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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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The Quirky M&A Environment for SaaS Companies in 2016

Tom Tunguz

The largest private software acquisition is Transfirst, a payment software business founded in 1995. The second largest, Jasper, is an internet of things software company founded in 2004, which Cisco acquired for $1.2B. Excluding LinkedIn, nearly 5x more dollars have been spent on acquiring public companies.

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How We Launched A New SaaS Start-up 50% Faster Using Outseta

Outseta

Then we did what everyone else in SaaS does—we evaluated, bought, integrated, and maintained a whole bunch of other SaaS products. The idea behind the product My Co-founder Dimitris has built software products for the real estate rental market before, Co-founding Buildium in 2004. A billing system. CompareRentalBookings.com.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. It is unlikely that a Next Gen Engine emerges that simultaneously tries to serve as many use cases on as many platforms as we see with Unity and Unreal today. How Will a Next Gen Creation Engine Arise?

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.