OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In my experience, the most viable and successful ideas sit at the intersection of two types of innovation. On one side, there’s product-based innovation, which might be about a technological advancement or a new way to apply an existing technology. Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Unlocking a new business model.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. For us, the SaaS model Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered was an amazing one to look at. Key takeaways.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

He’ll walk you through the three stages of growth: 0-$1M — From nothing to something $1M-$10M — Building, innovation, and customers $10M-$100M+ — Scaling and thriving And what sustainable growth strategies you can implement (and pitfalls to avoid) wherever you’re at in your SaaS journey. Next 40 employees? An additional 5%.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. Salesforce AppExchange: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Growth from Salesforce. Maintaining an innovative edge. Then you move on from there.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency. It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

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CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is one such approach that helps adopt architectural best practices (whether or not you run on AWS) and adapt continuously.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . Marketplaces will enable creative and flexible new business models.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. Jen Nguyen: And we create this entire infrastructure to support this 1-to-1 seating model so that everyone under one location could be there at the same time. Is AWS in the lead? ”, the kind of foundational ERP systems.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

If you spend much time in the startup and tech ecosystem, you’ve probably heard the term “disruptive innovation” more times than you can count. But not all companies that are commonly known as disrupters actually fit the traditional definition of disruptive innovation. Innovations are mischaracterized as disruptive. 3D Printing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation. If we project out and keep the pace of innovation, think about what will happen in the next five years. Amazon wasn’t built as a Cloud business or storage company. They hope to reach 50%.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s the world’s worst way to help people find the right software for their business, because every company is different. Every region in the world has very different business models. It was: you go to a vendor site, you fill out a form, some sales rep calls and qualifies you, and then you go through this awful process.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. ” Usually in the valley, you see an older, stodgy company that’s trying to buy into valley innovation and valley culture. I love Jeff.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

In this chat with a16z General Partner David Ulevitch from the second American Dynamism Summit , he discusses the importance of entrepreneurship for maintaining America’s status as the most innovative place on the planet. It’s our… starting with me, my ignorance, your ignorance, that keeps this business in business.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing, to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny, which is in fact what we did. So we spent a lot of time there. So finding ways to address that is obvious.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Byron : And so, what used to be this eCommerce trend or this consumer trend where the cool kids were very much the consumer-only businesses, in some way that’s changing. Twice for retail.

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