SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Together they explore the transformative role of data, which has become an integral part of the production stack, and delve into the implications of this shift and explore how leveraging data within the architecture empowers developers to create more robust, intelligent, and scalable SaaS solutions.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations. Ambient computing.

DevOps as a Service 253

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Agile Payments

MAY 5, 2020

How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer in a SAAS Company.

Software Engineering 68

Software Engineering Engineering Software SaaS 68

Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

SaaS startups, however, have unique advantages. Unlike consumer Internet products, SaaS products are essential business tools. SaaS customers take them very seriously. SaaS customers want to provide feedback and they want to see that feedback acted upon in a timely fashion. SaaS Customer Alignment Tip #13.

Product Marketing 130

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products? Why is that?

SaaS Payments 246

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Trustero aims to be the trust clearing house for SaaS businesses, replacing the need for a traditional approach to compliance through 3rd party consultancy. We’ve taken a new approach to GRC, using modern data and AI techniques, as opposed to simply building better tools for compliance practitioners.

Scale 244

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. SaaS companies may not be the most likely target when it comes to payment fraud , but it does happen.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

Incredo

JULY 8, 2019

We hope our article will help you cut the clutter and scale your SaaS business to uncharted limits. 1 You Should Own a SaaS Company . SaaS (Software-as-a-service) is one of the main service models of cloud computing, alongside IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-service). Let’s dive in! #1

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions.

Scale 275

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. With many payment processors, you’ll need additional software to manage complex recurring payments, taxes, chargebacks, dunning, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

JULY 21, 2019

Want to know the top stories 100,000 other Cloud and SaaS enthusiasts are reading? Here are Top 6 cloud stories for this week: #1: “How Big Tech Companies Like Google and Facebook Set Salaries For Software Engineers”. #2: 3: “The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Built a Fortune on Free Software”. #4:

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Audacix

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And they've been ignored by most software engineers for a long time. Isn't it strange that the very people who build amazing software completely ignore other novel software that helps them secure their creations? Why do software engineers not like vulnerability scanning tools? Not the testing team.

Software Engineering 45

Software Engineering Engineering Software Outsourced Development 45

SaaS Metrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Software engineering is an important field that has seen a rapid evolution over the past few years. In particular, the concept of remote working has become increasingly prominent in this area, allowing software engineers to work from anywhere in the world.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Metrics 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. You could do vanilla 101 SaaS practices and succeed. Could something like the Greenhouse of 2015 even make it to market today?

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FastSpring

MAY 6, 2022

Data science has a key difference from software engineering. In software engineering, when you work on an existing system, you can build on what past coders have done before you. I learned a lot listening to Cedric’s story. Here are five of my biggest takeaways from the interview: 1. Data Formulas Are Subtly Unique.

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Kellblog

JULY 21, 2021

I’m delighted to say that tomorrow’s SaaS Product Power Breakfast will feature one of my favorite people to riff with, Alation cofounder Aaron Kalb. How did your psychology and software engineering background help you as a product leader? We may get a little data-oriented decision-maker mixed in as well.)

Data 97

Data Software Engineering SaaS Engineering 97

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

SaaS applications will use the CDW as a backend for both reading & writing. In the future, software products will build their apps on top of the CDW to take advantage of centralized security, faster procurement processes, & adjacent data. Software engineers measure the success of their efforts through up-time.

Data 167

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They are dynamic, versatile, and have the ability to overcome a wide range of engineering obstacles. We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1 Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I’m excited to be here today to share a few stories from the SaaS world. I got my start in software 25 years ago. So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?”

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

Now, before we jump to the idea that software engineers will soon be relics of the past, let’s hit pause. They’re changing the game on how engineers work and the kinds of projects they dive into. Let’s peel back the layers on what low-code and no-code tech means for the software engineering world.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software Development 40

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Frontegg

JULY 23, 2020

The debate behind build versus buy is a lively one in the world of SaaS product development, and although it can be discussed ad infinitum, we do need to sit back for a minute before we build a SaaS application and consider the following: What are the key reasons that drive a company to build vs. buy? Levels of Customization.

SaaS Payments 98

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

This post is for other early stage SaaS companies who are similarly considering whether some of these new forms of capital make sense for their business. Founders agree to a salary cap (based off of the average salary of a software engineer in the nearest major city), and can increase their salary up to that cap as the business makes money.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 31, 2019

A software engineer by education, Kieran very quickly figured out that he would be average at best when it came to building software products. The post How to move from Marketing Qualified Leads to Product Qualified Leads appeared first on SaaS Revolution Hub.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire. The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Read more about this in my prior post.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit because in both the recent Software Engineering Daily podcast I did with Jeff, and the presentation I gave at Launch Conference, the question of the limits of metrics surfaced. On Software Engineering Daily, Jeff asked whether metrics can lead us into a local maximum or minimum.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Earlier this week, I published benchmarks on What Percentage Of Revenue Should SaaS Startups Spend On operating expense? What fraction of operating expense is spent on sales & marketing, and what fraction of op is spent on engineering? Most businesses spend 2x more on sales & marketing than engineering.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

We’re going to actually really dissect and go through a lot of the conventional wisdom of how to run a SaaS company and we’ll do that together. Now, if you talked to the average venture capitalist or the average person in SaaS or the average CEO they’ll say, no, recruiting is essential.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Build is one of the most foundational tools for software engineering. Traditionally, it is the step in software development that takes the files written by engineers and compiles them into machine runnable code, but build has become so much more.

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Investment Software Engineering Software Development Engineering 107

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

SaaS accounting software can help you automate: Recurring invoicing. And more … However, it’s almost impossible to find one accounting software solution that satisfies all your needs as a SaaS company. Even software that advertises SaaS-specific features is rarely a complete solution. Payment processing.

Payment Solutions 78

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services 78

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Or maybe that’s just my software engineer’s bias. The idea that the latest is also correct holds in technical genres like software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the likes. In the book are 111 plays for building a hyper-growth SaaS startup from the SaaS founder who started it all.

Business 101

Business Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Software Engineering 101

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

A valuable question for any software company to ask themselves is: “What do you spend most of your time doing and are you happy with it owning you?” ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. They are called product engineers.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. And that engine that we’re building in the code school space, in the software engineering space, it turns out you can abstract that into other industries, into other fields. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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User Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. SaaS product team.

Management 111

Management Engineering Data Analysis Software Development 111

Audacix

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Table Of Contents What Is Online Pentesting & How Does It Help SaaS Companies? Online penetration testing is an automated hacker-style attack aimed at identifying the existing vulnerabilities in a SaaS system and gauging your web application's security controls. production, testing, staging, etc).

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Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service SaaS 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The new SaaS. When describing the role of swag within sales, my marketing brain best describes it as SaaS. No, not software in this case, but rather swag as a step. . Does SaaS (swag as a step) work? Road warrior CEOs may find more value in a travel accessory, while software engineers might appreciate a desktop product.

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Wireless Data Sales Branding 111

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups. The world of tech start-ups accepts The Lean Start-up as gospel, but is conveniently out to lunch when it comes to their own use of software.

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