SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So lots of folks talk about GitLab as a leading in software development and devops, but GitLab also has sort of a quieter cousin that also IPO’d: JFrog. JFrog started off as the #1 binary repository and has expanded from there as a multi-product suite for software development. That’s fairly efficient.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Check verification Process that screens checks and check-writers against a negative database at the point-of-sale (POS) when the customer presents a check as payment. Duplicate checking The policy and procedures that prevent identical sales records from being processed. Data breach Unintentional release of secure information (i.e.,

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Start implementing a dogfooding program by recruiting users from across the organization, especially those not involved in the product development. So it’s safe to say that dog food helps organizations develop their customer empathy and gain a deeper understanding of the ‘why’ behind their behaviors.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Product-Led Growth Before It Was Cool While others were building massive sales teams, Zinman pushed for a product that would sell itself. The Numbers That Matter: $10B+ Market Cap 180,000+ Customers 152% Net Dollar Retention (2023) 7x Growth in First 24 Months After IPO 1,000+ Employees Across 8 Global Offices What Did Zinman Do Differently?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Toplyne helps sales teams at product-led companies convert their freemium users! Combine user signals across product usage, billing & support to identify the hottest product-qualified leads (PQLs) for your sales team to chase. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr! Within minutes.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2021

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.” Make sure you stay true to your ideal customer to achieve optimal product development and business expansion. Keep your eyes on the prize of your ultimate ICP. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

UruIT is a top software development agency that offers services such as product discovery, web & mobile app development, product management, Machine Learning consulting, and UX design. Mixmax is the #1 sales engagement platform for the complete sales cycle. What are they all about? Where can I find the deal?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. There was also a highly efficient inbound sales model. JFrog offered 11.6

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2024

The product development life cycle is an exciting and complex process. This article will break down the stages of a product development life cycle and tools that can help you deliver a great product. TL;DR The product development life cycle is the systematic process of taking a product from an idea to its commercialization.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2024

At SaaStr’s AI Day, George Kreitler, Global IBM Embeddable AI Sales Leader, talks about the paradox of AI, three equations that relate to the world productivity and AI, a little math to help guide the next decade, top use cases, and the importance of responsible AI.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

software development teams had to rely on a limited number of geographic locations. This exposed them to risk: risk that they couldn’t get the right talent, risk that they couldn’t sale their teams appropriately, and risk that they were missing out on […]

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. In 2012, she became Assistant VP at JJL Overseas Education in Beijing, soon enough becoming its VP of Global Development. She is in charge of the full SaaS solution sales cycle. Jessica Liu. Maxine Ryan. Anita Varshney.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. What is product development?

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

You will find articles that cover topics from branding to pricing and from developing your product to marketing it. If you have an MVP, you have developed your core product feature and are ready to get feedback from initial users. How To Deal With Software Development By Embracing The Slow Down Strategy , Incredo.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Mid-market and enterprise sales deals are undeniably complex. Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals. While it was designed for software development, its principles are just as relevant to sales. This way, we wouldn’t get lost in the weeds.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Semantic understanding of code and ephemeral developer environments enables data engineers to reduce costs and work more fluidly together (SQLMesh).

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . 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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SaaS Metrics

APRIL 13, 2021

The ability to develop embedded software requires great skills and creativity. In the modern digital world, competition is great amongst the embedded software companies worldwide. Therefore, each embedded software company invests highly in hiring the best developers into their companies.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. Read on for a cursory overview of how Agile can be applied to creating sales content along with a few tips for getting started.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the fascinating journey of UiPath, a pioneer in robotic process automation (RPA) software that has revolutionized how enterprises automate repetitive tasks. The BPO company used a competitor but wanted easy-to-use software to create process automation, so they called Dines up in Romania.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 26, 2016

The sales team has a webpage. Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. One could argue this is a reflection of two forces: the growing size of the engineering team and the rise of devops where developers are responsible not only for coding but also quality assurance and operations. Hence microservices.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A $1B Acquisition with a Singular Leader for Both Sales and Customer Success In 2017, tech leader Vikas Bhambry found himself at a crossroads. Kustomer, a SaaS startup navigating leadership changes, unexpectedly handed him the reins to both sales and customer experience/success. Lets get into it. Lets get into it. Heres my number.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales onboarding – every company does it, but few do it as well as they’d like. According to a report from The Sales Management Association, 62% of companies consider themselves to be ineffective at onboarding. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. This need for speed gave way to agile development methods.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2022

UserTesting has opened offices in EMEA and APAC but has a bit lower international growth than I’d expect, given how global software development is now. Didn’t add an enterprise sales force until 2016 (9 years after founding), didn’t add “enterprise platform” until 2012. Room to grow.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

“We’re looking for a strategic rockstar sales rep who knows how to leverage and optimize our customers’ digital transformation to really move the needle!”. There are sales buzzwords that we love and some that we really hate. When you use sales buzzwords correctly, you’ll sound like you’re an industry insider. Optimize sales!

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Pre product/market fit I’ve written about it before in my posts about sales and unscalable hacks : In the very beginning, when you’re in the process of finishing the first version of your product and trying to get the first customers, you shouldn’t worry too much about metrics. Let’s have a closer look at each of the three phases.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Elizabeth Pemmerl currently serves as GitHub’s Chief Revenue Officer, where she oversees all facets of the company’s go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, including sales, support, and operations. The impact of AI on GitHub’s business and the future of software development. Brought to you by Orum.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We recently spoke with several software developers and asked them what they thought about protecting customer information and preventing data breaches during checkout. Aside from using SSL certificates and ensuring your website is PCI-DSS compliant, here are seven other ways software developers can create a more secure checkout.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 29, 2021

When it comes to selling and marketing software to developers, tried-and-true traditional B2B tactics just plain don’t work. After analyzing patterns in publicly traded companies and studying how developers buy software (hint: they don’t like to be sold to), we compiled our research into The Developer-Focused Go-to-Market Playbook.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

Hubspot is an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Massachusetts. Prior to this, he was a Venture Partner at Longworth Ventures, VP of Sales at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft.). Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. We know that conversion rates for SaaS and software companies will vary by 30% or more just based on the checkout experience. Is it the interface? Conversion optimization options?

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FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

And so I think there are a lot of self-taught developers that just don’t know. And if you… hire a web developer or web agency that’s never heard of accessibility or doesn’t say to you, hey, this is important, just like privacy policies. developers, they’re just average people. So, but yeah.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

OKRs were first developed by Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, and they consist of a clearly defined goal (objective) and measures to track achievement of that goal (key results). Horizons Framework Another innovation model is the Horizons Framework developed by McKinsey. Source: ThinkGrowth 2. Source: McKinsey 17.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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