SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

When was Yammer started, a long time ago in internet time, ’08 or something like that? It’s the fact that everyone now has this fantastic internet connection and a amazing computer in their pocket all the time. The backstory to it was we were all consumer Internet folks who were tackling this enterprise problem.

Scale 336

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Thus, this ranking serves as a tool to identify and understand category trends, and not as an exhaustive ranking of all consumer AI platforms. Alongside ChatGPT, this category includes Google’s Bard and Quora’s Poe, all ranked in the top 5.

Generative AI 145

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The tech IPO narrative used to reflect stories that would include much of the below: Large markets Low or stagnant competition Rapidly growing markets Strong network effects or economies of scale Scarce talent pools A lot of those bullets can be explained by just the growth of the internet, and there being no entrenched internet-first competition.

Payments 113

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At Intercom, our mission has always been to make internet business personal – and we think the key to creating those personal connections between businesses and customers is to facilitate conversational experiences. This New Wave explores emerging technologies in the Conversation Automation space.

Machine Learning 104

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses. Modifying ratings schedules was particularly important in hard-to-insure categories like fire risk, where ISO created a single nationwide fire rating schedule that is still used today.

Data 125

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Lapeyre suggests that you scrape the data from the internet, then use that to tell you where to find your leads. Within each segment, they split up buckets of data in the following categories: Companies, Deal Creation, Close Rate, ACV, Market Share (which measures Gorias customer vs. competitor market share) and NRR.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Since then, many other types of software businesses have been created in new categories like agriculture technology and robotics. The chart above breaks out 14 different software categories and shows the amount of dollars invested in each category indexed to 2010 levels. Cybersecurity investments are classic hockey stick.

Startup 223

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Check out our Transparent Pricing Dashboard How our finances have evolved while staying true to our mission Looking at our finances over the last nine years, you’ll notice fluctuations within the different categories. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app.

Merchant Services 74

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In this era of ever-increasing digital disruption and innovation, category design can be the ultimate business strategy for brands wishing to stand out from the crowd. The book aims to help companies apply category design to open new markets and create new demand. and the Making of IBM , and The Two-Second Advantage.

Technical Review 205

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Incredo

JANUARY 29, 2020

Considering just how enormous the internet is, it can actually be relatively easy to get caught from doing something unethical. The same goes for SEO and using optimisation strategies. It covers many categories including travel, fashion, animals, film and more.

Software Review 328

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’re now looking at a massive Open Source category, Commercial Open Source (COSS), that’s impossible to ignore. Linux is the #1 internet client, makes up 100% of the supercomputer market, and is second to Windows when it comes to enterprise software platforms.

AI 230

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are really three investable opportunities in the category of “known knowns”: Sell software to incumbents Compete with incumbents, with generative AI at the core Buy incumbents and remake them with AI—what a “generative AI” KKR would be doing Think about Rocket Mortgage, with thousands of mortgage brokers and 2022 net revenues of $5.8

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2019

But generally in software and Internet, we’re all copying someone else. You are rarely the first ever in your category, even if you are remaking it. And then they were able to produce a report, that we could redact, with their summary learnings. That worked. In that case. So share most things.

Technical Review 120

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Neil Patel

MAY 24, 2021

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) officially recognizes three types of TLDs. Some of the generic top-level domains in this category include: com.co.org.net.xyz.biz.info. In this category, you’ll find domain extensions for: gov.edu.mil.int.coop.museum.jobs.post.travel. The Different Types of Top-Level Domains.

Government 137

Government Technical Review Software Review Branding 137

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If R&D is so critical to a company’s success, why then do R&D budgets lack the same discipline of other spend categories? Many companies have good reasons not to conform to R&D benchmarks, especially if they’re creating new categories or building at the forefront of a new technology like generative AI.

Underperforming Technical Team 125

Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 125

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Baidu is an internet and AI company offering a range of services, including search, cloud computing, music, maps, translation, video, and even self-driving cars. Additionally, due to strict internet censorship in China, aka the Great Firewall of China , many of the below tactics are requirements rather than suggestions. What Is Baidu?

AI Search 103

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2018

Our mission from the start has been to make internet business personal. Our mission from the start has been to make internet business personal, and we felt that this messenger medium was substantially more personal than the alternatives like email and legacy live chat. While these companies built for consumers, we built for businesses.

Artificial Intelligence 224

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The point is, you can also search your own product’s name or product category and see what keywords the top ranked results share. Ask yourself, what category does your product fall under? That’s why you should include as many of your category names in the name of your product whenever possible. Don’t be Ambiguous.

Social Media 84

Social Media Systems Review Technical Review Branding 84

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2018

For example, our use of color in this redesign – one for each category – allows our personality to shine through in a way that our old blog didn’t. So we set about reorganizing our content into categories that speak more clearly to your interests and where you expect to find content. Explorations of the color palette.

Sales Hiring 162

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Casey Accidental

APRIL 19, 2021

Now, the internet is confused over how many types of conflicts there are. If your main goal is to grow the category and make people want its value prop in general, obsessing over competition isn’t very helpful. I have seen quite a few startups emphatically compete before they are even sure the category will be successful.

Payment Methods 110

Payment Methods Technical Review Payment Services Venture Capital 110

Scytale

JANUARY 9, 2024

Even when searching the internet for answers, understanding the technical jargon in the information security industry can be challenging. To simplify, a SOC 2 Type II report demonstrates how effectively your business has implemented SOC 2 security controls across the five Trust Services Categories (TSC) laid out by the AICPA.

compliance 52

compliance Software Review Systems Review Technical Review 52

yoursales

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The EF SET is available to any Internet user for free. Here are the countries in the Very High Proficiency category: Countries in the 2022 EF EPI’s Very High Proficiency category. We only recommend considering English as a selling language in MOST the top 10 of the Very High Proficiency category*. *

B2B 90

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It has been trained using internet data to develop text that actually sounds like it was written by a human, based on only a small amount of input from the user. GPT-3 learned to spot patterns in human language by consuming a huge amount of information from the internet. Does anything else fall into this category?

AI Search 81

AI Search Technical Review Technical Advisors AI 81

Tom Tunguz

JULY 3, 2017

Amazon’s consumer value proposition is simple: the most selection at the best prices delivered fastest to all internet consumers in the US. The advantages of an online only store and the shipping focused operation system enabled the company to launch additional categories quickly. This can be best answered by relative pricing.

Strategy 203

Strategy Startup Operational efficiency. Pricing 203

BetterCloud

JUNE 22, 2022

Today, we’re back to announce that G2 has named us a Leader in the same categories in its Summer 2022 Grid reports. Most notably, BetterCloud maintained its position as the Leader in G2’s SaaS Operations Management category for the fourth quarter in a row. It’s also what’s most striking about the latest edition of G2’s Grid Reports.

Management 52

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TrackStreet

JULY 20, 2023

Second, the staggering amount of online consumers is bringing more retailers to the internet every day, fueling fierce competition in every product category. That means monitoring the internet at all times for unauthorized listings of their products, and aggressively pursuing the sellers when you find them.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Sales Advertising Branding 52

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

Across many different problems, subscription software sold over the internet seemed to produce dominant tech companies left and right. These companies have largely under-performed their B2B counterparts, and I’ll use this post to explain why and how to produce superior returns in this category. Why is B2B Subscription So Good?

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payments Subscription Payment Features 98

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Based on whether you are pursuing a global or local network effect, you can usually either constrain the audience by category or geography to start: Grubhub started in one neighborhood in Chicago, for example. Geography or category is the dominant mode for this in marketplaces. Amazon started with just books.

Product Marketing 131

Product Marketing Marketing Scale Software Review 131

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. The internet brought the marginal cost of distribution to 0. the internet) that contain a lot of code, which makes them particularly good at responding to coding-related queries.

Artificial Intelligence 142

Artificial Intelligence AI Scale ChatGPT 142

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Some have amazing traction, but every company that has traction is in a category like selling to developers or consumers, or maybe selling to small law firms. Right now, it’s a little bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything and everybody’s super excited. There are different categories.

AI 107

AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 107

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Most modern-day accounting software is cloud-based, making it easily accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. Every option on this list falls under this category. With their online solution, you can easily access your account anywhere globally with an internet connection. Database accounting software.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payment Services 145

Neil Patel

MAY 7, 2021

Today, the internet has supercharged the idea of social proof. For most people using WooCommerce (who seem to be the main people affected by this), you’ll find the warning isn’t actually for product pages, it’s for category pages. Instead, they’re normally on archived products and category pages. It is worth fixing, though.

Software Review 137

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 22, 2024

Modern solopreneurs commonly run their businesses, at least in some part, through the Internet. If your solopreneur venture falls within one of these categories, consider Twitter a worthy text-first social platform. A solopreneur is any business driven exclusively by one person.

Social Media 93

Social Media Scale Growth Hacking Headcount 93

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

Where Pam once had to fight to implement help docs, there are now more than 30 categories on Gartner’s 2019 Hype Cycle for Customer Service and Support – what the research firm identifies as the most critical technologies for supporting customers. I want to think about altruistic proactive outreach.

Outsourcing Services 253

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Internet software design patterns is one such area. Like all new technologies, where the early years see wild divergence in design patterns and then extreme convergence, the fundamentals of how internet software is designed hasn’t changed much since that convergence happened about 10 years ago. Some things don’t need judgment.

Underperforming Technical Team 291

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The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

The reason is that in most categories online shopping has become ultra-transparent (something which I’m not completely innocent of ;-) ) and that there’s a group of highly price-sensitive customers which always goes for the lowest price. But creating and launching a SaaS product has without a doubt become much cheaper in the last ten years.

Scale 192

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And, of course, there’s a nearly decade-long gap between then and now, so we also faced the unique challenge of figuring out how to update that old program for today’s Internet. ” We also included guidance on our audience categories and the anticipated timeline for working with us.

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