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Doubling Down: Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

SaaStr

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. Why did you do the deal?

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. One of the first things that stood out at the time was JFrog’s highly efficient financial metrics.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower SaaS

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. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

By scaling your PLG motion, you can achieve higher revenue per employee because you aren’t investing as many dollars in messaging, marketing, and building the big sales teams. Selling to Developers Let’s look at software developers as your target customers, as users and buyers. Most software developers are skeptical.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. At the beginning of 2019, she became an ambassador of Moxie Future, an initiative for women investors that facilitates investment in a responsible and sustainable future.

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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). That’s the yardstick for identifying the most valuable technical debt to invest in remediation. An alternative: the Cloud Container Solutions Cloud Native Maturity Matrix.