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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

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I’d always done general software things – database software, mainframes, PeopleSoft, Salesforce.com platform for everybody.” ” Spotting Early Trends : “If you take this ability to not follow the herd and the experience, you can spot trends. ‘Look, here’s enterprise software. .”

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Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and Atlassian All Raise Prices Again in 2025. Hooray.

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The major SaaS providers have announced another round of significant price increases for 2025, continuing a trend that’s putting pressure on enterprise software budgets across the board. "AI & SaaS: Will MCP Replace Your Apps?

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Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now The Return of the Point Solution Different type of post this week. Just look at Claude Code - they only went GA a couple months ago!

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Top 10 VWO Competitors and Alternatives This Year 

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Our intuitive dashboards make visualizing and analyzing all user behavior data easy, helping you spot trends and patterns effortlessly. Use cases Heap is good for seeing user engagement trends and where users drop off. Both are good but serve different purposes in software development and marketing.

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How to Conduct a Root Cause Analysis in SaaS: Step-by-Step Process

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software development) to identify causal factors of a specific problem. Then look for user activity trends across multiple user segments to find a correlation. In the case of a high churn problem, for instance, it could look like this: Creating a fishbone for high churn.

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How LLMs Are Trained: From Raw Data to SaaS Disruption

How To Buy Saas

The trend is that each year, training efficiency improves (through techniques like mixed precision training, better optimizers, smarter learning rate schedules, etc.), In SaaS BI tools, its becoming a trend to have an Ask the data feature powered by an LLM. and hardware also gets faster per dollar.

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Did Windsurf Sell Too Cheap? The Wild 72-Hour Saga and AI Coding Valuations

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This isn’t just about productivity tools—it’s about controlling the future of software development. This represents a fundamental shift from traditional programming to conversational development. The growth rates are “venture capital fever dream numbers” that go beyond typical B2B metrics.

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