How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

For SaaS and tech firms, the message is clear: mastering the full-stack AI (data pipelines, compute, ML models and application layers) is critical for innovation and growth. also leads in AI funding: 2024 saw $109.1 leads in innovation, it also drives conversations on AI safety and ethics.) alone (about 12× China’s).

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

LLMs are fantastic first-pass filters and phenomenal classifiers that extract insight or build machine learning features from unstructured data like customer support conversations or sales calls. Executive teams and boards are demanding innovation with LLMs and data. Looker did this within the context of a BI system.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Intercom team is looking forward to showcasing our latest features and improvements to the world’s leading Business Messenger and powerful customer support product. Our leading customer communication platform is used by the most innovative companies worldwide, such as Unity, Spendesk, (add approved customer logos in here).

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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. This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The second army are your main competitors. Mid-stage startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

All of Intercom’s production infrastructure is provided as a service to Intercom by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is the leading cloud provider in the industry, and we leverage their portfolio of globally redundant services to ensure Intercom runs reliably. We continue to ship new and innovative products.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning. Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation. For example, machine learning models can forecast sales, optimize pricing, and evaluate investment scenarios in real time. Imagine having an army of 10,000 super-smart workers willing to do your bidding 24/7 for free.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Anna Khan | VP @ BVP.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking to join SaaS founders and tech enthusiasts who are discussing the most innovative trends for SaaS companies? Since 2016, SaaS North has been recognized as THE Canadian hub for rapidly-scaling SaaS founders and their teams. If so, join FastSpring at the SaaS North November 15-16th! Schedule a demo now or at SaaS North in person!

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 158

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Lessons learned from scaling innovative products and go-to-market motions at AWS. 32:49 – Challenges faced and insights gained during Linda’s time at AWS. Why a modern go-to-market approach requires moving beyond legacy CRM systems. The power of cold outreach and persistence in finding the right co-founders.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. The hyperscalers benefit from massive scale, distribution, trust and depth of customer relationships in ways no other software companies do. Sometimes new workloads are AI related.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? They can make donations for those charities.

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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. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. We’re helping startups and scale-ups that are strategically aligned with Salesforce, which is actually very important in terms of actually delivering solutions.

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CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Given the speed and intensity of competition in this market, it’s essential to SaaS success at any scale — and at any point on the lifecycle of your SaaS product offering. Let’s take a closer look at what that means and how it works.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. Can also be responsible for PQLs, if there is a sales motion to upsell self-serve. Driving pipeline for sales (SLG). Efficiency.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10. All the leading platforms reviewed below like Workable, Greenhouse, and Breezy HR are SaaS solutions that serve companies globally with multi-language support and compliance features (e.g., Companies might need admin time to customize it to their processes.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Also, there is less pressure on Sales. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. So pick accordingly. #1 1 Intercom. 4 Pendo.io.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

com, Intercom has beaten all other live chat tools to become the top ranked choice for sales, marketing, and support teams who want to interact with visitors to their websites and users of their apps. While Elias appreciates our product innovation and personal support: . “[It] They want to be notified by Slack? Not a problem!

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Those on the front lines know that more competition means greater saturation of traditional marketing and sales channels, increasing customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions. AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce) to integrate, co-market, and grow together. Make sure your product page is polished, your messaging is clear, and your team is ready to support new leads.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Userpilot is a leading B2B product growth tool that excels at in-app engagement , product analytics, customer feedback collection, customer support, and integrations. Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency.

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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. . When it comes to the sales process, cloud marketplaces have clear benefits.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Those on the front lines know that more competition means greater saturation of traditional marketing and sales channels, increasing customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 69

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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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Analyze our performance and identify problem points Highlight the best performing lead sources Run sales forecasting Facilitate strategic decision-making Run our sales process and communicate with customers In addition, ChartMogul teams use various tools to manage go-t0-market functions, including Zendesk, Customer.io, and Livestorm.

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Engineering K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Data AWS 52

Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Innovative. Proven ability to scale a start-up from the ground up. Experience scaling and improving performance on evolving software and web applications. Previous experience scaling a social media account to impressive numbers. Prior experience with building architectural patterns for large, high-scale web applications.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. If you’re scaling the parameters up, you have to scale the data with it. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to get the bang for the buck from scaling. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Performance-wise, GPT-4 Turbo leads many benchmarks. leads on coding and human-preference leaderboards. Pro as now the world-leading model across various leaderboards , and educators preferred it for AI tutoring tasks. According to Scale AIs SEAL leaderboard, Llama 3.1 and improved following of detailed instructions.

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The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack December 5, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO & BERLIN–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Contentful , the leading content infrastructure for digital teams, today announced $33.5 Contentful Announces $33.5 million in Series D equity funding.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I guess, if my strategy was to show up and to try and lead an $80 million round and write a $50 million check to do that, and you’re like, “Wait a second, 275 divided by five people, your piece of that’s probably 55. I don’t know if they should think anything of it. Jason Lemkin: Yeah. That’s the question.

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