OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2021

Back in another lifetime—exactly one year ago—Kyle and I offered up our pricing transformations for 2020. As we enter the post-pandemic economy and get used to the “new normal,” we’d like to look back on our 2020 predictions and share our thoughts on what’s in store for 2021. How did our 2020 predictions hold up?

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

The first is a production environment which handles all customer activity, the second is a development environment which handles all of the internal software development and testing. The development environment is a much lower percent of the total expense but it is significant enough to matter.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The light bulb was invented in 1879, but it wasn’t until 1930 that 70% of US houses had electricity.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2019

Where it makes sense to invest your precious resources when to outsource, and how to save yourself money without cutting corners. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. Again, I dated myself even more so it was the first popular agile software development process. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Both new and existing SaaS companies moved into developing industry-specific software, giving rise to Vertical SaaS companies. Horizontal SaaS companies develop and provide software for a specific function used by companies across all industries. Horizontal SaaS Companies. Financial Profile of Horizontal SaaS Businesses.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The special requirement was that salespeople in the field had to be able to write contracts offline.). “We Research: Software purchases will be the largest category by 2020, and most in-house projects do not succeed. Indeed, although building your own software might seem “seductive,” that allure may be fading.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

In early-stage startups in the pre-2020 area, it was very common to have people simply run to one of the product managers’ desks or to one of the engineers with one of those questions. We use a separate Jira project for the following reasons: Jira because it is well integrated into…Jira where we manage all our developers’ tickets.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Customer retention is very challenging for businesses especially in 2020. Here’s what Rand Fishkin shares when asked : Hubspot has a great resource: [link] — Rand Fishkin (@randfish) June 11, 2020. Benjamin Walker, CEO, Transcription Outsourcing , LLC. Alexandra Kovaleva, Marketer, DDI Development.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And then there was this great workplace experience of 2020, which we’re still living now. So now we’re in this, like you call it, the great workplace experiment of 2020, where we’re forced to be a hundred percent remote. So, state local governments, I imagine some of this is like the Jedi contract.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. It’s going well.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 25, 2025

Once transformers came around, we saw an explosion in LLM size and capability for example, Googles BERT model in 2018 was one of the first transformer-based LMs, and OpenAIs GPT-3 in 2020 took it further with 175 billion parameters (versus GPT-2s 1.5 Developers use LLMs to get quick code snippets, find bugs, or generate documentation.

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