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The Fastest Growing Sectors of Startup Fundraising in 2020

Tom Tunguz

But let me explain: music streaming includes companies empowering musicians to hold live digital events supplanting the coliseum experience with high definition video and audio at home. Quality Assurance is truly about the automation of certain parts of software testing.

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Trends in the Post-Modern Data Stack

Tom Tunguz

In the past, software engineering teams and data teams haven’t collaborated, but data pipelines & AI endpoints rapidly becoming essential parts of software, they now work together much more closely. AI is changing the structure of data teams. I’m grateful to the panelists for joining me to share their views.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out. And we’re excited to share that the SaaStr APAC Braindates platform is now open.

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Building a Product-Led Growth Machine: Office Hours with GC Lionetti

Tom Tunguz

On Wednesday, December 16th at 9:00 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti , the CMO of Confluent, which was founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® and pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. billion valuation for its recent $250 million Series E round.

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Thanks to Mercury, Rattle, Remote, Trustero, and Vention for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. At the 9th ever SaaStr Annual, ~200 of the best and hottest companies on earth will go BIG as partners/sponsors. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. Multi-cloud architectures.

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The FastSpring Team Meets Up for 2nd Annual Fall Summit

FastSpring

One of the ways we showcase our mission, vision, and values is our annual Fall Summit event. I am thrilled to work at a company that places such emphasis on bringing the whole team together from all over the world with these events. I’d also like to give a special shout-out to Team Eight for both of their victories during the event!