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Don’t Sell SaaS Like It’s 2012 with Reprise Co-Founder Evan Powell and Glasswing Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Rudina Seseri (Video)

SaaStr

Quit trying to innovate in isolation. There are those who dream and innovate and those who take it to customers. The post Don’t Sell SaaS Like It’s 2012 with Reprise Co-Founder Evan Powell and Glasswing Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Rudina Seseri (Video) appeared first on SaaStr.

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Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change

Andreessen Horowitz

There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and limits to being a private company as well; but it’s rare to see a company go public then private then back to public again.

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How SaaStr Built the World’s Largest Community for Business Software with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

and Canadian governments provide more than $20 billion in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to fund businesses. Since 2012, Launch has worked with more than 6,000 entrepreneurs from over 100 countries, of which 300 have grown their startups to seed and Series A stage and raised over $2 billion in funding.

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Year in review: Best of 2012

Tom Tunguz

It’s all thanks to you, bold entrepreneurs and intrepid founders who continue to chase big ideas, tackle challenging problems, dare to dream of disruption and innovation - and provide an unending supply of inspiration. Thank you all for making 2012 a memorable year. Top 10 Blog Posts of 2012. I hope you enjoy it.

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From Bacteria to Bedside: The Arrival of CRISPR Medicine

Andreessen Horowitz

And it’s a milestone barely a decade in the making: the original publications describing CRISPR’s potential date back to 2012. Base and prime editing, along with recent innovations like PASTE programmable gene insertion, are pushing the boundaries, offering more precise and versatile tools for eliminating genetic disorders.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. In 2012, the website was transformed into the Atlassian marketplace, giving plugin developers the opportunity to make money off of their plugins. Key takeaways from Atlassian’s experience.

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5 Predictions for 2021

Tom Tunguz

Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation. The IPO market hasn’t been this hot since at least 2012, but likely since the dot-com era. The M&A market continues to surge.