Year to date, $54B worth of software companies have been acquired. 2016 is on pace to match the past three years of software acquisition trends which vary from $64B-$70B. Over the course of those six years, the median acquisition price of a software company has varied between $40M and $80M and in 2016 has settled to about $60M.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there. Customer-centric software delivery SaaS sets solving customer problems as its north star. It makes no difference to anyone but you.

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Software delivery is measured by results, not just feature velocity. Read more about this in my prior post.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors.

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