Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2014

Advertising-driven models, SaaS business models, consumer hardware and marketplaces are all represented in the earnings figures so far. But Amazon’s massive EPS miss has more to do with large scale capital investment in AWS than a lack of a profitable business or customer base.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

You’d think with 600 million devices running ad blockers —advertising would be less effective. percent of search advertising, roughly $40.3 Advertisers couldn’t afford to continue spending that much money on ads if they didn’t work. Advertising can’t save awful products.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. How the hell does that happen? As a result, Buildium took many chances on up and coming talent—myself included.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. This wasn’t the case.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

advertising). Claire argues that the real potential of the internet is the creation of entirely new businesses. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. The simple LTV formula.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

advertising). Claire argues that the real potential of the internet is the creation of entirely new businesses. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. The simple LTV formula.

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