Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 19, 2024

The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications.”

Software Engineering 79

Software Engineering Engineering Software Healthcare 79

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

with Yamini Jain, Co-founder at Global roots inc How to manage a SAAS startup effectively? with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them.

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VP of Engineering Technical Cofounder Outsourcing Services CTO Coach 286

SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a huge demand for SMBs, startups, and founders, and the use cases are endless. A Merger of Two Personas — Software Engineer and ML Engineers Ten years ago, your data stack involved systems that produced data. Now, those ML engineers are becoming part of the core workflow.

Artificial Intelligence 303

Artificial Intelligence AI ChatGPT Software Engineering 303

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Mercury offers banking* for startups — at any size or stage. Launched in 2019, Mercury is trusted by more than 100,000 startups. Headquartered in New York with 20+ offices, Vention provides access to 3,000+ engineers worldwide and equips technology leaders with the top engineering talent from the world’s most respected tech hubs.

Scale 244

Scale Banking compliance Forecasting 244

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Getting off the ground is one thing — an easy pitch of being an HR tech startup focused on improving hiring. In a year like this, SMB is doing worse, with a lot more churn and startups going out of business. The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation.

Sales Hiring 274

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 274

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2024

The next generation of software startups have a strategic question with different terminology & potentially a different conclusion. Devin AI, the world’s first AI software engineer aka agent , authors software in place of a human. To be or not to be an agent, acting on behalf of workers? more productive.

Software Engineering 181

Software Engineering AI Benchmarks Startup 181

Tom Tunguz

MAY 28, 2018

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” is a mantra I picked up and adopted at some point in high school and carried through to my first job as a software engineer. Despite the fact that’s we’ve not yet finished May, I’m convinced Why We Sleep is the most important book I’ll have read this year.

Sales Hiring 214

Sales Hiring Software Engineering Investment Engineering 214

Incredo

JULY 8, 2019

Project management, customer relationship management, email automation, live chat are among the most popular software examples. The team of software engineers and testers is the main asset of any SaaS company – they develop, test and improve the product so the company can attract more and more interested users.

Outsourcing Services 200

Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Sales Hiring 200

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

I’ll never forget the first time I met Paul Graham in that very same room right after the first Startup School. After leaving Google, I discovered startups are more open and collaborative with their learning than most large companies. But, how should founders incorporate these ideas into their startups?

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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.

Engineering 100

Engineering Scale Startup Sales 100

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints. Data Products : The combination of large language models and data teams becoming software teams has led to data products. Software startups are rising to meet the need.

Artificial Intelligence 220

Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 220

Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. There’s a classic profile of startup founders who have lived the problem they’re trying to solve. I strolled around and struggled to understand what a lot of the talk was about.

Branding 130

Branding Advertising Underperforming Technical Team VP of Engineering 130

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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. To understand why Run Less Software is so important, let’s map out the battlefield, the armies on it, their missions and their strategies. Innovative startups.

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Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2018

It struck me that most of these interviews were so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. Most interviews are so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. At Intercom, the interview process is different.

Interviewing 85

Interviewing Engineering Software Engineering Software 85

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. These systems will also write back to the CDW. Data Observability becomes a Must Have.

Data 162

Data Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering 162

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2019

‘Developers’ lives matter’ – Chinese software engineers use Github to protest against the country’s 996 work schedule. Microsoft Gives 500 Patents to Startups. Wow, trending #1 on Github. The Next CEO of Stack Overflow. Today we are profitable. and booked $70m in revenue last year.

Cloud 141

Cloud Azure Scale Software Engineering 141

Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For example, female software engineers have increased by only 2% in the last * 21 years *. How’d they grow from a small startup to a budding global player? Before launching allWomen, CEO and co-founder Laura Fernandez Gimenez found herself living and breathing in Barcelona’s budding startup and tech network. Actually, no.

Artificial Intelligence 136

Artificial Intelligence Marketing Scale Sales Recruiting 136

Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Finding product-market fit is a central, early stage challenge of every startup. SaaS startups, however, have unique advantages. SaaS startup founders, product managers, UI designers and software engineers all have strong ideas and even stronger attachments to the SaaS products they build.

Product Marketing 130

Product Marketing Marketing SaaS Software Development 130

TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Any startup can become a champion, but only if they stack their bench with first-round draft picks. In other words, in the highly competitive software industry, simply hiring any random software developer won’t do.

Development 57

Development Startup Software Development Software Engineering 57

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Marc Andreessen spoke with fellow a16z General Partner Martin Casado about how entrepreneurs and startups might think about generative AI, largely from a product perspective. … You have to learn, you have to adjust, and, if you’re not, you’ll have a problem to find a job.

Generative AI 128

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence AI Enterprise 128

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2024

Eric Ries is a name synonymous with innovation and startup success. As an entrepreneur, author, and advisor, Eric has transformed the way businesses approach building products and launching startups with his Lean Startup methodology. Eric Ries is an entrepreneur, author, advisor, and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology.

Innovation 105

Innovation Startup Government Software Engineering 105

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

All the quantitative analysis in the world won’t lead me to the next great idea for startup. 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.

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Benchmarks Sales Recruiting Data Sales Hiring 100

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

So, there’s been breakthrough technology, but it has given building blocks that startups can actually work with to make products. A lot of the time, the standard advice is that if you’re building some new technology startup, you never want to be a solution looking for a problem. How should startups start to bring ML in?

Artificial Intelligence 249

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

He says the IT department of the future will be like the HR department for AI agents We’ll be managing and ’training’ these agents to work with our data Transition: This change starts first within the engineering org Slide 9 Clearing: Historically, there’s been a divide between software engineering and AI/ML teams.

Data 100

Data AI Search Scale Software Engineering 100

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer.

Engineering 204

Engineering Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 204

User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

The startup is building a community of elite talent from across Africa that has been rigorously vetted and trained to global standards, and helps connect talented workers with employers across the globe via their “Talent as a Service” platform. The Room is a company with a mission.

Web Development 98

Web Development Web Developers Software Engineering Onboarding 98

Kellblog

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most of us are familiar with Mark Leslie’s classic Sales Learning Curve and its implications for building the early salesforce at an enterprise startup. Once you’re up to 20-30 reps, you don’t just need sales to be working, you need to prove that you have attained the Holy Grail of startup sales: a repeatable sales process.

Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hiring Sales Government Enterprise 96

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.

MARCH 16, 2022

The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work. This is why our customers – from small startups to massive, complex enterprises – put their trust in us. Here’s how we do it.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Management Systems Review 118

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. It would dramatically reduce the amount of software engineering activity we need to do.

Artificial Intelligence 169

Artificial Intelligence Scale CTO Hire Technology 169

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We paid a $2500 bonus for any referral, and then we paid a $10,000 referral bonus for anybody that referred a software engineer. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. We did a really good job of motivating and promoting the internal referrals so that our existing employees would refer other potential employees.

Sales Recruiting 198

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 198

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Hi inov also manages SNCF Digital Ventures, a corporate fund intended to invest in startups that accelerate the group’s digital transformation.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Kellblog

JULY 21, 2021

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.) Questions we’ll address include: How do you synthesize data-led and design-led product management? How do you hire strong product leaders?

Data 97

Data Software Engineering SaaS Engineering 97

Mattermark

AUGUST 23, 2017

Fred Wilson counters the argument that Resource Constraints make it difficult to succeed as a startup, saying that great operators are never limited by a lack of funding or engineers. Hiring for: Senior Software Engineer (Full stack). Golden Era Of Startups?, In their own words: We’re a small group of 14.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Travel 40

Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

As someone who’s been at Stax for ten years, she has witnessed the company transform from a startup into an industry leader, and the journey has been incredibly fulfilling. “Not many get to be part of a startup and watch it go through each phase as it evolves from a small business to a unicorn.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on? MRR, obviously.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. We’re that way too.

Engineering 214

Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214