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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. A look at our pricing history Our ASP also reflects the changes we’ve made to our pricing model over the years.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

My job was to look at what was happening in the world economy – it was like 2010 at the time, and so everything was kind of falling apart – and then look at data about it and try to come up with recommendations about what policymakers should do. It was a collaborative, kind of a Slack-type product that was mobile-focused.

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Taming SaaS Security Challenges with the Zero Trust Security Model

BetterCloud

With an increasingly mobile workforce and the spread of shadow IT, plus the rapid rise of cybercrime, companies must find new ways to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio. The model has been promoted by Forrester as “Zero Trust” since as early as 2010 and has also been adopted by Google as “BeyondCorp.”.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Nathan Collier I remember when that was happening because I was I was working at a company right around, you know, or 2010 around that time when that whole like making calls out of your computer tied to a CRM that was pretty new during I mean even I mean, that was after it had already been on the market. And we did this together.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Parse was a mobile app platform that got acquired by Facebook. At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. That’s how early I was. We launched SMS a year later.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-founders of project management software company Basecamp , weighed in on this exact topic in their 2010 book Rework. Take for example Charles Towers-Clark , CEO of POD Group , a maker of mobile connectivity solutions with offices in England, the US, and Spain. Planning is guessing.