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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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The IT Handbook to Choosing the Right SaaS App

BetterCloud

Some tools are called “best in breed”—meaning that they are generally ranked at the top of their market segment. Does using it remind me of Windows XP/2000? (No If it’s hosted on AWS and some AWS AZs go down, do they have continuity built in? Does the application have self-service support? Administration.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

New waves of technology come and go in the blink of an eye, each with its own wave of new founders trying to flip their start-up in a newly hot market segment. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. And to make matters worse, they again have just about no self awareness when it comes to this issue.