Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. VTubing – where creators live stream via an anime-style virtual avatar – is also becoming increasingly popular on Twitch, growing at 350% YoY.

Investment 140

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One powerful avenue is through the use of an exceptionally well-curated, comprehensive, and accessible virtual data room (VDR)! This is a simple table in which each row represents a spend category, and the sum of each row is roughly the quantum of capital which you are currently raising.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Considered in the fees are the types of credit card, processing type, and type of business — e.g., the merchant category code (MCC). Finally, the merchant category code (MCC) is a four-digit number that credit card companies use to classify consumers’ transactions. Amex and Visa, as a result, will have different interchange fees.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are plenty of “non-tech” companies that purely manipulate bits; as an example, virtually every financial services company is “atom free” in terms of ultimate products sold. Virtually every Fortune 500 company is focused on an AI strategy today. Inside sales? billion, against almost $2.8 The curves simply do not meet.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In a world filled with different web hosting options, VPS hosting has become a popular choice for websites in various categories. Upgrading to a virtual private server (VPS for short) will drastically improve your site performance if you’re currently on a shared hosting plan. Some sites can’t afford any downtime or slow loading times.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2024

When you look at how to segment your audience for messaging, consider these three broad categories: Industry: This is your wider audience that cares about who you are and what you do. Category: These are your decision-makers. Understanding these categories can help you tailor your messaging for optimum impact.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

Like nearly everything else, team building has gone virtual. The likes of Zoom , Google Hangouts, and Slack make virtual team building accessible to all employees. However, you might need to get a bit more creative to help virtual team building fit your company culture. Why is Virtual Team Building Important?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

To qualify for our invite-only networking, you must be willing to take up to 3, 15-minute virtual meetings with participating sponsors which we will help coordinate as a double opt-in process so the meetings are valuable for both you and the other participant. If you fall into one of these categories, Apply to Attend. Apply to Attend.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Join us for a stunning conversation about why now is the perfect time to found a company and create a new category. The virtual meeting space has barely begun to evolve. Articulating your product in a way that creates a category. I was hooked by the idea of using that virtual display for optimizing customer conversation.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Red Hat offers three groups of software products: Operating System (Linux and virtualization); Application Development (application server/JBoss); New Infrastructure (OpenShift, OpenStack and Ansible). Revenue contribution across these categories is 64%, 23% and 13%. Only 12% of revenue is professional services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. VTubing – where creators live stream via an anime-style virtual avatar – is also becoming increasingly popular on Twitch, growing at 350% YoY.

Investment 72

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Sales leaders and trainers (and their marketing counterparts) spent 2020 trying to figure out how to translate in-person conferences into compelling, engaging virtual events. And because COVID-19 still hasn’t gone away, sales conferences are still taking on a virtual format. AA-ISP Virtual Sales Summit. Unleash 2021.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

This probably is mostly true, especially since 70% of the top SaaS companies are really just new versions of old, established categories. About 70% of SaaS Unicorns Are New Versions of Existing Categories of Software. It virtually eliminates the headspace burden. A common VC-ism is that You Always Have Competition.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has practically pressured all businesses to go digital, or at least expand their virtual footprint. Not only are buyers favoring virtual interactions, but they are also now more than happy to make large purchases online. Companies that were unable to make the switch have suffered.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s more than doubling year over year, and it is in 1700 different categories. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. And what categories particular are software buyers looking for, and businesses are looking for. So virtual learning, but also in the business environment.

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Stax

JANUARY 31, 2024

So it’s virtually impossible for a business to not accept Visa cards. It’s organized by merchant category code (MCC). If your company accepts credit card payments ( which it should ), chances are, you’re going to be affected by Visa’s interchange rates. Visa is one of the biggest payment networks in the world, with ~4.2B

Payment Services 88

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Types of Text Annotation Text annotation can be accomplished through two main categories consisting of different methods as mentioned here. Chatbots and virtual assistants – A massive ratio of online virtual assistants and chatbots on websites are NLP-powered machines.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and a16z’s Jonathan Lai look discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds and how we create them. [00:40] I think there are 3 categories. I’m not on Tinder, but if someday Tinder has a Roblox app, can I send my virtual doppelganger for the first 3D meeting?

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2020

Isn’t sales just a bunch of guys in a virtual boiler room, trying to get people to buy stuff they don’t really need? But while that will still work at slightly higher price points, say $99 or $299/month or even a $5k ACV or so … in many categories, above that, your prospects will be expecting to talk to a true salesperson.

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SaaS Metrics

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Two popular choices for first-time website owners are shared hosting and virtual private server (VPS) hosting. In this article, we compare shared and VPS hosting across four categories to help you decide which web hosting is the right option for you. The categories are: But which solution is more suitable for your needs?

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Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2022

US thought leaders — including industry analyst powerhouses such as Gartner , Forrester , and IDC — define not only the yardstick for evaluating vendors in existing categories, but also new product categories, the trends driving their creation, the hype cycle of technologies behind that, and the “companies to watch” as categories emerge.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2020

With a pandemic on our hands, most sales conferences scheduled for the early part of 2020 have either been rescheduled or, if you’re lucky, made virtual. Here are the top virtual sales conferences, events, and training you need to know about. Virtual sales conferences. The Best Virtual Sales Conferences & Events in 2020.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

We did some hacky stuff, turning virtual assistants in the Philippines into SDRs, leveraging ToutApp (one of the first sales engagement platforms), and building web scrapers via Upwork to assemble endless leads lists. That same year, we started to do medium and large-scale webinars and virtual events. I got the job and locked in.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

I spoke to Ryan about how they created a new enterprise ops category: LearnOps. He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. And it wasn’t.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Spending Categories. It’s common for business credit cards to offer better rewards in certain spending categories. Let’s say a card offers you 5% cash back in the travel category (flights, hotels, Uber, etc.). Others will have higher percentages on specific categories, like 3% on gas, 2% on travel, 1% on everything else.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This graphic helps break it down a bit further: Before you can cut back on these expenses, you’ll need to divide them into different categories to understand what can be cut and what cannot. You can divide your e-commerce overhead into three different categories: 1. Fixed Overhead Costs. Of course, online marketing can be costly.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 31, 2021

The base calendar plugin is entirely free forever and comes with the month, list, and day views, has categories and tags, and is fully responsive. The Pro version with additional features, support, calendar views, recurring events, and advanced fields is $99 for one site, $149 for three websites, and starts at $299 for 10 or more sites.

Software Review 144

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Virtual and augmented reality (VR) technologies are included in this category. These fully submerging adventures are akin to entering a parallel virtual universe. However, making a good virtual user interface (VUI) is trickier than it looks. It’s just like chatting with your gadgets in a relaxed manner.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 2, 2022

Gartner’s analysts broke this chart out into two categories, and we were particularly struck by their recommendations in the “Support” and “Automation of Remote Operations” categories. These categories stood out to us for two reasons.

Technology 52

Technology Trends Healthcare Cloud 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

LLMs have been instrumental in enabling machines to understand, interpret and generate human language in a way that was previously impossible, powering everything from machine translation to content creation to virtual assistants and chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence 88

Artificial Intelligence SaaS AI Generative AI 88

Neil Patel

MAY 12, 2021

Facebook has templates for a range of business categories allowing you to customize the page depending on your sector. Some examples to consider are: virtual conferences Q&As virtual tours staff introductions. Coca-Cola’s digital promotion allowed consumers to send virtual Cokes on Facebook.

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Social Media Trends Advertising Branding 145

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As a whole, these plans can be segmented into four main categories—shared, VPS, cloud, and dedicated. Shared hosting is essentially the entry-level web hosting category. Your site won’t be as fast as it would if you were on a VPS (virtual private server) or dedicated hosting plan. The Different Types of Shared Hosting Companies.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Outsourced Development Software Review Scale 145

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

Discord (at least for now) is your virtual server — it’s your community.” It’s, it’s your virtual server, it’s your community, you can have an ongoing conversation with them. David Vogelpohl 23:44 For the eSports events, are you talking about live and virtual events? Discord, at least for now.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

box or virtual office address. Google has an array of categories , and many apply to B2B brands. Major categories include food establishments, attractions, professional services, personal services, entertainment, retailers, transportation, and more. This means you need a physical address, not a P.O.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Virtual credit cards have radically changed spend management. Bill.com bought Divvy for $2B+, but the whole category of next-gen spend management software for SMBs wasn’t really practical before the relatively recent development of true virtual credit cards. #6. It took until “Series I” for Bill to IPO.

SaaS Payments 55

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Scale 55

Unbounce

JULY 23, 2020

Here are the most popular types of campaigns you told us you’re running this year: The “Other” category also yields some varied answers, from paper mailers to podcasts to push notifications. Many say this shift to virtual gatherings will have a lasting impact on how they do event marketing.).

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Plan virtual events. Every weekly winner got to “spin” a virtual prize wheel (we made one here ) to determine their weekly prize. Our wheel had a few different categories with set dollar amounts. Once a rep landed on a category, they could choose from a few different options. Udemy has a great selection!).

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