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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. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. ZenDesk basically keeps your business in sync.

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Becoming Indistractable

ProfitWell

And as one of the first sectors to adopt the subscription business model, they have always empathized with the value of providing engaging experiences to readers. Succeeding in subscription also means having business flexibility—try new things and iterate quickly on offerings, as ultimately, needs change. Scribd + $58 million.

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14 Key Business Lessons SaaS Companies Can Learn from Netflix

SmartKarrot

Personalize your product. Since the early days, Netflix has been personalizing its users’ experience by recommending movies based on their viewing history and other factors such as their location or tastes in music and books. Netflix has built a great customer support experience for its customers.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog. No one rises to the top of their game without intentional growth and learning. Agile Selling.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. He had a sense for it.

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