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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

The Governance Opportunity Many organizations are testing AI infrastructure that lacks governance controls. Large enterprises have an immediate need for governance solutions to handle AI at scale. The bar has risen significantly from the “growth at all costs” mindset of 2021-2022.

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Coinbase & Uniswap: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Their business models differ meaningfully. UNI is a governance token. Coinbase and Uniswap generate billions in revenue. Coinbase’s trailing revenue in Q1 2022 approached $7.5b with 34% net income margin (profit). Uniswap recorded $1.7b in revenue in the same period. Centralized exchanges hold or custody user accounts.

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How to Execute a Winning Self-Service Strategy with Wix Answers

SaaStr

The first steps depend on your unique business model. Start by thinking about your business goals and your most important KPIs. Self-service could include features like a knowledge base, chatbots, AI, and more. How Should Startups in Growth Approach Self-Service? Is it customer satisfaction? Improving operational efficiency?

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10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR with UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez and CMO Sophie Chesters (Pod 590 + Video)

SaaStr

But you can’t base your business model purely on gut instinct: you need to understand the problem by conducting serious research. But UserZoom’s roots in Europe drove them to be more creative – everything from FFFs (friends, family, and fools), to bank loans, to government grants. Fall in love with “solving a problem”.

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The Three Strategic Questions Facing AI Agencies

Tom Tunguz

There is no pattern primarily because each industry has its own evolution and dynamics that govern it. It impacts margin, ability to generate feedback data to improve ML models and sales processes. Many AI Agencies start with one model and then migrate to a second. This labor force question is an important one.

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What the Online Advertising World Can Teach Us about the Evolution of Machine Learning in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Which is the viewpoint that will ultimately govern the customer/vendor relationships in SaaS? Online advertising serves as a potential model for how the machine learning software as a service ecosystem might evolve. In the 2000s, Google and others built global machine learning models for ad targeting across websites.

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Successful Ecommerce Business Models: Which One Is Right for You

FastSpring

Let’s look at common ecommerce business models, so you can see which is best for your business. As a business, you have three basic selling models to choose from. Business-to-consumer (B2C). Business-to-business (B2B). Business-to-government or organization (B2G).