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?”

Cloud 109

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 109

BetterCloud

MARCH 31, 2020

Some tools are called “best in breed”—meaning that they are generally ranked at the top of their market segment. How does it look on different sized screens or mobile devices? If it’s hosted on AWS and some AWS AZs go down, do they have continuity built in? How responsive is it? Do the pages load quickly?

SaaS 59

SaaS AWS Software Review Systems Review 59

Outseta

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The company made a business intelligence tool that made it possible to visualize large data sets on a mobile device like an iPhone or iPad. Roambi was legitimately ahead of its time and market—the company began building a business application for the iPhone before Apple even released its software development kit for iOS.

Product Marketing 50

Product Marketing Marketing Sales Hiring Education 50

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. Today, well over half of website visits come from mobile phones instead of desktop computers. Tesla didn’t enter at a low-end or nonexistent market segment. Then, Sony’s transistor radios arrived on the scene. Smartphones. 3D Printing.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71