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Apple's AI Challenger Sale

Tom Tunguz

Enterprises push for their data to be under their control in virtual private clouds, in open data formats like Iceberg, to run AI models in their own environments - the cloud-prem architecture. 1 Many will debate whether the architecture is truly private.

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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

You really need a great CTO, not just a good business team. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the startup. You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. If you budget any less, you probably will fail. This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process enough in the early days.

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

SaaStr

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. How do you understand really if cloud marketplaces are right for your startup? Jabari Norton. Rico Mallozzi.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Can these startups actually make any money? We believe that AI startups who 1) build for enterprises’ AI-centric strategic initiatives while anticipating their pain points, and 2) move from a services-heavy approach to building scalable products will capture this new wave of investment and carve out significant market share.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). Enterprises will move pieces of their business over.

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