Entrepreneur - SaaS

APRIL 21, 2017

How hiring our first salesperson led me to recognize that cluelessness is at the heart of entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurship 111

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2017

At SaaStr earlier this year, I spoke about the huge potential of machine learning in SaaS. In that talk, I broke down some of the advances in ML that might be useful for software companies. In the discussion that ensued, I stressed the importance of not letting the technology obfuscate the value proposition of the software. Yes, ML is a huge step forward, but it’s not enough by itself.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Interviewing Software Improvement 100

CloseSaaS

APRIL 19, 2017

“One difference between the Top 10% and the Top 1% is the very top are extremely efficient with their time.” — Jason Lemkin, SaaStr Ever struggle to turn inspiration into action?

Sales 52

Sales 52

Network World

APRIL 20, 2017

Microsoft is offering IT pros some new guidance on when they can expect major feature updates for Windows 10, Office 365's client applications, and System Center Configuration Manager. Office and Windows are slated to receive two major patches per year, one in March and the other in September. SCCM will be updated in time with those releases to facilitate deployments.

Systems Review 40

Systems Review Management 40

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Outsourced Development

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2017

After a startup establishes product market fit, scaling demand generation becomes the the next major challenge. Doubling or tripling ARR each year for several consecutive years is not easy. The best marketers create a demand generation portfolio. There are four axes to measure this portfolio: scale of investment, sophistication, breadth and potential.

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Scale Social Media Acquisition Engineering 100

CloseSaaS

APRIL 17, 2017

Spring has arrived, and so has a list of new features and improvements to Close.

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Network World

APRIL 20, 2017

Microsoft is offering IT pros some new guidance on when they can expect major feature updates for Windows 10, Office 365's client applications, and System Center Configuration Manager. Office and Windows are slated to receive two major patches per year, one in March and the other in September. SCCM will be updated in time with those releases to facilitate deployments.

Systems Review 40

Systems Review Management 40

Network World

APRIL 19, 2017

Oracle's online advertising analytics platform will soon know even more about what you are watching, where and when: The company has agreed to buy Moat, which aims to track how much attention consumers are paying to online media. Moat's platform tracks browsing and viewing habits on desktop and mobile devices, and even connected TVs. It touts its ability to separate out non-human traffic so advertisers don't pay for clicks from bots, and to quantify the audibility and visibility of ads.

Cloud 40

Cloud Data Advertising Mobile 40

Network World

APRIL 19, 2017

SnapLogic wants to make it easier for users of its enterprise software integration platform to connect components of their business systems. The company has unveiled a new feature that uses machine learning to suggest what users may want to do. The idea behind the new feature, announced this week, is to make it easier to connect and move data between enterprise software systems.

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Enterprise Software Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 40

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

Data

Network World

APRIL 19, 2017

Oracle's online advertising analytics platform will soon know even more about what you are watching, where and when: The company has agreed to buy Moat, which aims to track how much attention consumers are paying to online media. Moat's platform tracks browsing and viewing habits on desktop and mobile devices, and even connected TVs. It touts its ability to separate out non-human traffic so advertisers don't pay for clicks from bots, and to quantify the audibility and visibility of ads.

Cloud 40

Cloud Data Advertising Mobile 40

Network World

APRIL 19, 2017

SnapLogic wants to make it easier for users of its enterprise software integration platform to connect components of their business systems. The company has unveiled a new feature that uses machine learning to suggest what users may want to do. The idea behind the new feature, announced this week, is to make it easier to connect and move data between enterprise software systems.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Software Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 40

Network World

APRIL 18, 2017

As if getting venture funding themselves isn't exciting enough for open source-oriented startups, seeing an open source-focused company like Deis get snapped up by Microsof t must be a thrill as well. While it would be more thrilling, perhaps, if Microsoft disclosed how much it paid, I'm sure those in the startup world and their backers have ways of finding out that information.

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Acquisition Startup 40

Network World

APRIL 18, 2017

Serial space tourist Charles Simonyi is going back again -- to his former employer, Microsoft. When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. During his absence from Microsoft, Simonyi also found time to fly to the International Space Station -- twice.

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Software 40

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Network World

APRIL 18, 2017

As if getting venture funding themselves isn't exciting enough for open source-oriented startups, seeing an open source-focused company like Deis get snapped up by Microsof t must be a thrill as well. While it would be more thrilling, perhaps, if Microsoft disclosed how much it paid, I'm sure those in the startup world and their backers have ways of finding out that information.

Acquisition 40

Acquisition Startup 40

Network World

APRIL 18, 2017

Serial space tourist Charles Simonyi is going back again -- to his former employer, Microsoft. When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. During his absence from Microsoft, Simonyi also found time to fly to the International Space Station -- twice.

Software 40

Software 40

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 20, 2017

A founder asked me recently if a dead zone in ACVs (average contract value) exist around the $10k price point. Yesterday, I listened to a podcast in which an executive asserted that infrastructure software priced lower than $250k in ACV threatens the viability of the company. What does the data show? I’ve plotted the distribution of ACV at IPO for all public software companies.

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