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

Tom Tunguz

But as I went back last night and reread Porter’s Competitive Strategy, I was surprised to learn that Porter’s intended value chain analysis to be used also at the business unit and at the company level. A unique selling strategy (Salesforce). Determining how to compete is a critical part of developing a startup idea.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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Conversation Intelligence Vs Conversational Intelligence: The Difference Is Much Greater Than You Think!

SmartKarrot

Businesses can utilize conversation intelligence platforms to enhance their sales and customer service strategies. Since conversation intelligence records and tracks every call that comes through, these tracking numbers can be raised to 100% and identify weak aspects of business calls that might have been missed by human analysts.

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Top 6 SaaS Business Intelligence Platforms: Revealed!

SmartKarrot

Do you and your team work with Microsoft products such as Office, SQL Server, and SharePoint? The primary target audience for Power BI are everyday business users and not just BI developers. The tool is developed keeping users and decision-makers in mind. Weaknesses . Weaknesses . Weaknesses .

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

As Frank Slootman (Snowflake CEO) said, “Enterprises are also realizing that they cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy to base it on.” Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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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.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works?