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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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Sequencing Business Models: So You Want To Be A Platform?

Casey Accidental

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. Integration Platforms.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, in Wall Street (1987) Leveraged Buyouts became “a thing” in the 1980s thanks to a form of financial engineering called junk debt. Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), Inside sales?

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. Some SMM companies may use all four depending upon the business model. Direct Sales.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple. You had town car services before.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing.