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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet. The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing.

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How to Choose The Right Adwords Agency

Neil Patel

You’d think with 600 million devices running ad blockers —advertising would be less effective. percent of search advertising, roughly $40.3 Advertisers couldn’t afford to continue spending that much money on ads if they didn’t work. Advertising can’t save awful products.

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What the Public Markets Trends Say About the Fundraising and M&A Environment Startups

Tom Tunguz

Advertising-driven models, SaaS business models, consumer hardware and marketplaces are all represented in the earnings figures so far. But Amazon’s massive EPS miss has more to do with large scale capital investment in AWS than a lack of a profitable business or customer base.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

Besides building a growth model and forecasting your growth from it, which I absolutely recommend you should do, what are the factors that contribute to how quickly you need to be investing in that second product after the first product finds product/market fit? B2B requires suite expansion. Why does B2B require suite expansion?

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. Think of the business model behind being an independent board member.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. How the hell does that happen? As a result, Buildium took many chances on up and coming talent—myself included.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. This wasn’t the case.