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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. But during major platform shifts, like the current shift to AI, many companies have to rapidly shift product direction.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. If the smartphone is foundational to the social changes we’ve seen in the past decade, then the cloud is foundational to how business has changed.

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Ok, Google: Scale my SaaS business

Intercom, Inc.

They also turn their attention to AI trends in SaaS, and Matt offers his opinion on who’s doing it right and what advancements can we look forward to in that space in the next few years. Navigating AI trends in SaaS. When asked about ideal AI use cases within SaaS, Matt points to a few examples.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. Jessica Lin: Yeah.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jennifer Tejada: Another example we’ve seen plenty of in our customer world is this expedition of cloud migration. So, we’re now seeing customers that are reinventing, reinvigorating the customer journey, leveraging the cloud as an automation platform for that. MailChimp is like a marketing platform. What did you learn?

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Affectiva is bringing Emotion AI to the digital world. offers an applied customer-centric AI enterprise software that helps businesses make customer interactions more natural and valuable. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. Based in: New York.

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Evernote vs Onenote? Or High Time to Move to New-Age Playbooks?

SmartKarrot

Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. Cloud storage OneNote stores all the information, notebooks, and support documents, on the cloud. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11. In addition to this, OneNote can also be used as a standalone product.