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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

Codeium has built a generative AI coding assistant Windsurf that integrates across any IDE and supports over 70 programming languages. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average. Technical customers report that tasks that previously took weeks are now completed in hours.

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How to Avoid a Bad VC Investor with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Ask the founders this question when you interview them: How supportive has X person been as an investor? VCs used to always have meals with founders when they gave them a term sheet to get to know each other, and while it’s less common less days, you absolutely should as it’s a great way to do reverse diligence.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. This is where a technical review can be useful!) Before we review the symptoms, though, please bear this in mind: If your team shows these signs, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re weak.

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Dear SaaStr: How Should I Approach Hiring My First Executives?

SaaStr

Force Yourself to Interview 30 Candidates for VP Roles Yes, 30. Use Screening Filters Create simple tests to weed out unqualified candidates before the first interview. For example, ask engineers to complete a quick coding challenge or have marketing candidates critique your product. Thats time you cant afford to lose.

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9 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, Former M&A at Google

SaaStr

Asset — To gain certain assets like code, patents, data sets, etc, while leaving the team and often the company behind. Not only do you have to pass the hiring interviews as a Founder, but everyone on your team does, too. Build a great company, hire well, write good code, and build a business that’s working.

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How engineers can make an impact outside the code editor

Intercom, Inc.

Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. Interviewing. Getting involved in interviewing candidates is perhaps the most obvious and direct way a product engineer can help out with hiring. Who reviews my code?” “How Onboarding.