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Etsy goes cloud native to better scale to seasonal demands

IT World

Popular online marketplace Etsy recently completed a two-year migration from 2,000 on-premises servers to Google Cloud. With two million items being sold in 2018, the in-house bare metal infrastructure was starting to creak. Etsy was founded in 2005, well into the internet era but long before the explosion of public cloud services.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . The Brazilian platform Superlógica is created with small service businesses in mind. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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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. Founded : 2018. Digibee enables less technical users to connect systems, services, and apps to deliver new digital products to the market. Founded : 2018. Founded : 2018.

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Scale vs. Intimacy – The old trade-offs do not cut it in the era of scale insurgency

OPEXEngine

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

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A Vendor’s Guide to B2B Ecommerce

FastSpring

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. A 2018 survey found that nearly half of companies make 50–74% of all their corporate purchases online. Is your business ready for the Future of B2B eCommerce? What Is B2B Ecommerce?

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8 Highlights From an Incredible Year at FastSpring

FastSpring

There’s no doubt 2018 was an incredible year for FastSpring and the entire ecommerce industry, and I look forward to continuing this momentum into the year ahead. This year we made it even easier for businesses to scale their online store on WordPress with our very own plugin. I’m excited to share some of the major highlights below: 1.

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3 Insights from Tien Tzuo’s Fireside Chat on the Subscription Economy

Navint

Tien Tzuo was the featured speaker for the Executive’s Club of Chicago inaugural program of its 2018-2019 Signature Series earlier this month. We can see how the customer is interacting with and using our service, therefore we have no choice but to make them happy. retail sales from 2012 to 2018.