CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. This is a not one-sided convenience to just make life easier for the technology side: it’s a delivery model that structures how resources within the SaaS platform serve your customers.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. See more about all 3 M’s in these two companion blog posts Part 1: User Model and Part 3: Measurement.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cloud Service Providers: Integrate data from popular cloud providers like AWS , Azure, or Google Cloud to track resource consumption and costs.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

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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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Netflix and Snap have worked on more interesting format shifts, building on entirely new technologies to deliver their value props on new forms of media. Historically, the factor that most people use as a heuristic is the business model. B2B requires suite expansion. Why does B2B require suite expansion?

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2014

Through last week, 80% of fast-growing technology companies who reported Q2 earnings had met or exceeded expectations, on average by 4%. As the earnings season has progressed , the tech sector is showing impressive signs of strength and predictability in the underlying companies’ business.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2021

From technological advances to the promise of unlocking latent demand, Deloitte investigates where this pricing model’s disruptive potential comes from. Is Usage-Based Billing the Right Choice For Your Business? Plus, they go into detail about which businesses should not adopt this pricing strategy. Miscellaneous.

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s likely that you have seen one of Martech’s Marketing Technology Landscape diagrams illustrating the rapid growth from ~150 players in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017: Increased competition and saturated markets have eroded differentiation and perceived-value between products. with numerous upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model? Xero expense overview.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

IaaS users are still left to handle this aspect of their technology stack by themselves. Servers and data storage — Finally, because all three cloud service models are delivered via the internet, they all handle management of servers and data storage for the user. Small/Medium/Large businesses with limits on resources: SaaS.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

For vendors going through that digital transformation with their customers, what is the right tone to adopt that is both empathetic and achieves business objectives? Is digital transformation a technology challenge or a behavioral challenge? * What were John’s biggest takeaways from running Domo’s annual event virtually?

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. AI/ML is not a single technology, but a multitude of different technologies with their specificity.

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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 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. Verb Technology.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

In the last five years, usage of the terms “disruptive innovation” and “disruptive technologies” has soared. Both disruptions radically redefined content platforms, business models, and customer habits. These models used vacuum tubes and offered excellent sound quality, but they were inefficient, clunky, and expensive.

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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. Obviously we’ve seen a lot of changes in terms of tech and business models, but what would you say has stayed the same in that space?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

On one side, there’s product-based innovation, which might be about a technological advancement or a new way to apply an existing technology. On the other side, there’s business-based innovation, which might have to do with how you go to market or a business model. Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

It produces a challenging messaging strategy because if your primary business model is selling support on an open-source project, you’re kind of incentivizing your team to build shitty software, and nobody ends up happy. The more technical your end user is, the more likely it is that they’ll value a technology being open source.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to the financial numbers that get thrown around in start-up land—I don’t care what TechCrunch says, I don’t care what your market cap is—I think it’s clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. How the hell does that happen?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future. Jason Lemkin: But long.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. And yet, historically, their product teams, internally, have had strong, very talented resources, but very little technology to accomplish their goals and very little product for the product teams, ironically. Twice for retail.

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