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When did cloud computing start to become popular?

SaaStr

Around 2013 or so, the Cloud started to grow far faster than any of us had thought it would: Amazon Web Services revenue 2018 | Statista. That $200b+ of additional Cloud and SaaS spend fueled 50+ Cloud unicorns and massive growth in AWS, Azure, etc. We all knew before 2012–2013 it would be big. It’s still accelerating.

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TAM is Great. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years.

SaaStr

And the model said we’d need it … It also showed me that, barely, if you squinted, and the market grew just right … by 2013, there’d be $100m in ARR in our space. We probably should have raised $2m more, since it was offered. And so it is, although we didn’t capture 100% of it. appeared first on SaaStr.

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The startup hardware M&A market will be vibrant in 2013

Tom Tunguz

For example Belkin’s wifi-enabled plugtop “actually makes your house worse” Even the software of the market leader, Apple, is be terrible: “iTunes should die” , “iOS6 Maps is Awful” and as Bijan wrote, every one of the core iOS apps has been replaced with third party software.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Founded: 2013 Known customers: Lyft, Clearbit, Amplitude, AdRoll, Segment Price starts at: $249/month. #3 Intercom also has a proprietary conversational support module that you can tweak as per your needs.

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

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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The Fundamentals of Role-Based Access Control

BetterCloud

Grimes said as recently as 2013 that, “My favorite applications are the RBAC ones where almost no one is an admin, and even the admins are limited in what they can do.” In AWS, these attributes are called tags. Tags can be attached to IAM principals (users or roles) and to AWS resources.”

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On the Value and Power of Building Authentic Connections

OpenView Labs

Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed. Google Apps had captured significant market share, AWS was growing exponentially and Windows platforms were no longer the only game in town. But, despite all these transitions, AD was still the core platform for determining who had access to what.