Podcast appearances and mentions of edith harbaugh

This week's podcast-as-a-resource is focused on your technical content strategy. Richard talks to Adam DuVander, Principal Consultant at EveryDeveloper. Are you developer first or developer enabled in the way you sell software. Discovery is Adam's bread and butter. He helps companies understand how to be discovered in the first place – so what are developers or developer advocates trying to solve in the first place and then how Adam's clients can describe how they can help. So why can't people do this themselves? This is the classic over-expectation – a developer will write about features, not benefits. And marketing without a technical competence will need a translation layer – that's Adam and EveryDeveloper. Forget asking for phone numbers or long forms to submit. Adam will bring you through how to market to developers, and the currency he has identified is knowledge. Yes, Code is important, but the experience that's gone in to creating that code and the decisions and choices made to create that code is very interesting. How about use cases? Bring them on! Another interesting approach is tell developers how to solve their problems without you, but also if they wish, you've built a tool to do it for them. The example of this in action is Edith Harbaugh's Launch Darkly. Then they have a detailed chat on developer first or developer focused – reaching developers directly, digging in to their problems and connects to this audience. Not scattershot, targeted help for specific problems. The developer enabled approach comes in to play when the buyer is other than the developer, but the developer is the user of the technical tool, and therefore must act as a champion for your solution. So they have to be armed with the language and explanation they require to get this discovered tool or service. Can all the stakeholders agree to move forward? Use cases, documentation and sample apps etc. can make all the difference here. The developer first or developer enabled model for Adam's clients has been a game changer for their marketing strategies. Reach out to Adam DuVander https://www.linkedin.com/in/duvander/ Developer Marketing Does Not Exist: an Authentic Guide (everydeveloper.com) Get the books: https://everydeveloper.com/developer-marketing/book/ Great blog post here on how marketing and developers can collaborate https://everydeveloper.com/how-marketers-collaborate-with-dev-rel/ An example of how to tell developers how to solve problems without you! https://launchdarkly.com/

Edith Harbaugh, Co founder and Executive Chair at LaunchDarkly, joins the show to talk aboutThe process LaunchDarkly went through to validate PM fit and create the category for feature management.LaunchDarkly's target customer profile when finding PM fit and how their target customer profile has evolved as their category and company has scaled.At what stage in a company's growth should a founder invest in Dev Ops.The evolution of DevOps landscape over the next 3-5 years.

Learn directly from Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder and Executive Chair of LaunchDarkly, about the top 10 mistakes to avoid when scaling your SaaS company. Edith is an experienced startup executive and has firsthand insights into how to grow any SaaS business quickly and successfully. Don't miss this opportunity to get valuable guidance for scaling to 100 million in ARR! We'll cover how: *Everything is up & to the right if you zoom out Big changes every 6-18 months Revenue is it's own funding Hiring changes over time Value your time and get leverage A good Exec Recruiter is worth it Pricing - no right answer Creating category takes constant effort Refresh Values No playbook, just play pages   Watch the video, including Q&A: https://youtu.be/5ccWUwinkJg   ****** Shipping projects doesn't have to be a mess. Notion combines project management with your docs, knowledge base, and AI. So you can stop jumping between tools, and stop paying too much for them too. Get Notion Projects for free at Notion.com/SAASTR.   Vention provides technology leaders with the top engineering talent they need to accelerate their roadmap, innovate faster and more efficiently, and ultimately catapult their operation to new heights. Vention developers sync with clients' in-house teams, helping them get to market 30 percent faster and saving them more than $600,000 on average. Looking for the edge to outpace your competition? Vention is your partner. Learn more at ventionteams.com.   *****   Want to join the SaaStr community? We're the

Stronghold CEO and Co-founder Tammy Camp sit down with fellow CEO and Co-founder Edith Harbaugh of LaunchDarkly to talk about how to scale, fundraise, and reach unicorn status. Edith has more than 15 years of experience in engineering, product, and marketing with both consumer and enterprise startups, including TripIt and Concur.LaunchDarkly hit unicorn status after raising $200m with their series D, currently holding a valuation of $3 billion. LaunchDarkly serves 2,000+ global customers like IBM, Atlassian, and Intuit.Interested in learning more about LaunchDarkly? Find them on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.To learn more about Stronghold, find us on Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or join our popular Discord!If you know someone who you think would be great on Speak Bold, don't hesitate to reach out at podcast@stronghold.coNew episodes of Speak Bold drop every two weeks.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The story goes something like this: There's this marketing manager who is trying to time a launch. She asks the developer team when the service will be ready. The dev team says maybe a few months. Let's say three months from now in April. The marketing manager begins prepping for the release. The dev team releases the services the following week. It's not an uncommon occurrence. Edith Harbaugh is the co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly, a company she launched in 2014 with John Kodumal to solve these problems with software releases that affect organizations worldwide. Today, LaunchDarkly has 4,000 customers and an annual return revenue rate of $100 million. We interviewed Harbaugh for our Tech Founder Odyssey series on The New Stack Makers about her journey and LaunchDarkly's work. The interview starts with this question about the timing of dev releases and the relationship between developers and other constituencies, particularly the marketing organization. LaunchDarkly is the number one feature management company, Harbaugh said. "Their mission is to provide services to launch software in a measured, controlled fashion. Harbaugh and Kodumal, CTO, founded the company on the premise that software development and releasing software is arduous. "You wonder whether you're building the right thing," Harbaugh said, who has worked as both an engineer and a product manager. "Once you get it out to the market, it often is not quite right. And then you just run this huge risk of how do you fix things on the fly." Feature flagging was a technique that a lot of software companies did. Harbaugh worked at Tripit, a travel service, where they used feature flags as did companies such as Atlassian, where Kodumal had developed software. "So the kernel of LaunchDarkly, when we started in 2014, was to make this technique of feature flagging into a movement called feature management, to allow everybody to build better software faster, in a safer way." LaunchDarkly allows companies to release features however granular an organization wants, allowing a developer to push a release into production in different pieces at different times, Harbaugh said. So, a marketing organization can send a release out even after the developer team has released it into production. "So, for example, if, we were running a release, and we wanted somebody from The New Stack to see it first, the marketing person could turn it on just for you." Harbaugh describes herself as a huge geek. But she also gets it in a rare way for geeks and non-geeks alike. She and Kodumal took a concept used effectively by develops, transforming it into a service that provides feature management for a broader customer base, like the marketer wanting to push releases out in a granular way for a launch on the East Coast that is pre-programmed with feature flags in advance from the company office the previous day in San Francisco. The idea is novel, but like many intelligent, technical founders, Harbaugh's journey reflects her place today. She's a leader in the space, and a fun person to talk to, so we hope you enjoy this latest episode in our tech founder series from The New Stack Makers.

LaunchDarkly is a pioneer in the feature management space. Founded in 2014, while the agile and cloud movements were still relatively nascent, LaunchDarkly was ahead of its time. They have now scaled to a $3 billion company, serving over 4,000 customers. In this episode, LaunchDarkly Co-Founder and CEO Edith Harbaugh takes us back to her initial insight as an engineering manager and product leader at TripIt, deeply versed in the value of systematic feature flagging, and keenly aware of how underutilized it was by many other dev teams. She shares the conviction required to build a product that most buyers in Silicon Valley weren't yet looking for, and how she engaged her network to gain initial design partners for the product that would come to define the feature management space. Join us as we discuss: Honing a founder insight and being early vs late to an emerging sector Hypothesis testing and building with design partners Community-building and marketing a movement Fundraising when VCs are skeptical of a new sector About Unusual Ventures — Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm designed from the ground up to give a distinct advantage to founders building infrastructure software and application-level companies. Unusual was founded in 2018 with the mission to reinvent the venture capital engagement model by serving entrepreneurs with an unprecedented level of hands-on services. Described as a partner versus a top-down stakeholder by its portfolio companies, Unusual is laser-focused on serving exceptional founders and teams building innovative products. With offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, and Boston, Unusual has invested in category-defining companies like Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Robinhood, Harness, and Vivun. About Sandhya Hegde — Sandhya is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in enterprise SaaS companies. Previously an early employee and executive at Amplitude, Sandhya is a product-led growth (PLG) coach and mentor. She can be reached at sandhya@unusual.vc and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sandhya) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandhyahegde/). Further reading: Identifying initial customers — https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/field-guide-enterprise/ideal-customer-profile-and-personas Early-stage pricing — https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/field-guide-enterprise/pricing-your-product TOOL: Founder prioritization heatmap — https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/field-guide-enterprise/ceo-founder-prioritization Building a self-serve motion  — https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/field-guide-enterprise/self-serve-user-buyer-journey

In the season seven finale, we chat with Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly, the feature management platform which allows development teams to innovate faster by gradually releasing new software features to any segment of users on any platform. Edith speaks to the lessons she learned during her earlier career as a software engineer and product leader. She describes the key learnings she had in selling a product she ardently believed in to buyers who didn’t know yet why they needed her platform. Today, Edith has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, Entrepreneur's 100 Women of influence list, and NASDAQ Female Leaders Council. Themes you expect in this week's episode include; the trade-offs to a development team of building vs buying, the need for feature management across startups and enterprises, and how trust drives your go-to-market strategy with early customers. For The Room Podcast in your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter. 6:04 - Where did Edith grow up and how did that shape her view of the world?7:19 - Did Edith always think she would become a founder?8:38 - What did Edith learn when she stayed at her first job through an acquisition?12:17 - What was the “aha” moment that encouraged Edith to launch LaunchDarkly?17:59 - How did engineering and product teams manage feature flags before LaunchDarkly? 19:34 - When did Edith know it was time to leave TripIt and focus entirely on LaunchDarkly?21:02 - How has the LaunchDarkly product evolved since its creation?23:03 - Who was the first person to say yes to investing in LaunchDarkly?25:13 - What was a moment in Edith’s journey where things didn’t go as planned?29:26 - How did Edith earn the trust of the stakeholders she was selling to?31:25 - Did Edith have to rethink her go-to-market strategy once she realized the trust factor in selling a product like Launch Darkly?33:36 - What changed behind the scenes once LaunchDarkly hit its stride?37:22 - How has the competitive landscape evolved since LaunchDarkly’s origin?40:02 - How does Edith empower her team amidst periods of uncertainty?41:17 - How has Edith’s experience been on the NASDAQ Female Leaders Council? 43:24 - What's next for LaunchDarkly?44:24 - Who is a woman that has had a profound impact on Edith’s life and career? WX Productions

On this episode, Edith Harbaugh, CEO at LaunchDarkly and Jonathan Heiliger, Partner at Vertex Ventures discuss the highs and lows of entrepreneurship from bootstrapped to billions.    Taking that first step to being a founder is the first difficult decision for many. After that comes decisions about hiring your teams, picking your partners and investors, and creating a scalable product for a category that doesn't exist yet.   Edith shares how she beat the status quo for founding a company by tackling problems she experienced firsthand and how she is leading an entirely new category for B2B.   Specifically, Edith and Jonathan discuss:   Tangible steps to take to become a founder How to challenge the notion that companies are built from well-known problems Validating the idea, getting to product-market fit, and navigating to hypergrowth and scale The elements of category creation: the challenges, mistakes, and bumps along the way Who to turn to along your founder journey Learn more at https://tractionconf.io   Connect with Edith Harbaugh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edithharbaugh/   Learn more about LaunchDarkly at https://launchdarkly.com/   This episode is brought to you by:   Extend your company's hiring budget with VanHack's pool of 400,000 remote engineers at a lower cost than local hires. Join companies like Dapper Labs, 1Password, Brex, and Dooly who hired great engineers with VanHack. Mention “Traction Remote” when you sign up today to get 10% off your first hire at https://VanHack.com.Each year the U.S. and Canadian governments provide more than $20 billion in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to fund businesses. But the application process is cumbersome, prone to costly audits, and receiving the money can take as long as 16 months. Boast automates this process, enabling companies to get more money faster without the paperwork and audit risk. We don't get paid until you do! Find out if you qualify today at https://Boast.AI.   Launch Academy is one of the top global tech hubs for international entrepreneurs and a designated organization for Canada's Startup Visa. Since 2012, Launch has worked with more than 6,000 entrepreneurs from over 100 countries, of which 300 have grown their startups to seed and Series A stage and raised over $2 billion in funding. To learn more about Launch's programs or the Canadian Startup Visa, visit https://LaunchAcademy.ca    Content Allies helps B2B companies build revenue-generating podcasts. We recommend them to any B2B company that is looking to launch or streamline its podcast production. Learn more at https://contentallies.com   #product #marketing #innovation #fundraising #fintech

Beyang sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is a SaaS feature management platform for developers that allows them to iterate and get code into production quickly and safely by separating feature rollout and code deployment. John begins by talking about his first experiences with computers and programing in the 80s, including teaching himself to us a Dvorak keyboard in the first grade, experimenting with BBS in elementary school, and programming his TI-92 in BASIC to make a shell program so that he could use Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) on it in high school. John shares how he pursued his interest in programming languages throughout higher education and then discusses his employment experiences at Coverity and Atlassian. He talks about how the lessons and experiences from his prior jobs ultimately led him to found LaunchDarkly in 2014 with former classmate, Edith Harbaugh. John dives into how did he first got into feature toggles and feature flags, and then talks about the engineering challenges LaunchDarkly has encountered. John concludes by sharing how he has witnessed LaunchDarkly impact the developer experience and the ongoing, transformational benefits of utilizing their feature management platform.Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com 

Today we're talking to Michael Gillett, Head of Development at Win Technologies, a proud member of the Betway Group. And we discuss several unconventional use cases for feature management. Why Michael chooses LaunchDarkly for feature management, and tips for having successful 1on1s with your direct reports.  All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast!  Check out Michael's book on feature management here! To learn more about LaunchDarkly, check them out at https://launchdarkly.com In case you missed it: check out our episodes we released with LaunchDarkly's CTO John Kodumal, and LaunchDarkly's CEO Edith Harbaugh!

John Kodumal grew up really into computers. And, he is old enough that during his childhood, it was abnormal to be so into computers. To illustrate just how much he was into computers, he told me a story about how he taught himself to touch type in grade school.. using the DVORAK keyboard layout. He is a family man, with 2 children - a 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son. Outside of family, he has a ton of hobbies and interests, including climbing. In fact, his last trip before COVID hit, he took a bunch of friends and co-workers to ice climb in Colorado.Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better. He did a PhD in programming languages, and he worked at Atlassian for a number of years. When he got connected with his co-founder, Edith Harbaugh, they started to explore just how big of an opportunity they had around feature flags.This is the creation story of LaunchDarkly.SponsorsCourierImg.lyRoutableCTO.aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit.LinksWebsite: https://launchdarkly.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkodumal/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of The Hoot, join Geeta Schmidt, VP & Humio Business Unit Lead at Crowdstrike, as she speaks with Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-Founder at LaunchDarkly, about development strategies that empower your teams to quickly create software to match the speed of modern business.

Today we're talking to Edith Harbaugh, the Co-Founder and CEO at LaunchDarkly. And we discuss how utilizing feature flags enables developers to deploy more often and with less stress. How LaunchDarkly can drop the mean time to remediate bugs down to seconds, and how to establish a culture of autonomy. All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast! To learn more about LaunchDarkly, check them out at https://launchdarkly.com

Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly, walks us through the backstory of how she runs a successful business. She shares all her tips from listening to product launches and continuous learning. Get the FREE Product Book and check out our curated list of free Product Management resources here

Podcast: B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg) (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: How to Grow as a CEO (Tien Tzuo and Edith Harbaugh)Pub date: 2021-04-21In this installment of our FC BUILD series, my partner Steve Vassallo talks with Edith Harbaugh, co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly, and Tien Tzuo, co-founder and CEO of Zuora. Both former engineers, Edith and Tien offer advice for building a startup, discuss scaling in the time of virtual work, and dissect the art of managing others and themselves.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Foundation Capital, Ashu Garg, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

In this installment of our FC BUILD series, my partner Steve Vassallo talks with Edith Harbaugh, co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly, and Tien Tzuo, co-founder and CEO of Zuora. Both former engineers, Edith and Tien offer advice for building a startup, discuss scaling in the time of virtual work, and dissect the art of managing others and themselves.

Edith Harbaugh (CEO & Co-founder of LaunchDarkly) & Astasia Myers (Investor at Redpoint Ventures) are this week's guests on The SaaS Revolution Show. This is a session from SaaStock Remote 2021. 76% of tech founders are now supportive of distributed work - a huge uplift from 56% before the pandemic. The challenge? Remote work requires a different leadership style. Gone are the days where charisma by the watercooler is enough. What your team values most is organisation, clear goal-setting, & connection. Last year, CEO of LaunchDarkly Edith Harbaugh embraced this new world of remote work - & has since hired 50+ employees who have never met physically. In conversation with startup enabler Astasia Myers, she shares how she adapted her leadership style & offers advice for keeping your team aligned, motivated and empowered.

Welcome back to Cloud Giants in a special micro season featuring the incredible conversations we had with top CEOs at this year’s Cloud 100 virtual summit. Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly, Yancey Spruill, CEO of DigitalOcean, and Dave MacJannet, CEO of HashiCorp, come together to discuss how their companies serve the global developer community, the strategies they’ve implemented to earn the trust of developers who use their products, and the stories behind how organizations and the world have changed due to developer innovation. Let’s dive into this insightful conversation about how developer platforms are the foundation to today’s digital industrial revolution. To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

On this episode, Ashu interviews Edith Harbaugh, co-founder and CEO of feature management platform LaunchDarkly. They discuss what it takes to leap from an established job to pursue an idea, and how to tackle the woes of fundraising. Edith and Ashu spend the lion’s share of the conversation on the all-important topic of sales. How to sell yourself, your company, and your product. And what to look for when you’re hiring a sales leader.

Edith is joining us as part of a 2-part special where we talk to two co-founders, months apart, and get the CEO and CTO's views on the same company and challenges as the pandemic progresses. Here Edith underlines the importance of the Cloud and why features are so key. If you enjoy our music, check out Hannah Evan Music - instagram is @hannahevansmusic - we love her latest track!

LaunchDarkly now helps over 1,000 customers — including major companies like Atlassian and BMW — release code, monitor and manage features, and make data-driven decisions about software functionality. But growth didn’t come overnight, explains CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh. She describes the multi-year slog of scaling up a B2B company, and demonstrates how she made the most of a number of less-than-ideal jobs, building a diverse toolkit of skills that ultimately contributed to her success as a founder and CEO. She urges entrepreneurs to draw encouragement from small wins, especially in the early stages, when customers are few and far between.

LaunchDarkly now helps over 1,000 customers — including major companies like Atlassian and BMW — release code, monitor and manage features, and make data-driven decisions about software functionality. But growth didn’t come overnight, explains CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh. She describes the multi-year slog of scaling up a B2B company, and demonstrates how she made the most of a number of less-than-ideal jobs, building a diverse toolkit of skills that ultimately contributed to her success as a founder and CEO. She urges entrepreneurs to draw encouragement from small wins, especially in the early stages, when customers are few and far between.

LaunchDarkly now helps over 1,000 customers - including major companies like Atlassian and BMW - release code, monitor and manage features, and make data-driven decisions about software functionality. But growth didn't come overnight, explains CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh. She describes the multi-year slog of scaling up a B2B company, and demonstrates how she made the most of a number of less-than-ideal jobs, building a diverse toolkit of skills that ultimately contributed to her success as a founder and CEO. She urges entrepreneurs to draw encouragement from small wins, especially in the early stages, when customers are few and far between.

This week, we spoke with Oakland The New Stack correspondent TC Currie who attended LaunchDarkly's Trajectory conference in Oakland this week. Then later in the show our own Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, discussed the news coming out from Google Cloud Next in san Francisco this week. Libby Clark, editorial director at The New Stack, hosted the show. LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that provides feature flagging for CI/CD pipelines. Back in February, Currie interviewed LaunchDarkly's CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh on our Makers podcast as one of this year's winners of the Cloud-Now's "Top Women in Cloud" award. Then in the second half of the show, we talk about the Google Next conference. The show has been generating a lot of energy and coverage from our cloud services correspondent Mary Branscombe. We spoke about Google's Anthos hybrid cloud platform which came out of beta this week, and its new partnership with seven leading open source projects it will begin offering as fully managed services.

Welcome to the CTO Connection Podcast!StartupCTO.io was an amazing podcast, but Kevin and Miles got busy with their many other projects, so they decided to pass it along to myself.I’m an ex-CTO, a Senior Director at WeWork/Flatiron, and the founder of CTO Connection - a series of summits, meetups and an online platform where engineering leaders can connect with and learn from their peers. I’m speaking with senior engineering leaders from fast-growth tech companies on a regular basis anyway for the summits and meetups, and in the last few weeks, I recorded over fifteen new interviews with engineering leaders like Nick Caldwell, CPO at Looker, Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly and Rebecca Parsons, CTO at ThoughtWorks. Look out for a new episode every couple of weeks. And if there’s ever anyone you want to see on the show - email me - peter@pbell.com - and I’ll do my best to fit them in!Editing & Post-Production by Dante32.

In episode 5 of EnterpriseReady, Grant meets with Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly. They talk about Edith's experiences building advanced enterprise features, and how enterprise sales have changed over the years.

In episode 5 of EnterpriseReady, Grant meets with Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly. They talk about Edith’s experiences building advanced enterprise features, and how enterprise sales have changed over the years. The post Ep. #5, The Evolution of Enterprise with Edith Harbaugh of LaunchDarkly appeared first on Heavybit.

We discuss our time at the CTO Summit at the NASDAQ Marketsite from a couple weeks back. This was a great conference, because technology leaders from startups to larger companies congregated to talk about managing and scaling tech teams. We talk about software process, distributed teams, how deployment is the main cause of all software failures, and a whole bunch of other interesting software development topics. Just as a warning, there isn’t a lot of crypto content on this one, but we thought our learnings from the conference were worth highlighting. Topics: On the CTO Event Recaps  - Eliot Horowitz of MongoDB Inc.: The Right Amount of Process to Scale Your Engineering Team  - Maria Belousova of Grubhub: Building Highly Distributed Teams  - Michael Boufford of Greenhouse: Establishing a Management Cadence  - Bjorn Freeman Benson of Fresnel Research: Seventeen Things that Have Bitten Us But Shouldn’t Have  - Yvette Pasqua of Meetup: Engineering Leadership Through High Growth and High Change  - Angie Ruan of Nasdaq: The Nasdaq Financial Framework Transformation  - Rebecca Miller-Webster of DevMynd: Refactoring Trust on Your Team  - Johnny Ray Austin of Mapbox: Setting Your Team Up For Failure  - Mona Soni of Dow Jones: Is Your Team Built to Be Effective?  - Edith Harbaugh of LaunchDarkly: What I learned From Not Running 100 Miles  - Lena Reinhard of CircleCI: Better Communication for Stronger Teams  - Michael Ellison of CodePath.org: Improving Diversity in Tech by Transforming CS Education at Colleges  - Stacy Gorelick of Flatiron: Growing a Platform Team  - Jean Barmash of Komodo Health: How to Receive Feedback  - Ushashi Chakraborty of Mode Analytics: Run Engineering Meetings Using Improve Skills  -Kwame Thomison of Magnetic Inc.: Your Hiring Pipeline is a Product  - Debbie Madden of Stride Consulting: How to Retain Developers. And When To Let Them Go  - James Kenigsberg of 2U: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants - Adapting Existing Technologies for Speed and Credibility  - Andrew Montalenti of Parse.ly: Fully Distributed & Asynchronous: Building Eventually-Coordinated Teams That Ship  - Randy Shoup of WeWork: Breaking Codes, Designing Jets, and Building Teams Links: Bjorn Freeman Benson - https://twitter.com/bjorn_fb Johnny Ray Austin - https://twitter.com/recursivefunk Lena Reinhard - https://twitter.com/lrnrd Why we re-designed our engineering career paths at CircleCI - bit.ly/circleci-matrix Debbie Madden - https://twitter.com/debbiemadden200 Andrew Montalenti - https://twitter.com/amontalenti Randy Shoup - https://twitter.com/randyshoup

Releasing software has inherent risk. If your users don’t like your new feature, they might stop using your product immediately. If a software bug makes it into production, it can crash your entire application. Releasing software gradually has many benefits. A slow rollout to an increasing population of users allows you to test your software The post Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode, Edith shares her story of founding LaunchDarkly. She walks through the valuable lessons learned from disastrous product launches to first pitch meetings. Nowadays she has a podcast called “To Be Continuous” about continuous delivery and software development, teaches a class on how to fundraise, and has her own philosophy on how to manage procurement cycles for young enterprise software companies. Edith Harbaugh is CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly. Edith has more than 10 years of experience in product, engineering and marketing with both consumer and enterprise startups. She was Product Director at TripIt, where she launched TripIt for Business and ExpenseIt. She was Product Manager at Vignette, a global content management company. She holds two patents in deployment. She moderated the lean startup list. Edith earned a BS, Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and a degree in Economics from Pomona College. She enjoys trail running distances up to 100 miles, and co-hosts “To Be Continuous,” a podcast about continuous delivery and software development.

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on the way she and her cofounder have deliberately engineered their organisation’s culture Why listen to this podcast: • A good engineering culture is one where there is a lot of respect for different people and roles • Start by good intent on behalf of your colleagues – everyone is doing their best • Be open to continually learning – mistakes will happen, learn from them in a blame-free way • Another aspect of respect is ensuring meetings are purposeful, have the right people involved, have a clear agenda and stay on time • To build mastery it’s OK to be bad at something in the beginning and deliberately get better • Sharing the reason why the customer chooses the product, rather than how much was earned from the sale, is motivational More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2LewoiU You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2LewoiU

Edith Harbaugh, CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, adores software so much that she's built a product that helps other companies build

Edith Harbaugh, CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, adores software so much that she’s built a product that helps other companies build

In the latest episode of Caveat Founder, we hosted Sean Byrnes and Edith Harbaugh. Edith and Sean discuss the importance of directly asking for money when fundraising and ponder why most founders, including serial founders, often underestimate the difficulty of getting early customers.

In the latest episode of Caveat Founder, we hosted Sean Byrnes and Edith Harbaugh. Edith and Sean discuss the importance of directly asking for money when fundraising and ponder why most founders, including serial founders, often underestimate the difficulty of getting early customers. The post Ep. #4, Featuring Sean Byrnes and Edith Harbaugh appeared first on Heavybit.

Edith Harbaugh is the Founder & CEO @ LaunchDarkly, the startup that allows you to fearlessly and swiftly release software by separating feature rollout from code deployment. They have raised over $10m in funding from many previous guests of The Twenty Minute VC including Andy McLoughlin @ SoftTech, Josh Stein @ DFJ and the wonderful team at Bloomberg Beta. As for Edith, prior to LaunchDarkly, she was a Director of Product @ Tripit and Concur. Edith also holds two patents in deployment from her time in engineering at Vignette. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How Edith made her way into the world of SaaS and came to found LaunchDarkly? Does Edith agree with Jason Lemkin that the hardest element is the 1-10 customer phase? How has Edith navigated this process with her differing companies? How does Edith look to structure her sales team to successfully close Fortune 500 deals? What is the fundamental difference in selling to enterprise rather than SMB? What can founders do to make NPS a more intelligent metric? How can NPS be analysed effectively to tell you more about the state of your business? What are the signs of a truly great sales person? How do they aid not only their company but the customer they are serving? What is their required knowledge base? 60 Second SaaStr What is Edith’s fave SaaS resource? What does Edith know now that she wishes she had known before? Oakland Office: Why not SF? What are the benefits? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Edith Harbaugh  

Edith and Sean discuss how things have changed since Sean founded Flurry in 2005, they talk about how building a startup is just like running a marathon, and finally they share stories of just how easy it is to make the same mistakes twice.

In this episode we host Sean Byrnes, CEO of Outlier.ai, previously CEO of Flurry, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly.Edith and Sean discuss how things have changed since Sean founded Flurry in 2005, they talk about how building a startup is just like running a marathon, and finally they share stories of just how easy it is to make the same mistakes twice.For more Caveat Founder and other Heavybit podcasts, follow Heavybit on Twitter

Edith and Sean discuss how things have changed since Sean founded Flurry in 2005, they talk about how building a startup is just like running a marathon, and finally they share stories of just how easy it is to make the same mistakes twice. The post Ep. #2, Featuring Sean Byrnes and Edith Harbaugh appeared first on Heavybit.

In this episode, Yaron is joined by Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly. Edith and Yaron discuss the underlying parallels between fundraising, recruiting, and product.

In this episode, Yaron is joined by Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly. Edith and Yaron discuss the underlying parallels between fundraising, recruiting, and product. The post Ep. #2, Sales’ Impact on Pipeline and Negotiation appeared first on Heavybit.

Thanks for listening to Road To Growth, a bi-weekly podcast exploring what it takes for a sales team to succeed beyond merely hitting quotas. Our first guests include Iron.io CEO, Chad Arimura, LaunchDarkly CEO, Edith Harbaugh, Bluenose Analytics CEO, Don MacLennan, and Keen.io CEO, Kyle Wild. Each has a different perception of sales, and each offers valuable lessons for success that you can't miss.To join the show as a guest, contact us at roadtogrowth@heavybit.com or tweet at us at @roadtogrowth_