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Startup Best Practices 26 - Choosing Your Startup's Competitive Strategy

Tom Tunguz

A beer supplier sells to wholesaler sells to distributor sales to retailers sells to customer. Determining how to compete is a critical part of developing a startup idea. To do that, a startup must understand where opponents are strong, and where they are weak. The Azure team has built products to leverage that strength.

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Best Data Analysis Software

Neil Patel

Your team is the very pulse of your business, which is why their skillset is the most crucial factor when it comes to choosing a software tool. Figure out the technical knowledge of your team. Do you have a team of engineers and data scientists who know programming languages like Python, SQL, and R? User Skillset.

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The best SaaS apps have these 7 web application security controls

Audacix

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle.

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

SaaStr

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway.

Scale 196
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SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS: How the 3 cloud service models differ | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

SaaS ensures that consumers are always up to date with the latest version, while also ensuring that developers have a continuing source of revenue with which to maintain their product. Platform as a service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete environment for development and deployment over the internet. What is PaaS?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. When should one hire their first CS rep?

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. Which ones are we bad at?