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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures

SaaStr

Additionally, if you look at the mobile shift, the iPhone was released in 2007 but we didn’t get our first mobile apps like Uber and Snapchat until 2009 and 2010. It wasn’t until years later that Workday and Salesforce and a whole generation of SaaS companies came along to build on top of that infrastructure.

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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

2007: Salesforce integration. We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. As the web began to grow, just having Mobile Sign and Safari compatibility alone could win deals. “Do you want 80% of your customers to be able e-sign your contacts? We won a lot of those deals. 2008: Cross-platform.

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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

2007: Salesforce integration. We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. As the web began to grow, just having Mobile Sign and Safari compatibility alone could win deals. “Do you want 80% of your customers to be able e-sign your contacts? We won a lot of those deals. 2008: Cross-platform.

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Around the World in 21 Days

Tom Tunguz

credit: Wired There at the top of the post is a photo of the 2007 APM class, coincidentally my class (I’m there on the right), departing San Francisco for a trip that would take us to Tokyo, Beijing, Bangkok, Bangalore & Tel Aviv. Aakash Gupta published Product Requirements Documents (PRDs): A Modern Guide.

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How to Build a Product Customers Love and Drive Nearly $1B in Revenue Along the Way with Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki

SaaStr

They began with email, then SMS, and now mobile. When Klaviyo started during the post-2007-2008 recession hangover, it was a great time to build. How do you sequence an idea so massive? How do you build a brain for a business, marketing, and within marketing, narrowing down to which channels matter?

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Nassim Taleb, a 90s Mobile Game, and Why Payment Gateways Alone Don’t Offer Revenue Growth

Chargebee

In 2007, mathematical statistician and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that inflexibility, even in the most meticulously built systems, ultimately makes them fragile. Take the example of Taneli Armanto’s late-90s breakaway mobile game – “Snake.” ” The objective […]

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The Best 5 Mobile Developers’ Portfolios: Showcasing Top Talent

TurnKey Labs

Nowadays, there is no doubt that mobile app development is a thriving industry. Perhaps on June 29, 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced, few people in the world realized what a huge billion-dollar industry mobile apps were turning into.

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