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Etsy goes cloud native to better scale to seasonal demands

IT World

Popular online marketplace Etsy recently completed a two-year migration from 2,000 on-premises servers to Google Cloud. Etsy was founded in 2005, well into the internet era but long before the explosion of public cloud services. Etsy was founded in 2005, well into the internet era but long before the explosion of public cloud services.

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The Global Garage: How Online Auto Auctions Are Expanding International Car Markets

How To Buy Saas

These platforms eliminate the requirement for physical presence at traditional auction houses by offering a virtual marketplace where buyers and sellers can interact. Accurate car descriptions, open lines of communication, and helpful customer service can all help achieve this.

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal. Nail it Before You Scale it . Cloud Marketplaces. Data and machine learning infrastructure accelerates to new heights. Cloud mutiples are going up. Product-led Growth.

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SaaS Funding Napkin, the 2017 edition

The Angel VC

So if you want to raise capital for your SaaS startup in 2017, investors will wonder if you can become a true system of record, build a real platform/ecosystem/marketplace or build a unique data asset over time. For what it's worth, I know AI and Machine Learning are a hyped topic but I think the hype is justified.

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A Technology Innovation Leading to a Go-To-Market Advantage

Tom Tunguz

RelateIQ machine learning to offer an innovative customer relationship management software to sales teams. Zendesk, Duo Security and Expensify develop customer service, two-factor authentication and expense management software with radically simpler UIs than their competition.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Companies in almost every sector are looking to take advantage of machine learning and integrate it into their products. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers.

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The most exciting Latin American SaaS Startups

SaaStock

Metatext offers a solution to help SaaS entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as customer services, marketing and insights. Elevator pitch : NEO MED is a marketplace aiming to simplify the relationship between Clinics, Laboratories and Hospitals that need medical reports and the to physicians writing these reports.

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