SaaStr
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Alison brings the perspective of all sides of a startup, from investing to SaaS to Cloud. For Google Workspace, they invested in expanding and building Google Meet and the rest of the workspace during 2020. What they’re seeing with GenAI and Google Cloud is an opportunity to grab share from AWS.
Buffer Resources
AUGUST 16, 2023
Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Up until 2016, we had retreats twice a year. Looking ahead at our future investments When we look ahead to future years, we anticipate that employee expenses will continue to make up the majority of our Operating Costs.
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Sales Hacker
JUNE 1, 2020
Publicly-traded, PLG businesses grow faster than their peers and are less reliant on expensive sales and marketing investments to fuel their growth. Back in 2016, Slack’s CEO, Stewart Butterfield, told Business Insider , “ I think we can get away without having a sales team in any kind of traditional way probably forever. doesn’t it?
The Angel VC
FEBRUARY 20, 2016
It could make seed and Series A investing harder because the percentage of seed and Series A funded SaaS startups that becomes really big would decrease - and VCs need large outcomes in order to make their business model work. Update 03/11/2016: I wrote a followup post to the post above.]. It’ll depend on who you ask.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 31, 2019
It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”
Audacix
AUGUST 4, 2019
Worryingly, Trustwave found as far back as 2016 that "fewer than one in four organisations consider themselves to be "very proactive" in the context of security testing." million, which is money that would otherwise have been invested in growth projects. Look them up.
OnStartups
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
I'm doing an "Ask Me Anything' (AMA) session on Product Hunt tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2016 at 10 am PST, 1pm EST). What do you think about competitor [X] -- aren't they just awful? Why is HubSpot investing millions of dollars in this? Would love for a decent number of people to sign-up.
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