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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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Why we're abuzz that Brightback is joining Chargebee!

BrightBack

billing, product, CRM, support), to deploy and test personalized user experiences that actually save customers, and to hire product managers with the time to run ongoing experiments, track results, and optimize at scale. What’s Next?

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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. The company makes little from the operating system itself, but the more Android phones that are out there, the more Google collects in mobile ad and app revenue.

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Best Business Process Management Software

Neil Patel

Leadership can leverage your BPM platform to track tons of useful data for measuring productivity, forecasting costs, and further refining processes. Set rules that automatically route tasks, files, data to the right person or team. Scope out the solutions on the vendor website to see examples of who’s having success with each product.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

Transforming the design landscape since 2011, Sketch continuously upgrades itself for the newest technical environments. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. In a press release , the financial process automation firm confirmed a 124% increase in its payment volume. Salesforce.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

If you send that cold email personalized to every SaaS investor at eight to 10K or beyond, I think you’re going to get some meetings. The closer you are to B2C and, to some extent, eCommerce, you’re going to see more impacts in SMB, and in infrastructure, cloud and enterprise you’re going to see less.

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