Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

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 worst thing that can happen is, you make the switch to subscription, and then your technology fails to make the switch effectively.

Payments 128

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 128

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

CISOs face a challenging landscape with emerging technologies, security and privacy compliance, and an increasing number of cyberattacks targeting businesses. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. Strong information technology background with a Diploma in Business Computing.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

CISOs face a challenging landscape with emerging technologies, security and privacy compliance, and an increasing number of cyberattacks targeting businesses. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. Strong information technology background with a Diploma in Business Computing.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

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? This means complicated UI , redundant features, and unnecessary use of complex technologies.

Underperforming Technical Team 83

Underperforming Technical Team Management Interviewing Scale 83

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

Sales Hiring 90

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 90

User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

VP of Engineering 92

VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 92

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! You were a VP of Technology at Salesforce back in the day? I had always done general software things, database software, mainframes, PeopleSoft, run that technology groups, Salesforce.com platform for everybody. Get tickets here.

Sales Hiring 337

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

SaaSOptics

JULY 7, 2021

Most in the software world have heard of ‘technical debt’ (thorough exploration here by Martin Fowler) but a short definition from Wikipedia is: the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer. . But our developer has a deadline tomorrow.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 69

Audacix

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I'm going to reveal to you a specific automated penetration testing tool that not only helps you discover vulnerabilities, but it's one that is actually built to be used by your software development team without the need for help from external security teams. How Do You Automate Penetration Testing? It is simple!

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service SaaS 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This was shorter compared to organizations that have not deployed these technologies. Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services Payment Solutions DevOps as a Service Payments 40

Frontegg

MAY 24, 2021

The software development world has changed dramatically over the last few years. Following the SaaS revolution, almost no software products are sold today outside a cloud and subscription model. Technological commitment ?—?When Our demo application for this use case will be a SaaS product called LoudAPI. By domain? —?

Software Review 98

Software Review SaaS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 98

Audacix

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Table Of Contents With the severity and complexity of cyber threats evolving, you need to test your web applications continuously throughout the development process. Web application assessment involves a thorough examination of a web application's security to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that attackers could potentially exploit.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Mobile DevOps as a Service 40

Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

But that doesn’t mean they’re all bad. A strategy is how a team plans to reach their overarching goals and all of the steps to get there. Managers can energize the whole team by helping secure some quick wins. “Hi! Let’s synergize our teams to create a streamlined approach that leverages our core competencies.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Sales Enablement 130

TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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”).

Startup 52

Startup Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 94

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 94

Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When deployed correctly, Product Ownership is an invaluable role that provides tactical support to your development team, translates customer value, goals and pain points into product improvements, and leads effective and impactful development sprints. After I graduated from university, I landed in Business Analysis.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. The more knowledge you have about how the technology your brand runs on works, the better.

Payment Methods 108

Payment Methods Cybersecurity Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 108

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

Underperforming Technical Team 179

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Innovation Startup 179

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift. A bundle of technologies are going to make a whole bunch of new things possible that lots of people are going to be building things on top of. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

Artificial Intelligence 139

Artificial Intelligence AI Scale ChatGPT 139

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2022

In the data-driven technology space, this simple binary makes some sense. Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. This doesn’t mean that playbooks and frameworks are always a bad idea. You have to think for yourself.” .

Leadership 76

Leadership SMB Underperforming Technical Team Scale 76

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Not only investment but a change in mindset along with continuous efforts from the whole team is required to get exponential results. Making the Customer Support team do Customer Success. Here they make the mistake of making the customer support team do customer success. . Can a software developer do sales?

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 59

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Which B2B sales technology trends will deliver on their promise and help you make it to and beyond your goals? What customers want is help solving problems.

Scale 86

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 86

SmartKarrot

APRIL 24, 2023

By ensuring that a SaaS solution meets the highest quality standards, teams can build trust with their customers, reduce churn , and ultimately drive business growth. However, like any other technology, SaaS solutions are not immune to quality issues that can negatively impact user experience and business outcomes.

Underperforming Technical Team 16

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Scale User Experience 16

Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Technical Review Software Development 52

Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Is this an application that your team members or vendors use to make sure that you are actually able to service your customers? The reasons for this vary, but usually revolve around misaligned priorities, capability gaps, technology gaps and poor communication by all parties. You are definitely not alone in facing such issues.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service Outsourced Development 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. It illustrates the distribution of different types of technology users. of the market) are excited about trying products and testing new technology. What is the product adoption curve? Innovators (2.5%

Technical Review 81

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Education 81

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Which B2B sales technology trends will deliver on their promise and help you make it to and beyond your goals? What customers want is help solving problems.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to the financial numbers that get thrown around in start-up land—I don’t care what TechCrunch says, I don’t care what your market cap is—I think it’s clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. What does all this research indicate?

VP of Engineering 45

VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Engineering 45

Full Session

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Our powerful web analytics solution can significantly help various specialists, including UX researchers, UI designers, product teams, digital marketers, and product managers. With a good range of features and integrations, it’s challenging to know which one is best for your team and project. How to deploy FullSession.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Business Technical Review 52

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. Fix your processes and THEN huge value can be realized from customer success technology. Or perhaps not.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? ” A technological example makes this clear.

Payment Solutions 71

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Scale 71

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

I realized there was just this massive opportunity to make information accessible to parents and that no one was really building technology for parents. So I wanted to solve some of the problems that I saw in legal for technology companies and startups. Sara Mauskopf : I wanted to get that information online. Justin Kan : Awesome.

Scale 117

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 117