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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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Advertising Week 360: How to Tell the Perfect Startup Brand Story

Trint

I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I was introduced to a team of software engineers who’d been working on tech that aligned audio and text so that you could follow it like karaoke. I remember saying to the team, “We just invented the future.”

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

User Pilot

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

User Pilot

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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Navigating Your SaaS Transition: 5 Insights From Stardock’s Experience With FastSpring

FastSpring

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. The best way I can describe my job is trying to decide what advice is bad advice,” he told us. And I would say that was bad advice.”

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Why Startups Fail and How to Prevent It

TurnKey Labs

Key takeaways: Why startups fail? It’s typically due to one or more key factors, such as a lack of preparation and planning, poor understanding of the target customer’s needs, and/or not developing a product or service that adequately solves customer pain points (which is more commonly known as not achieving “product-market fit”).

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