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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Jessie moved to Hong Kong in 2015, where she joined Credit Suisse as Vice President. Jessica Liu studied Business Administration in Hong Kong and within two years of working at HSBC, she became Vice President.

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Kellblog 2021 Predictions

Kellblog

In an era where we (vendors) increasingly run our own software, running it is increasingly as important as building it. DB-Engines ranking shows approximately the same number of DBMSs today (335) as one year ago (334). 2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy.

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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. Because there was commercially available software that did the same thing, more or less. “It Holst-Knudsen says this experience has taught him a critical lesson.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. Here are the top 16 things we learned. AI today 1.

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70+ Experts Reveal the Best Customer Retention Strategies During COVID-19

SmartKarrot

Jason Parks, President and CEO, The Media Captain. In this mix, it is necessary to find efficient ways to sustain your business. According to Marketing Metrics , the rate of success while selling to an existing customer is close to 70%, while the same for a new prospect is 5-20%. Rand Fishkin, Co-founder and CEO, SparkToro.