TechEmpower SaaS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. To provide an accurate estimate, the firm should ask a multitude of questions.

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Software Development Development Software Review Software 443

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2015

See also: Innovator’s Solution for SaaS Startups. I believe we’re seeing Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma at play. I believe we’re seeing Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma at play. The Innovator’s Dilemma starts all over again, leading to a new cycle of innovation.

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Innovation Startup Scale SMB 185

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2017

Other startups prefer to combine a product innovation with a reinvention of the sales process. The four key innovations in SaaS sales strategies I’ve observed so far are: Bottoms-up. These don’t happen very often, but a shift from on-premises to SaaS, or PC to mobile suddenly changes customer acquisition costs.

Innovation 113

Innovation Scale Sales Hiring Sales 113

Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

It is no longer new that a vast proportion of internet users is fast migrating from the use of desktops to smartphones or mobile devices. What is Mobile CRM? . Mobile CRM can be described as a tool or software developed and designed to work on Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and other internet-enabled devices.

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Mobile Strategy Technical Review Artificial Intelligence 95

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. We see the first broadly successful tokens with dividends (likely outside the US).

AI Search 235

AI Search AI Scale Headcount 235

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

1 Venmo surged with social & mobile payments in the 2010s. The pace of innovation is hard to overstate. Very few people know whether today’s apps are built with, just as they don’t consider the construction materials of their office building. Which database did PayPal use to enable internet payments? Nobody knows.

Blockchain 185

Blockchain Payment Solutions Payment Methods Mobile Payments 185

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2022

Recently, EVMOS , a web3 project, pushed forward an important innovation for the web3 ecosystem. The EVMOS token model innovates on its predecessors by introducing the App Store dynamics to web3. The EVMOS token model may be one of the most influential innovations in web3 developer relations in a long time.

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Entertainment Government Innovation Banking 245

Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer. the company would prefer to rely on external experts to drive innovation within the models. the company would prefer to rely on external experts to drive innovation within the models. the product lead would like to minimize career risk by choosing a well-known player.

Artificial Intelligence 210

Artificial Intelligence AI Machine Learning Scale 210

Payrix

MARCH 13, 2024

But with so much innovation and movement happening, it can be difficult to know where to focus resources and more importantly, if these trends actually matter to your merchants. Let’s take a closer look at the top payment innovations that software companies should consider this year. For software companies that get it right?

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Merchant Services Payments Embedded Payments Payment Solutions 100

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Past channels have included web-based software, open-source, mobile app stores & product-led growth. Combined with a market whose cost of capital has surged with the Fed Funds rate, these trends will demand teams innovate to create more efficient customer acquisition channels. It’s unclear what that could be. Hiring stopped.

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Sales Hiring Sales Startup Acquisition 310

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2014

For consumer products, the power of mobile distribution is hard to overstate. Facebook serves more than 1B mobile users each month. But the distribution advantages of mobile app stores hasn’t been observed as powerfully in SaaS or enterprise software for driving revenue.

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Mobile SaaS Enterprise Startup 100

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.

Merchant Services 228

Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 228

The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2013

Following my posts about electronic signing and vertical SaaS , here's another area that we're very interested in: SaaS solutions with a mobile-first approach While my first two posts of this series were fairly specific, this one is pretty fuzzy as I don't have a good sense for what I'm looking for.

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Mobile Investment SaaS Construction 117

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mobile, cloud, social - startups led each of those waves. It will require a GTM innovation - a new way of acquiring customers to vie with the incumbents. Teams will summarize meetings, create chapters in those meetings, extract tasks, translate in real time, & develop templates for future meetings.

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AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Innovation 185

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The typical mobile phone’s home screen is occupied by more than 30 applications. A digital tragedy of the commons, each additional mobile application a user downloads decreases the odds of an average application re-engaging a user. The mobile cost-per-install market is measured in the billions.

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Advertising Mobile Travel Application Development 100

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2022

“How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij” A great session from GitLab’s CEO and founder on how to really use community to build and scale. #2. Here’s what folks most watched in 2022 : Here were the Top 10: #1.

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Scale SMB Innovation B2B 193

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2022

Mark Ghermezian, the co-founder of Braze, takes us through his journey of reinventing a category and building Braze from an idea into a dominant player in the mobile lifecycle marketing space. As we were pioneering a new platform in the mobile ecosystem, it was vital for us to listen to our customers. Listen to your customers.

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Outsourced Development Mobile Pricing Software Development 223

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I then proceeded to explain that consumer companies tend to arrive in droves during platform shifts, and we haven’t had one since mobile. What I realized having gone through the internet and mobile platform shifts is that the technological and distribution shifts did not happen at the same time. It’s not really replicable.”

AI Search 66

AI Search AI ChatGPT Scale 66

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

37 years later, Real Green is the innovative leader in software for the industry. Real Green’s journey to embedded payments is also rooted in innovation. Bill pay was an important part of Real Green’s passion for innovation.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Features Merchant Services 130

ReSci

JUNE 13, 2019

Introducing our Attentive integration We are excited to announce our integration with Attentive, a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative e-commerce and retail brands. The post Attentive partners with ReSci – Personalized mobile messaging appeared first on ReSci.

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Mobile Innovation Branding Engagement 47

Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Great companies transform a technology innovation into a go-to-market advantage. In the last five major cycles (internet, social, mobile, cloud, web3), startups seized the new technologies of the era to create a distribution advantage.

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AI Search AI Scale Cloud 182

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The first mobile phones were purchased by corporations and given to employees. Most of the innovation flowed from the enterprise into the home. I think this force will be the major driver of innovation for enterprise software for the next while. Thirty years ago, most people used computers at work but not at home.

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Innovation Enterprise Mobile Trends 100

Stax

JANUARY 5, 2024

They can also take contactless payments from mobile wallets. Mobile card readers These are portable devices that connect to smartphones or tablets. Wireless terminals Wireless terminals are similar to mobile card readers in that these terminals offer mobility.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We’ve written and talked a lot about China as a laboratory for software-based innovation … especially given it leapfrogged the PC era directly to mobile. Below, we share 8 of our most interesting, under-the-radar pieces on China, featuring both a16z …

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Innovation Mobile Software 53

IT World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

But dig a little more deeply into the survey results and you'll find the biggest innovation across the industry in the last couple of years (other than the move to Apple Silicon) involves improvements in customer services, specifically in call centers. It also shows that some of Apple’s larger PC manufacturing competitors are gaining ground.

Mobile 72

Mobile Innovation Data 72

SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2019

Leyla Seka is the executive vice president of the Salesforce Mobile platform experience. In Leyla’s role today, she leads the charge on extending the power of Salesforce with a full portfolio of mobile apps, and is responsible for driving product, go-to-market and other key programs around Salesforce’s mobile offerings.

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Scale VP of Engineering Mobile Scaling 131

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 19, 2024

And then that has led ultimately to mobile interfaces with touch as an input mechanism. . “In parallel, we’ve had this other lineage in computing, which is interfaces. And you started with the command line and keyboards. And then that gave way to the GUI with a mouse. The question is: Where are we going next?

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Artificial Intelligence AI Mobile Innovation 105

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These UI design examples are a testament to the power of innovative web design in enhancing user engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction. Conclusion As showcased by the 15 UI design examples, a harmonious blend of aesthetics, functionality, and user-centricity makes a design stand out.

Mobile 52

Mobile Business SaaS User Experience 52

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2024

Sessions will cover pivotal topics such as GenAI, cross-media adaptations, and addressing the complexities of layoffs in an industry now deeply ingrained in mainstream culture, we’ll uncover how innovation, creativity, resilience, and collaboration are shaping the future of gaming. Where to Get Tickets Still need tickets?

Merchant Services 105

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Facilitation 105

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Despite bringing innovations, the industry of that time faced tremendous upfront costs and restricted accessibility. Moreover, there were slower innovation cycles compared to the cloud-based SaaS model that we know now, thanks to the advent of smart neural networks. Mobile-friendly design.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence AI Trends Machine Learning 52

Backlinkfy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Others operate through a mobile workspace. Intranets are ideal for enhancing a mobile workspace. An intranet allows the mobile workforce to continue collaborating on projects with their coworkers in the most effective way possible, which increases productivity. How Can Intranets Enhance the Productivity of a Mobile Workforce?

Mobile 40

Mobile Payment Solutions Payment Methods Business 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Bessemer Venture Partners Byron Deeter, Mary D’Onofrio, and Elliott Robinson share a state of the cloud economy, tactical lessons and case studies for early-stage founders, private market analysis, alongside key predictions and trends driving innovation in SaaS around the globe. Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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Cloud Mobile Innovation Metrics 235

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. So this raises the question: what now? What should founders aim for in 2024? This is the year for growth-stage companies to become Great.

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Technical Review Innovation Cloud Trends 110

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

If you spend much time in the startup and tech ecosystem, you’ve probably heard the term “disruptive innovation” more times than you can count. But not all companies that are commonly known as disrupters actually fit the traditional definition of disruptive innovation. Innovations are mischaracterized as disruptive. 3D Printing.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2019

The rise of mobile + cloud + APIs allowed a lot of these unicorns to remake categories. Still, it does suggest most innovation comes where money is already flowing. But in any event, it does show you that most of us are remaking existing, large categories of software. Things change. Communications, security, and infrastructure.

Software 236

Software SaaS Mobile Innovation 236

Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Technology innovations swing to a pendulum’s cadence. Sometimes innovations begin with infrastructure changes and reverberate up the stack. Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. We’re in a period of punctuated equilibrium.

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DevOps as a Service Blockchain Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 222

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Question #2: How Do You Fix GTM The high-level advice for founders trying to approach Go To Market differently is… Don’t worry too much about innovation in sales and marketing. It was mobile 6-7 years ago. They’ll know the risks they’re taking. Don’t look for magic bullets that aren’t there. There’s usually a reason for it.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Banking AI 222