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Etsy goes cloud native to better scale to seasonal demands

IT World

Popular online marketplace Etsy recently completed a two-year migration from 2,000 on-premises servers to Google Cloud. Etsy was founded in 2005, well into the internet era but long before the explosion of public cloud services. To read this article in full, please click here

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. Micro Acquire.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

User Pilot

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

User Pilot

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book " Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant" by professors W. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, unimaginable, impossible. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? So what do we do, right?

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. There can be many, many winners when you have compounding interest from users and from services. We can do the private marketplaces.