Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2022

I observe a few trends. 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. Hiring stopped.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Base10 is interested in mega-trends that change how people live and work in the next ten years. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation. Thinking back through Cloud and mobile, what can you learn from them?

Generative AI 250

Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 250

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 238

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

I spend a lot of time researching software trends in vertical software, compliance, and AI. We know the incredible power of technology and venture to create remarkable wealth and adding purpose to the cap table of today’s most innovative businesses can help fund the education of the next generation of great founders.

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Payrix

MARCH 13, 2024

No matter your industry, keeping up with the latest technology and payments trends is essential for any software company looking to stay competitive and keep their customers satisfied. 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

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

What are the main customer onboarding trends to watch out for in 2023? Should you follow customer onboarding trends? With that being said, some trends may simply not be relevant to your use case, so don’t try to implement them just because everybody else is. Fasten your seatbelts and let’s get right to it!

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Onboarding SaaS Payments Trends Payment Methods 79

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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. 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.

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AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Innovation 176

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 252

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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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. This trend makes a great investment thesis: find all the advances in consumer technologies and bring them into the enterprise. Today, it’s very much the opposite.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. The important thing here is the trend: is your operating leverage moving in the right direction quarter over quarter? So this raises the question: what now? What should founders aim for in 2024?

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Technical Review Innovation Cloud Trends 105

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

If you haven’t read it yet, head on over to Part 1 of Ask Me Anything with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin to learn about sales in SaaS, how to create great SDRs and AEs, developing an impactful content strategy, and potential SaaS trends for the next 12-18 months. It was mobile 6-7 years ago. There’s usually a reason for it.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Banking Enterprise 240

FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

As your global ecommerce partner, we make it our mission to stay on top of the latest trends. Want to learn more about the five ecommerce payment trends shaping 2020? With more consumers choosing to conduct their shopping directly from their mobile devices, mobile isn’t a channel your business can afford to ignore.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 85

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. Meaningful innovation will be required to shift customers once more. The chart above shows the early-stage investment dollars by buyer within the organization.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. But then mobile was the next obvious thing.

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Development Technical Review AI AWS 96

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The last 20 years witnessed the transformational effects of the internet, which spawned many innovative and culture-shifting businesses. The way you build a team—one that’s adaptable to trends and changes—will become a huge differentiator for your company. UpWork has over 350 freelance developers enhancing its core mobile and web apps.

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Scaling Artificial Intelligence Company Culture Innovation 196

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As with many of the habits and trends we’ve seen so far in S.H.O.P., And for an industry as fast-moving and innovative as ecommerce, 10 years can feel like a lifetime. And now we’re in this landscape where credit and mobile transactions are the norm. Enter the innovative ecommerce platforms and payment tools of the mid-2000s.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Scale 239

User Pilot

MAY 22, 2024

UIzard is an innovative design tool that enhances wireframing and prototyping with AI-powered features for accessibility and efficiency. Measuring user behavior data to identify patterns and trends : Userpilot lets you analyze user behavior data using funnel, path, retention, trend , and heat map analyses. A Mixpanel report.

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User Experience Interviewing AI Search Software Review 94

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2014

These are the six key themes/trends I noted. Google announced the Open Automobile Alliance to enable more innovation within the car. There’s rapid innovation in the powertrain and the software/electronics of the car. The mobile phone with camera sits next to a 21x optical zoom camera/phone.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 97

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And the reason I say that is I think there are a couple of real important macro trends that need to be considered versus the pace of innovation. My team and myself are often on the road, about every other week, so anything that can be accomplished very quickly via mobile, like an approval, is a huge time saving for everyone.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Trends 139

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’ve just made your first $100 or crossed the $100,000 mark, monetization is an ever-evolving part of your journey as a creator, thanks to platforms constantly innovating new ways to pay – and TikTok is no exception. However, remember that most users browse TikTok on mobile devices in a vertical orientation.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 106

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 19, 2024

These challenges paved the way for innovative solutions like SaaS to redefine the marketplace landscape. With the proliferation of internet access and mobile devices, consumers increasingly turned to online marketplaces for convenience, variety, and competitive pricing.

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Marketplace as a Service SaaS Payments Payment Services Artificial Intelligence 40

User Pilot

MAY 17, 2024

Looking for the best no-code SaaS tools to build innovative solutions and improve your product management workflows? Pendo – the best no-code onboarding platform for mobile apps. Best SaaS no-code tools for app development No-code app development tools allow you to create web or mobile applications easily.

SaaS Payments 89

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 89

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.

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Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

Stax

MARCH 4, 2024

To stay ahead of fraud means merchants must understand the threats, use trusted and secure providers, and keep up to date on payment security trends. Outside of standard card transactions, mobile wallets are gaining popularity, with 3.4 In 2023, the cost of fraud to online businesses was $48 billion globally, according to Mastercard.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Features 88

Stax

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That’s why businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to streamline operations and enhance customer experiences. We can see this trend in action in the realm of payment processing with the advent of recurring payments, also known as automatic payments. Industry data shows that subscription-based businesses are growing 3.7x

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Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Methods 88

Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The company will use this new investment to drive product innovation and accelerate hiring in its London and Toronto offices. Trint will focus its 2021 strategy on rapid product innovation as it continues to build out a new market category it calls StoryTech. The company also landed a top 10 spot in Startups.co.uk

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Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

Consumers are increasingly gravitating towards quick and convenient payment methods such as contactless payments and mobile wallets when transacting with businesses. Trends in B2B Payments Like most aspects of life in the 21st century, the landscape of B2B payments is undergoing significant transformation fueled by digital innovation.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments 88

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book.

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Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 352

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2024

Data visualization, for example in a dashboard, aids in its interpretation and trend tracking. By analyzing behavior trends among churned users , you can identify aspects of the product experience that lead to increased user drop-offs. Pendo: Best for mobile data analytics Pendo used to be known for its state-of-the-art analytics.

Data 84

Data Data Analysis SaaS Software Review 84

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. Rise of mobile. There is a great responsibility to ensure it trends towards the former, not the latter. Big tech takes over. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 25, 2024

To neatly organize your business in this industry, you need to incorporate innovative solutions with Software as a Service (SaaS) leading the way. Mobile Accessibility Let’s admit that today we can hardly picture someone who does not prefer purchasing on the go. By 2030, the logistics market is projected to be worth USD 18.23

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Business SaaS Generative AI Transportation 52

Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Perhaps it’s to learn about new innovations and technologies, perhaps to find new business opportunities, and network with industry experts. A few key factors include: The purpose of the event: Be sure to confirm what you’re hoping to get out of the event. Perhaps it’s solely for educational purposes to upskill your team.

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Startup compliance Cybersecurity Healthcare 52

Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Perhaps it’s to learn about new innovations and technologies, perhaps to find new business opportunities, and network with industry experts. A few key factors include: The purpose of the event: Be sure to confirm what you’re hoping to get out of the event. Perhaps it’s solely for educational purposes to upskill your team.

Startup 52

Startup compliance Cybersecurity Healthcare 52

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

” Or five years ago, “I invest in mobile.” ” Just as those trends have become ubiquitous to be implicit, so will machine learning. Founders will look to apply the innovation of a distributed and decentralized-trust database in different parts of the ecosystem.

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SaaS Payments Scale Blockchain Machine Learning 198