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SaaS 2020 Planning: Global Market Trends

OPEXEngine

Meanwhile, the global public cloud software as a service (SaaS) market is hitting an annual run rate of $100B in 2019 and forecast to grow to US $157 billion in 2020, more than doubling the market size from 2014. Cost of revenue is trending down for SaaS companies, leading to higher gross margins. and Adobe is in third place with 6.7%

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. There is a great responsibility to ensure it trends towards the former, not the latter. Big tech takes over. Rise of mobile. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses.

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Sales Engagement Book Available for Pre-Order!

Sales Hacker

Of all those huge shifts in how sellers will do their jobs, I think the three biggest trends to watch will be: Relevance overtaking personalization. In 2014, Manny co-founded Outreach in 2014. Mark joined Outreach in 2014 as its first “employee”, taking the job as a 100% commissioned contractor. Mark Kosoglow.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. and, now, Salesforce buying Tableau, so that trend has continued.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

This is 2014 classified right in there you, you in did you pick up consulting clients? And, and I don’t love to run around all these trends. It’s interesting. So you had you publish all your content on the internet? Or was it was it straight to software? And out of that, we get ideas. I have a funny story. Business friend.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. So, the noise is going to be the uber trend for the future, more of it. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. So, we’ve got three of them here. Jason : All right. Aaron : 2016.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. It is staggering.