Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Scalability Startups and enterprises alike can scale their technology usage in alignment with their specific needs. Innovation Acceleration Technology providers are incentivized to offer superior services and optimize their offerings. Investing in robust billing and invoicing systems.

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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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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. Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. One innovation behind Workplace is its News Feed-based algorithm , which has been fine-tuned to respond to work use cases.

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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. Ready to take your startup to the next level? Here are our best practices for choosing the right tools for your startup, as well as our top picks for every stage of your journey.

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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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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.” At some point, startups tinker enough with the new technology to discover the applications customers value most. ” Or Web2.0 But not anymore.

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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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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 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. We’d rent a car, get on the road, and go to all kinds of startups and give talks on Apache Spark to build up a community around it. Key takeaways.

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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. First of all, do we have any European SaaS startups here today? And there were no startup communities. No startup environment. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. As you know, I’ve spoken to many of our mutual friends in the VC, in the startup ecosystem. And then helping being able to drive innovation across the company. It’s that simple. Yousuf Khan: Yes.

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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. This is especially critical for startups and younger companies, who don’t have the resources of a large scaled marketing team. Seed funding.

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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.” Smart startups will focus their messaging on the problems they solve, not how they do it.” SaaS investment will close at around $100B this year, a four year low, and down from $264B in 2021.

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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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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage. It could come back.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. Paul Rosania: Well, I’ve been in and out of startups my whole career and my big break came close to 10 years ago now. Harry Stebbings: Terrible metaphor.

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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. . Tackle’s survey found that 70% of sellers are ready to invest more in marketplaces as a go-to-market strategy.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but 81% say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace. Innovation is about empathy with your customers. I can only sell to other startups that were ready to take on risk and to whom I don’t look any different.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Invest in your development internally and externally. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. Process driven innovator focused on scalable growth. Invest in your cross-functional partners. Build allies and ask for help. Hang Black.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

Our data centers are shut down, but as I was telling you earlier, AWS barely existed when we started our transformation. Took out millions of dollars and for every dollar we returned to the company, we got to keep 20 cents to do innovation work. Casey: And you guys still made it work. Peter: We did. Casey: Oh wow.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Emmet: As you were saying that, I was thinking about a time about 10 years ago now, I got to visit a city design studio, an innovation lab type place for a fairly well known car company. Google Drive might’ve done an awful lot to kill the file because they have a file system. Like about 10 years ago, they were one of the most –.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Found by Manoj Dawane in 2016, VTION is an Indian-origin media technology innovation company that aims at measuring media audiences by analyzing consumer trends and behaviors. Facilio Inc.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI. If we project out and keep the pace of innovation, think about what will happen in the next five years.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. It’s still really hard.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

So when you’re making those decisions as a startup or as a mid-size company or as an enterprise, the software you select can make or break your business. It helps me make better investment decisions around software. I think there’s a lot of ways we can innovate on the tool, but yeah. Selling authentically.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. 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. That really stuck with me.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

276: Liat Bycel is VP of Customer Engagement @ Airtable, the startup that works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power to organise anything. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Liat made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be VP of Customer Engagement at one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups in Airtable.

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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. ” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that. And what’s the best case?

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