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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Come and hear about the typical pitfalls (and how to avoid them) from Pat Poels, an executive with over seven years under his belt leading Eventbrite’s now 300+ strong engineering team that sits across North America, South America, and Europe. I’ve been with the company since 2011. Want to see more content like this?

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Also, there is less pressure on Sales. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Move Over Subscriptions. The Future Is Elastic And Built Around Relationships.

Chargify

It’s likely that you have seen one of Martech’s Marketing Technology Landscape diagrams illustrating the rapid growth from ~150 players in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017: Increased competition and saturated markets have eroded differentiation and perceived-value between products. Salesforce is another great B2B example. Change Is Inevitable.

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Christmas in July! Create Smarter Ecomm Landing Pages for the Holidays

Unbounce

Cyber Monday 2018 represents the biggest ecomm sales day in history, and 2019 is projected to be even bigger. Due to heavy discounting, your sales might not even be profitable, even if you generate an above-average volume of sales. You’re running a holiday sale, eh? billion on Cyber Monday. Heck, they spent $2.2

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MongoDB’s Playbook for Breaking Into and Dominating a Market

OpenView Labs

When Francesca joined MongoDB in 2011, the company was going through what she describes as an incredibly hectic and exciting phase of hyper growth. The scale of the company and the size of the problem you were trying to solve kept changing dramatically.”. Building a developer community from scratch. It was our super power.”. “I