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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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6 Ways to Transform Your Business with AI with Google Cloud’s VP & GM of Applied AI

SaaStr

As the leader of the Applied AI team at Google Cloud, Duncan Lennox sets out to answer these questions and shares six ways businesses are currently transforming their businesses at scale and with real ROI. Duncan’s team at Google Cloud recently ran a survey with around ~2.5k The data is clear. The question is, are you listening?

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Lessons from going to market with the Solutions team at mParticle

Sales Hacker

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. CDPs can be technically complex pieces of software, with deep and lengthy sales cycles and cross functional implementations. Should your sales engineers also implement the software?

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

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

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FinOps Debt. Like Technical Debt; Only Worse.

SaaSOptics

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.

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Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV (Pod 651 + Video)

SaaStr

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Due diligence is essential; you should feel empowered to ask those questions from day one.