Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

For startups building LLM-based applications & infrastructure, this alters the calculus of selecting a cloud. Five years ago, many startups defaulted to AWS for the generous credits, broad catalog, & rapid pace of innovation. Most major cloud players have picked an LLM partner & perhaps will choose multiple.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI. If we project out and keep the pace of innovation, think about what will happen in the next five years.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Our leading customer communication platform is used by the most innovative companies worldwide, such as Unity, Spendesk, (add approved customer logos in here). Startup party: RSVP for our exclusive evening party to close the week on November 3rd in partnership with AWS and Aircall. Apply for a mentorship meeting here.

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AWS Scale Innovation Startup 198

SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Henry’s found that with SMBs and startups, they’re typically consuming content on social media, primarily LinkedIn, while Enterprise customers aren’t consuming that messaging on social media. By freeing up that space, you can start to ask your team where the innovation is.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

It brings together industry leaders, innovators, and customers to showcase the latest products and technologies. AWS re:Invent : AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual conference, focused on cloud computing and SaaS-related services.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Open Source is one of the most successful enablers of global innovation in history, and Linux has grown into the most important software platform in the world, dominating every market it enters. We’d rent a car, get on the road, and go to all kinds of startups and give talks on Apache Spark to build up a community around it.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. Sell To Customers How They Want To Be Sold To When Lenta first started building AWS in Australia, they were crude in how they thought about customers. Of course, we all know how that turned out.

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Scale Scaling AWS Sales Hiring 257

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Executive teams and boards are demanding innovation with LLMs and data. Software startups are rising to meet the need. The Pendulum Swings to Small Data : Modern Mac laptops have the same computational power as the AWS servers Snowflake used to launch the company. And so the decade of data continues.

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Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 228

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. Access to near-unlimited computational power and storage will define many of the key technology innovations in the next decade. Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’ve used the AWS IAM (identity access management) console, you realize how complex access control has become. Cloud is more expensive for larger enterprises. Many are considering moving back to their own infrastructure and using the cloud to manage bursts. The second is control. Technology integration will be harder.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than 80 different startups. And his answer, like many answers in startups, is it depends. What Matters Most When Raising In Early Rounds? How hot is the space, and what is the product category?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking to join SaaS founders and tech enthusiasts who are discussing the most innovative trends for SaaS companies? It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. This is why our customers – from small startups to massive, complex enterprises – put their trust in us. The foundation of our operational health is availability. Without rock solid availability, nothing else matters.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This is especially critical for startups and younger companies, who don’t have the resources of a large scaled marketing team. Previously, Amit led marketing efforts at startups like Tact AI (1st AI Assistant for Sales backed by AWS, Microsoft, and Salesforce), HP Inc (next-gen computing) and Spire AI (Human Capital SaaS).

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Metrics Revenue Scale Marketing 122

Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Contentful’s approach has seen huge adoption in the enterprise, including Fortune 500 companies, disruptive startups and top digital agencies. That enables organizations to more quickly and easily build innovative digital experiences for any channel.

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Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Innovative. Comfort and delight in a small, intense, high-growth startup environment. Experience as startup founder. Building web applications in a corporate or startup environment. Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Self motivated.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Scalability Startups and enterprises alike can scale their technology usage in alignment with their specific needs. Innovation Acceleration Technology providers are incentivized to offer superior services and optimize their offerings. With this model, customers pay only for what they use, optimizing cost efficiency.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Salesforce AppExchange). SaaS platforms can accommodate changes in user demand without requiring significant adjustments, making them ideal for startups. Innovate and provide tailored solutions that meet these needs, including flexible payment processing.

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

Our data centers are shut down, but as I was telling you earlier, AWS barely existed when we started our transformation. Took out millions of dollars and for every dollar we returned to the company, we got to keep 20 cents to do innovation work. Casey: And you guys still made it work. Peter: We did. Casey: Oh wow.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

Examples of IaaS Cloud Providers Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Provider (GCP) IBM Cloud Microsoft Azure PaaS Taking a step ahead from IaaS, let us introduce you to PaaS or Platform-as-a-support. While IaaS provides infrastructural support, PaaS, as its name suggests, provides cloud platform support to customers.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using LLMs to enhance these solutions will no longer be seen as innovative but will become the standard.” Smart startups will focus their messaging on the problems they solve, not how they do it.” So for SaaS startups, that means the fundraising market should get more-founder friendly.”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. That really stuck with me.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

From SaaS startups to Instagram celebrities, businesses and wannabes are searching for the magic moment that will propel them into the stratosphere. It has more to do with random luck and the whims of the zeitgeist than it does with visionary innovation. It seems like everyone wants to “go viral.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2025

OnRamp is hosting a CCO Happy Hour from 5-7 ahead of the CCO Summit on Wednesday The AI Frontier Scaling Agents & Driving Innovation in SMB and Enterprise side event from 6-8pm in Mountain View with Nebius, CEO of Otter.ai, VP AI at EvenUp, CEO HeyBoss AI, and more. CFOs and VPs of Finance with tickets are invited! Will be fun!

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

First of all, do we have any European SaaS startups here today? And there were no startup communities. No startup environment. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. So if you are a startup today what we spend nine months, twelve months initially, you could do that in like weeks today.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing becomes the standard way for startups to go public in 2020. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets. Most startups will be distributed (have several offices) before they reach 50 employees. Here are my 5 predictions for 2020. Distributed becomes the norm.

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