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The Next WebMD: An LLM as Your Front Door to Healthcare

Andreessen Horowitz

But when we turn to this protocol, what we’re effectively looking for is: Someone who knows enough to help us navigate to the right type of service (e.g. The size of the prize Not only is this a great opportunity to improve human health, patient experience, and provider experience, but the business case is also very clear.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tom Tunguz

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” To sustain these growth rates, startups like these require lots of cash because of the customer acquisition payback period, and the more tenuous ones need capital to prove the business model actually works at scale.

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SaaS Funding Napkin, the 2017 edition

The Angel VC

In less earth shattering news, the fact that it's 2017 also means that my "SaaS Funding in 2016" napkin needs an update. As a reminder, in the original post I tried to give a "back of a napkin" answer to this question: What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016? Enough words. Here's the 2017 SaaS Funding Napkin!

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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Jonathan Anguelov on Aircall’s $65 million Series C success

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: One of Aircall’s superpowers is that it built an App Marketplace – and then opened it up for partners to build their own integrations. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. Short on time? That’s the power of becoming a platform.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade. The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup.

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Why Growth Hacking Doesn’t Scale, And How To Plan For Growth Instead

Sales Hacker

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. In 2016 Randy was on track to grow the business from $4M to $6M with a big deal that could take it close to $7M.

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