Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It distracts the team from writing new features + fixing bugs. You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Wait… that’s bad news. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development.

AWS 115

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

Sales Hiring 214

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 214

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Compute engine (query engine): Performs the actual data retrieval. The Hive engine gave us more efficient access patterns to data lake storage.

Data 130

Data Government Scale AWS 130

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

SaaS Payments 226

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 226

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.

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) 52

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

Scale 131

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 131

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the event that there is an issue, it’s resolved quickly by the managed WordPress hosting support team. 1 – WP Engine — The Best Overall Managed WordPress Hosting. . #1 1 – WP Engine — The Best Overall Managed WordPress Hosting. WP Engine has a reputation for “just handling” issues.

Management 137

Management Technical Review Outsourced Development Engineering 137

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. Eoghan would do visual design; Ciaran, David, and then later on, Darragh, would start to engineer it. Paul: Hey Des, glad to be here.

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. Eoghan would do visual design; Ciaran, David, and then later on, Darragh, would start to engineer it. Paul: Hey Des, glad to be here.

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

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. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of product analysis is to better understand its strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate how effective it is at satisfying user needs , and to identify areas for improvement. Product analysis benefits teams from across the organization, including your product , marketing , customer success , and UX design colleagues.

Underperforming Technical Team 86

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Retention 86

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

Part-Time VPE 222

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 222

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, we’ve had a great team. They could solve that by saying, “Hey, let’s put our product in more data centers in AWS,” or in whatever hosting product they were using. It’s not like, “I’m going to get really good at this particular thing.” Academics are paid to do that.

Data 151

Data Airlines AWS Underperforming Technical Team 151

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB compliance 160

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. 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.

Part-Time VPE 102

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

Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. You might end up building a whole team in-house to support the open source tool of your choice, which, one would think, defeats the purpose of going open source in the first place?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Cloud Software Engineering 52

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In reality, many devices and computing systems have weak or ineffective authentication, or authentication is not properly configured by administrators, resulting in severe security risks. Secure authentication mechanisms are necessary to enable easy development, prevent accidental data exposure, and protect against cyber attacks.

Strategy 98

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Application Development Mobile 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. The growth is top 3%.

Sales Recruiting 179

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 179

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

SaaS ensures that consumers are always up to date with the latest version, while also ensuring that developers have a continuing source of revenue with which to maintain their product. Platform as a service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete environment for development and deployment over the internet. What is PaaS?

Cloud 59

Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. While Userpilot is developing funnel analysis functionality, you can achieve the same results by tagging and tracking Goals. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria.

Software Review 88

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review 88

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle. Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity AWS Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Scale 114

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 114

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Who sales development should report to (spoiler: it’s marketing). Who should sales development report to? [15:20]. We talk about the history of marketing, who sales development should report to, all of it. Is it engineering? I have about 140 folks and that includes the sales development reps. powered by Sounder.

Sales Recruiting 82

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 82

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 13, 2024

We also often overwhelmed the database leading to poor frontend response times. To scale we’ve been using database sharding since the application’s inception: A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Adding new threads didn’t help. How did we arrive to such a situation?

Scale 52

Scale Systems Review AWS Technical Review 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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. Now, before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors.

VP of Engineering 81

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 81

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Open-source communities typically fall into one of two buckets: user communities or developer communities.

Business 52

Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team. Justin Bedecarre: So, it truly has to be employee-led and it emphasizes choice.

Sales Recruiting 150

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 150

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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

It doesn’t matter what the size of the team is, they can do it all, plan projects, conduct meeting, and multi-task. Teams need to collaborate for ideas, execute projects, and increase knowledge to cultivate stellar work. This is why teams and organizations prefer Ayoa because it takes online collaborative whiteboards to a new level.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Payment Methods 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). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Customer Advisory Group for feature suggestions and direct facetime with the Product and Engineering teams with priority access to features and planned deployments. The expense policy has been pushed by a comprehensive engine to enforce them on any expense or employee factors. Fyle runs on AWS. In-app live chat support.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Payment Methods 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 136

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

Underperforming Technical Team 222

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Payment Methods Payments 222

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

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. Our first brand client in China was Intel.

Payment Solutions 118

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 118