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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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What Are SaaS Products + 22 Successful SaaS Companies to Follow

User Pilot

TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

And as a result of this large concentration of spend, these large cloud vendors have created cloud marketplaces that allow you to take that $158 million of committed spend and actually use it to procure startup solutions and other ISV solutions on their respective marketplaces. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

One has 400, but they’re new VCs, not brand new VCs, but new funds. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. You can mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday, but these are endemic issues that will always need heavy software.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.