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Navigating Your SaaS Transition: 5 Insights From Stardock’s Experience With FastSpring

FastSpring

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. The best way I can describe my job is trying to decide what advice is bad advice,” he told us. And I would say that was bad advice.”

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The light bulb was invented in 1879, but it wasn’t until 1930 that 70% of US houses had electricity.

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Embedded analytics: The future of Fintech SaaS

Panintelligence

This leads to a constant backlog of requests for data teams. User-friendly delivery of clear and concise answers is the benchmark, and self-serve is fast becoming the ‘norm’. Since its debut in the 1980s, no-code has changed the game when it comes to developing applications—and launching them at speed.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment.

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

SaaStr

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. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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SaaS Valuation: How to Value a New SaaS Business

How To Buy Saas

You can take informed decisions to plan for company expansions, product development, investments, and plan strategies. You can determine your company’s true value by benchmarking the valuation against industry standards. It will help you determine your company’s growth potential and profitability in the future.

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

OPEXEngine

Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Measuring tech debt.