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The Impact of Blockchain on SaaS

Tom Tunguz

The blockchain is a technical advance. Within the 200 ICOs I analyzed, there are tens of next-generation infrastructure players and a twenty or more platforms-as-a-service. Over time, the blockchain’s distributed database will find important applications in business, and funding will follow. The numbers are still small.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia.

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Blockchain firm Equideum and Nokia building exchange to let patients sell healthcare data

IT World

To that end, blockchain company Equideum Health and Nokia have announced plans build a SaaS-based marketplace where patient information is amassed for sale to researchers. The market for patient healthcare data is booming.

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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

First off, no, this is not a post about blockchain. They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. Sorry to disappoint you.

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Salesforce announces NFT Cloud platform amid crypto concerns

IT World

Salesforce announced Wednesday that it has rolled out a closed pilot program for a new service called NFT Cloud, allowing users to mint and manage NFTs for brand engagement and marketing purposes, even as the wider crypto market continues to spiral.

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Salesforce offers blockchain lite to entice users

IT World

Salesforce is now offering select customers blockchain as a permissioned, centrally controlled service, which in some ways runs counter to the basic premise of the technology: that it's an anonymous, distributed network with no central authority. Others control who can join and on which blockchain data can be shared.

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Andrew Chen on how tech’s giants drive growth with network effects

Intercom, Inc.

Essentially, network effects describe how the value of a product or service depends on how many users engage with it – the more users engage, the more appealing it becomes. The marketplace flavor of that is, I think, anchored so heavily on network effects and what you state as, in the title of your book, The Cold Start Problem.