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5 Interesting Learnings from Canva at Almost $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Canva: – Almost $2B ARR – Growing 40%+ – Profitable And … 4,000 employees That's about $500k in revenue per employee That's where software really makes money — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? jasonlk) December 19, 2023 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. That’s awfully impressive.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks.

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What Are SaaS Products + 22 Successful SaaS Companies to Follow

User Pilot

TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

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The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS: Where It’s All Going with Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi (Podcast #505 and Video)

SaaStr

Open Source is one of the most successful enablers of global innovation in history, and Linux has grown into the most important software platform in the world, dominating every market it enters. Linux is the #1 internet client, makes up 100% of the supercomputer market, and is second to Windows when it comes to enterprise software platforms.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate. Our job as software professionals is to make it worth it to them. Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Collaboration delivers leverage. Feature agility is sexy.

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B2B Sales and Strategies Explained

FastSpring

Unlike B2C, which is business to consumer sales, B2B sales focus on selling to businesses, not individual consumers. A company that sells bananas to individual customers is an example of B2C sales. B2B sales aren’t only typically higher in value than B2C sales, but often much more complex. Software Sales. Supply Sales.

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Navigating Choppy SaaS Waters

Chart Mogul

You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. I’m getting a fair bit of inbound recently from B2C SaaS companies, offering me significant discounts to switch to annual billing. Although, you might drop the training wheels pretty fast.

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