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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Facebook and Twitter, meanwhile, struggled under the unavoidable pressure of hosting half a globe’s worth of daily online communication. The scale is extraordinary. There are about 3.2

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6 SaaS Development Services Your Startup Needs In 2024

How To Buy Saas

Startup businesses usually look towards SaaS when they need to scale quickly, reduce IT overhead, or access sophisticated tools without huge costs. Platforms like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services are good examples in this regard. It’s a perfect match if you need flexibility, constant updates, and global access.

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What Are SaaS Products + 22 Successful SaaS Companies to Follow

User Pilot

Shopify enables product management, payment processing, and landing pages for seamless e-commerce operations and growth. Netflix offers personalized video recommendations, multiple profiles, and offline viewing for a high-quality streaming experience globally. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

This treatment is a disservice to the value an in-depth, methodical, and iterative analysis can unearth. ” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Scale reveals the depths of operational leverage. It documents the business your product is building.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

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Best WordPress Plugins

Neil Patel

They all use the WordPress content management system (CMS) to power their websites. In short, it can make a website look more professional, run faster, and enhance functionality. There are more than 55,000 plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory, and that’s excluding at least a thousand more on third-party websites.

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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

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. They’ve architected the way they do payments differently in Europe.