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

Intercom, Inc.

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. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent with Snowflake Global Director of Market Intelligence Guan Wang (Video)

SaaStr

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

Hiring is complicated, so you have to build a lot of software to get to $200M ARR. A Multi-Segment Strategy You have to be intentional in your strategy to solve for the long tail. But in other years, SMBs are jumping in the boat, so you get amazing growth long-term with a multi-segment strategy.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do people move into staff engineering roles? With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions. What’s the right way to do this in your company? A tale of two career paths.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

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. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. It truly has been a team effort. Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S.,