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Apple's AI Challenger Sale

Tom Tunguz

Apple is competing using the challenger sale : Apple is telling the market, to use AI, you should want private AI, you should want to control your own data because it’s valuable 1. These models are their intellectual property & a key competitive advantage. It’s already happening.

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Get EXCITED!! The First SaaStr.ai Summit is Sep 10-11 in SF Bay!!

SaaStr

So 40% of our content at SaaStr Europa was on AI this year, and probably 33% of SaaStr Annual last year. But it’s time for a full-fledged SaaStr AI Summit this year inside of SaaStr Annual. You can join us just for AI Summit or all of Annual. Just a few of the sessions coming: #1. ” #2. ” #2. ” #4.

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Marketplaces in the Age of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

While the marketplace business model is evergreen, every new platform changes how and where transactions happen. Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. Demand Side AI’s impact on buyers (the demand side) should be fairly consistent across marketplaces, and almost entirely positive.

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You’re Holding Your Business Back If You’re Not Automating These 5 Processes

SaaStr

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. Sage Intacct is a popular choice for automating bookkeeping because it includes features unique to the SaaS business model.

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7 Ways AI-Native Companies Can Improve Retention

Andreessen Horowitz

So what does this mean for the huge wave of new consumer AI companies, whose products are still early in their product cycles, often early in their implementation stages, and are evolving in real time? Here are the 7 most effective ways for AI-native consumer companies to improve their retention. In a word: yes.

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Why TestDome Considers FastSpring a Real Partner for Selling Software Online (Plus: Is Using AI Cheating?)

FastSpring

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. “We Selling internationally is key to their business model.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet.