Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Updating the data engineering stack streamlined data processing; reducing the time and effort invested in manual data handling. Nowadays, these are packaged and deployed in docker images, and executed via AWS lambda or EKS pods each day. We used our daily AWS RDS snapshots and loaded them daily to Snowflake tables.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. Rather than slow our engineers down, we invest in systems and build a culture around what it means to build fast and safe. That’s why we also invest in mechanisms that allow us to recover from issues even faster than we deploy.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As innovation in Fintech SaaS increases, so does the pressure to safeguard sensitive data. But Andy says Fintech SaaS is hitting a big challenge: mixing innovation with tight security. Fintech companies are all about pushing tech boundaries, but the more they innovate, the bigger the risk of sophisticated cyber threats.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Salesforce AppExchange). SaaS companies can invest in robust support infrastructure (e.g., Scalability and integration capabilities ISV solutions may require additional infrastructure investments to support scalability. They require manual upgrades to handle increased demand.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Innovation Acceleration Technology providers are incentivized to offer superior services and optimize their offerings. The adoption of usage-based pricing fuels innovation and ensures that customers have access to the latest and most efficient technologies. Investing in robust billing and invoicing systems.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Those awesome new tricks that seem to show up out of nowhere within cloud-first applications like Google Workplace, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, Stripe, the iPhone, and Amazon (both eCommerce and AWS)? The operations team is just the last step between brilliant innovations and the nice people with the money. That’s a mistake.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. Before getting started with PLG, you need to make sure that. Also, there is less pressure on Sales.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I’ve launched multiple companies, and I know that when you choose to turn a vision into reality, you’re committing to investing seven to fifteen years of your life in the project. In my experience, the most viable and successful ideas sit at the intersection of two types of innovation. Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. To “soften the beach,” you need to expend as little energy and investment as possible while learning as much as possible. Invest in and put that into the market to start softening the beach.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

With demonstrable success from Netflix and AWS, more companies are starting to offer their core businesses as microservices to expand their customer and revenue base. Though we are still in the early phases of innovation, there are proven methods for achieving a higher degree of maturity for managing sprawling applications in the cloud.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

One innovation behind Workplace is its News Feed-based algorithm , which has been fine-tuned to respond to work use cases. I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2022

Pop any venture firm’s website into the wayback machine , peruse the bios from the late 90s, and you’ll see statements like “I invest in Internet companies.” Then the infrastructure innovations disappear beneath the delightful application and we move onto the next wave with its own buzzwords. ” Or Web2.0

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And we’re also pleased, now to have almost a hundred thousand different SaaS products listed there, and being backed by a hundred million dollars from LinkedIn and some great investors that do allow us to keep investing in this marketplace. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi, shares why Open Source is becoming a multi-billion investment, why it’s taking over multiple industries, and why it’s here to stay. For us, the SaaS model Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered was an amazing one to look at. Innovation happens more easily on Open Source in a SaaS model. Key takeaways.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are the top 15 venture capital podcast leaders shaping the industry with their visionary and thought leading podcasts covering a range of topics from startups, investments, trends, interviews, and more! He invested in more than 20 early-stage companies. Azeem is also a creator of the Exponential View newsletter and podcast.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. ” I’m like, that sounds awful.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Treasure Data platform instantly analyzed large amounts of data, which meant that companies didn’t need to hire lots of computer scientists or put up a considerable upfront investment for data projects. . Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. The platform innovations slowed temporarily, which drove churn higher.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

But these days, there are so many innovative and impactful tools that can massively streamline your workflows and help to set you up for success as you scale. And more importantly – which ones are really going to deliver a return on investment for your precious (and limited) budget? AWS – Cloud computing. Apply now.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Tables have turned because I first met Mikkel when just after I was working for previous fund index, he had just invested. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. What kind of customer experience, what kind of innovation do we need to help do you gather? It was 7, 6 years. Mikkel : Multi billion.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Tools require investment, but they also require planning to ensure that they are used by the right people in the right way. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Naturally, your first choice is likely to be between choosing between AWS DevOps or Azure Devops.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Flex is a finance super app built around a credit card with unique Net-60 day terms that enables businesses to make an investment today and pay it back 60 days later with zero percent interest. Fora is an innovative executive relationship management (ERM) platform poised to transform C-suite decision-making through cutting-edge AI technology.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Scaling through SaaS accelerates this process by offering several benefits that make it easier for companies to grow without having to make major investments up front: Speed: SaaS solutions are easy to deploy and can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection, which enables teams to work from any location at any time.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A good product with lousy support is the same as an awful product with good support in terms of customer retention. And as the world innovates faster than ever before, customer perceptions become even more critical. Testimonials work because they show customers that other people found your company worthy of their investment.

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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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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. If you’ve used the AWS IAM (identity access management) console, you realize how complex access control has become. I’m starting to see that archiecture more and more, but with a twist.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using LLMs to enhance these solutions will no longer be seen as innovative but will become the standard.” Capital will return to SaaS markets, and M&A activity will accelerate Yoram Wijngaarde , CEO and Founder of Dealroom “VC investment into SaaS companies could start growing again in 2024.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. And then helping being able to drive innovation across the company.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. We make early stage Series A investments in both consumer and enterprise companies. I was lucky enough to invest when it was three founders and a PowerPoint deck.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

But it is really incredible and inspiring to see how these companies and these cloud leaders have ushered in this new phase of innovation and growth, even in the hardest moments of society. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering. Because more and more hardware is becoming soft.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results.

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