Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Microsoft launched Azure in 2010, and Google launched GCP to the public in 2011 (they launched a preview of Google App Engine in 2008, but made it publicly available in 2011).

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Engineers are more productive because Github’s Copilot writes 50% of code. Some of that is by launching add-on products that can be priced as subscription fees or transactional per conversation. They just happened to launch AWS and ended up capturing way more value just in themselves than the entire on-prem storage market before them.

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. While the first generation of recurring revenue was defined by simple subscriptions—think Netflix’s original “one-size-fits-all” $7.99 From Static Subscriptions To The Relationship Economy.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Team expertise.

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Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Putting together a job description for a Growth Engineer? The below tidbits are taken from 30+ job descriptions for Growth Engineers, all from tech companies such as Asana, Airbnb, AdRoll, Cybercoders, Mircosoft, UXPin, and Zenefits, to name a few. What do all these job descriptions tell us about growth engineering? Innovative.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2021, ChartMogul experienced a transformative shift in data strategy when we introduced a dedicated data engineering team. Updating the data engineering stack streamlined data processing; reducing the time and effort invested in manual data handling.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

It’s easy to get lost in the noise of “SaaS monetization makes the world go round,” “Subscriptions mean printing money,” and other hype. The more money you will have left to add more customers, get them committed to subscriptions, and keep them away from your competitors. So why put it on our shortlist?

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Those awesome new tricks that seem to show up out of nowhere within cloud-first applications like Google Workplace, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, Stripe, the iPhone, and Amazon (both eCommerce and AWS)?

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ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

Google Compute Engine (GCE), Digital Ocean, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are all good examples of IaaS. Some PaaS examples include Windows Azure, Google App Engine, and Force.com. Since SaaS is typically subscription-based (aka, no licensing fees) there are lower costs upfront. Cheaper upfront. Minimal commitment.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

The majority of COGS (revenue less COGS = gross profit) fall in hosting costs (ie AWS), and some customer support. Or hire less engineers but write more code with tools like GitHub Copilot. Or hire less data engineers but write more SQL queries. What do I mean by this? The list goes on.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

” Was obsessed with mathematics, went to college at 16, became an engineer. Thought I wanted to be an engineer, quickly realized I actually prefer the customer facing side of the startup world. Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan. There’s no UX engineer.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

JUNE 3, 2017

When they talk about their websites, I find that marketing people fall into two groups: One group thinks their website is awful. A trained sales team and even support engineers may need to be part of the effort to win the business. SaaS companies need to get people to actually use the solution, renew their subscription, and upgrade.

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams In fact, it is entirely reasonable to ask about “Security and _” for almost any aspect of your SaaS application and platform. Nothing scares an enterprise customer like security risk. It’s not just that enterprises are rich targets. How do you respond?

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Quickbooks and Xero are accounting SaaS products that help you send invoices, track expenses, and process payroll. Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS providers have ready-to-use software applications over the internet on a subscription basis. Notable PaaS providers include Google App Engine, Adobe Commerce, and Heroku.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

One of the benefits of the subscription model is that it holds vendors accountable for the services they provide. Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.”

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 283

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Engineering (R&D). one related to selling your main product such as subscription services, and another for billings from your onboarding/consulting sales. Engineering. The benefits of separating Engineering from your General & Admin expenses are less obvious, but I’d still recommend doing it. Engineering.

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Table Of Contents As a software engineering leader, you know application security is no longer an activity that you can palm off to someone else. With the increasing number of sensitive data security breaches, it's essential to have the right automated application security tools in place to protect your software.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2024

It includes subscription plans, purchase frequency, total spending, etc. You can record actions like clicks, text inputs, and form submissions without manually tagging them or waiting for your busy engineers. Purchase history : This data covers a customer’s financial interaction with your brand.

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Data Social Media Interviewing User Experience 105

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Hreflang is a metadata tag that tells a search engine which language and geographical region a webpage is targeting. So we look at that as a factor.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. Building the leading subscriptions analytics platform means listening to our customers, and implementing changes to the product that bring them the most value. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Disappearing photos however was not a good fit for either of those models, and likely best lent itself to subscriptions and virtual goods, both largely unproven at consumer internet scale. Figma became a tool not just designers to collaborate, but for those designers to collaborate with their peers in engineering and product.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. The shift to mobile, the shift to subscriptions – especially with our gaming partners – was very similar.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

Some SaaS products allow the user to download the application, but require an internet connection to confirm their subscription for it to operate. Google App Engine — Google's cloud platform allows developers to use all the most common development tools in the cloud. We are not considering those in our comparison of cloud services.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This helps you to: Reduce human error Override Quickbooks suggestion engine Human error is particularly prevalent with outsourced accountants without a bookkeeper dedicated to your company. Quickbooks suggestion engine can get things right once you have “trained” it a little. This is, overstated hosting costs.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

But the shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS. AWS takes this a step further by allowing a customer to commit in advance, but still pay for their usage as it happens. In a usage-based model, forecasting isn’t as visible as in a pure subscription model.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). In-product guides and email cadences are low cost ways of steering users towards activation without engineering work or new customer success headcount.

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Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

We offer a 20% discount on all plans for annual subscriptions , providing advanced features and additional value for long-term users. Integrations PostHog works well with Kafka, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, Tableau, and Looker. Recommendation engine: Suggest tailored products or content to users.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 52

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Their potential power compelled engineers to extend the available range of apps’ features and significantly simplify the workflow process. Platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in 2006, offered scalable infrastructure that could handle growth without performance issues, revolutionizing IT operations.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

Cloud computing services provide on-demand solutions and IT resources to companies via the Internet with pay-as-you-go or subscription-based pricing models. This may include infrastructural support like storage, security, network equipment, and data centers, as well as comprehensive applications built to perform specific tasks.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. If you think about your DevOps, moving from one cloud infrastructure setup to another is quite a demanding task that requires resources and manpower. Dig Deep Into Your Financials.

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SaaS DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). In-product guides and email cadences are low cost ways of steering users towards activation without engineering work or new customer success headcount.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

Outseta

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Realizing that Codewars had helped them develop a strong methodology for assessing coding ability, the founders then pivoted and turned that same assessment methodology into a platform that companies use for hiring software engineers. But as that case is made, the market pull for the product is enormous.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: During the pandemic, HelloOffice, my company has promoted engineering manager, [Jaziel 00:17:46] out of Dallas, our first remote engineering manager. Is AWS in the lead? It’s easy to buy more and it’s easy to have recurring subscriptions. And it’s been working out phenomenally.

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