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Software Transcends Borders—Why Not Money?

Andreessen Horowitz

Software is inherently global and easily transcends borders—localizing it can be as easy as translating the language. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Who is the Google of Brazil?

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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. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

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Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), With this faster method of calculating, what might have taken weeks could now take seconds. Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. What about complicated corner cases?

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5

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As Software Platforms Grow, So Do the Oligopolies

Software Platform Consulting

The recent news reminds me just how many markets are becoming oligopolistic–especially those dominated by platform software. Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Discover is #4.)