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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. Health information sites like Google and WebMD make the majority of their revenue through ads; in 2016, the year before WebMD was taken private, it did $561 million in advertising revenue.

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The Hottest Startup Sectors in 2016

Tom Tunguz

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014.

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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?

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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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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. We can’t wait to meet them.

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The most exciting Latin American SaaS Startups

SaaStock

Metatext offers a solution to help SaaS entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as customer services, marketing and insights. Elevator pitch : NEO MED is a marketplace aiming to simplify the relationship between Clinics, Laboratories and Hospitals that need medical reports and the to physicians writing these reports.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Historically, channel distribution has been reserved for the most expensive software and hardware. ” Microsoft 2016 Annual Report You can read more about IDC’s analysis of Microsoft’s channel structure here. With a self-service model, customers who have more specific needs are left in the cold.