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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

But then mobile was the next obvious thing. I actually moved to Europe where a friend of mine was doing an IPO of a company and he acquired the mobile company almost as an afterthought. And then we started to really go down the path of mobilizing the internet, creating infrastructure for others to create mobile websites.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

For example, Stax APIs and mobile development kits enable secure in-person, online, ACH, and mobile payments on any platform. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Salesforce AppExchange). SaaS providers use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to establish connections between their software and other applications.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . Big tech takes over.

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The best SaaS apps have these 7 web application security controls

Audacix

A cloud server, like an AWS EC2 instance, is still a server. The only difference is that it is sitting in AWS' datacentres, rather than in your office. Everything that you read here is relevant to you whether you host your own web applications or use a cloud platform like AWS. Not really.

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Heap vs Pendo: Which is the Superior Product Analytics Tool?

User Pilot

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. It also supports both mobile and web apps. In Heap, you can segment users based on their demographics and event completion, while in Pendo you can also use mobile-specific data, like the OS version.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

. “[Our research] opened up new markets for this product without them having to go through the other kinds of experimentation they were originally planning” After doing a bunch of analysis and digging into it, they realized the videos were too slow in certain countries because of where their data centers or AWS environments were located.

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The State of Subscription Apps with RevenueCat’s CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard

SaaStr

There’s a lot to learn from our mobile-first comrades because it’s even harder over there than it is over here. Lesson #2: Conversion to Paid Is Fairly Low While Free Trial Offerings Are Way Up 70% of mobile subscription apps now offer free trials, at least in part. Back to the consumer market. That’s a lot of dollars up for grabs.