SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

It provides insights into the latest trends, best practices, and networking opportunities in the SaaS space. 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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ChatGPT AWS SaaS CTO 189

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Coming out of that, every company from the largest enterprise to the smallest startup started thinking very critically about cost optimizations. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Budget Flush Coming? First - what is a budget flush?

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Cloud Cost optimization & reporting GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Review 167

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Consumption Trends We’re now through earning season. Is there any incremental signal on consumption trends reversing? Follow along to stay up to date! Will we see re-acceleration soon? Will we see re-acceleration soon?

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Trends Cloud Azure AWS 130

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. Base10 is interested in mega-trends that change how people live and work in the next ten years.

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Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 299

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2014

Startups benefit from a booming public market for three reasons. As a consequence of higher stock prices, stock increases in value and cash becomes easier to raise and relatively less expensive, both of which entice tech publics to acquire startups, extending the current vibrant M&A market.

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Startup Trends AWS Marketing 100

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. It’s pretty well understood that consumption trends will bottom and reverse prior to seat based purchasing. AWS had a FASCINATING report.

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Cloud Azure AWS AI Search 130

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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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 158

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. Is Software Rebounding?

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Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2015

SaaS startups are either competing within these categories or creating a new category. But if SaaS usage trends follow consumer usage - which for some ecommerce and messaging products top 70%+ mobile usage - then mobile will undoubtedly become a critical user engagement and acquisition platform.

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Sales Recruiting Data SaaS AWS 100

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. Presuming the trend continues, and computational power becomes free, or near free, what new technologies are enabled by it? Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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Innovation Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Scale 100

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years. They should be able to speak to competitors’ products and broader trends in the space. There’s more competition and more choices for software buyers.

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Software Review AWS Social Media Artificial Intelligence 162

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 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. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 113

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The majority of COGS (revenue less COGS = gross profit) fall in hosting costs (ie AWS), and some customer support. Startups and younger companies don’t have this luxury. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Sales Hiring AI Headcount 130

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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Development Technical Review AWS AI 109

Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise, by the end of this article, you’ll have enough information to select the best platform for your business. Our intuitive dashboards make visualizing and analyzing all user behavior data easy, helping you spot trends and patterns effortlessly. Book a Demo 2.

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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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Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2013

I never can predict with much accuracy which content will resonate with readers who tend to be startup founders and employees. And “Your Startup’s 10 Most Important Metrics” is example of a very tactical post that readers enjoyed. Looking back through the first year or so of my blog titles, I can see now they were awful.

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Social Media AWS Construction Metrics 100

Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

Further reading: How to Prepare Your Startup for Acquisition. It might be awful. It’s tempting to rush into your next startup when you miss the feeling of running a company. Related posts: How to Prepare Your Startup for Acquisition. What do investors look for in a SaaS startup? You’re hot stuff.

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Startup Acquisition SaaS Scale 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

Further reading: How to Prepare Your Startup for Acquisition. It might be awful. It’s tempting to rush into your next startup when you miss the feeling of running a company. Related posts: How to Prepare Your Startup for Acquisition. What do investors look for in a SaaS startup? You’re hot stuff.

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Startup Acquisition SaaS Scale 52

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

You can export data in bulk or drill down into specific segments to understand user journeys and identify trends. Trends and funnels: These features help you analyze key events like feature usage or completion rates. Its hosted in AWS and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. Analytics dashboard in Userpilot. Zendesk pricing.

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Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Despite disparities in reporting, self-reported data on CAC payback does reveal a clear trend: The fastest growing SaaS companies report a median CAC payback period of only 8 months. AWS and other infrastructure providers have been using UBP for nearly a decade. That’s nearly half that of slower-growing SaaS companies (15 months).

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Headcount SaaS Compensation Acquisition 73

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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Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Oddly, after 3 days packed with new connections, great talks, and a lot of wisdom, I feel like a similar trend is happening in SaaS too. 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.

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Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 71

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Thought I wanted to be an engineer, quickly realized I actually prefer the customer facing side of the startup world. I’m sure all of you that are startup founders love your companies and your products, but I have so much love for all of them. .” Was obsessed with mathematics, went to college at 16, became an engineer.

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

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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Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The end of the year typically means content calendars are full of roundup articles and trends to look out for in the new year. It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It. This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? See all of our insights here. SaaS is now ubiquitous.

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Sales Hiring Benchmarks AWS Scale 52

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Scalability Startups and enterprises alike can scale their technology usage in alignment with their specific needs. Enhanced Data Insights Usage-based pricing generates extensive data that can be harnessed by technology companies to gain insights into customer behavior, preferences, and emerging trends.

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Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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. Love a good corporate partnership.

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Engineering Growth Hacking Scale Social Media 74

Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

SaaS startup growth has taken a hit as well as we noted. You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. . — Josh Kopelman (@joshk) May 18, 2022. Trust us, we did it recently and you can read more about our migration here. Further Reading.

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SaaS DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 52

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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.” If the trend continues into 2024 as expected, it could foreshadow accelerating growth for SaaS companies.”

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Oddly, after 3 days packed with new connections, great talks, and a lot of wisdom, I feel like a similar trend is happening in SaaS too. 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.

Scale 52

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 52

Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This all-in-one user behavior analytics helps you visualize all user engagement, analyze trends and patterns with laser precision and optimize your website for peak performance. Pricing starts at $299/month , which might be high for startups looking for a cost-effective solution. Take FullSession as an example.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Systems Review 52

Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This all-in-one user behavior analytics helps you visualize all user engagement, analyze trends and patterns with laser precision and optimize your website for peak performance. Pricing starts at $299/month , which might be high for startups looking for a cost-effective solution. Take FullSession as an example.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Systems Review 52

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. . If you want to learn more about cloud marketplace macro trends, read the full State of Cloud Marketplaces 2020. .

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Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Speed is best for appealing to customers that are early-stage startups striving to enter the market as quickly as possible. Go to Google Trends and type in the keyword you are interested in. This allows you to catch growing trends and tendencies. Google Trends shows just the relative popularity of search queries.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Software Sales Hiring 45

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 5, 2019

But there’s a trend I’m seeing that’s making me wonder whether this segmented sales model is actually good for us. Otherwise, you’re assuming an awful lot of risk that can hurt your business and then some later. Many startups blindly follow the segmented model because “that’s the SaaS sales model.” Final thoughts.

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