SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. If you’re not sure how to kickstart growth for your digital products or software business in Asia, listen or watch now! Before joining FastSpring, I spent quite a number of years within the payments industry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This piece, Part A, uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Milken himself is said to have credited (or blamed) VisiCalc and spreadsheets for the growth of the Private Equity (PE) industry, since cash flows vs. debt payments could be easily monitored, and a formerly complex net present value calculation now just involved a formula for a cell. billion, against almost $2.8

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Now, in Part B, we cover capturing and defending some portion of the value you generate. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. It is unlikely that a Next Gen Engine emerges that simultaneously tries to serve as many use cases on as many platforms as we see with Unity and Unreal today. How Will a Next Gen Creation Engine Arise?

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