SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What is the shortest time it took for a company to go from concept/launch to their IPO? I think Lotus Software (of 1-2-3 fame) must be close. It shipped Lotus 1-2-3 in January ’83 and sold $50m in software in its first year on the market — that must be $100m+ in today’s $$$. Versus, apparently, a plan for $1m in revenues the first year acc. to Wikipedia.

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Unbounce

DECEMBER 1, 2024

/ Landing pages How to create a landing page that converts in 2025 (+ templates) By Banafshe Salehi and Josh Gallant. Updated on December 1, 2024. 15 min read Find out how you can build a landing page much quicker without a developerno coding skills required. Follow these 10 simple steps to get your marketing campaign up and running with a beautiful, high-converting page.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Who is Eran Zinman | Co-CEO of SaaS Leader Monday.com Eran Zinman co-founded monday.com (formerly dapulse) in 2012 with Roy Mann. As Co-CEO, he has helped transform monday.com from a team management tool into a leading work operating system platform used by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide. The monday.com story isn’t your typical SaaS narrative.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2024

In the bustling tech campuses of 2024, the age of passive AI – systems that merely respond to our queries – is giving way to something far more profound: the era of AI agents. As we look to 2025, we’re about to discover what happens when algorithms learn to act. At the heart of these emerging agents lies a trinity of learning approaches : supervised learning : like reading a book to a child, humans provide clear guidance to AI labeling cat & dog, sheep & cow. unsupervised learning

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve joined the board of Techwolf , a Belgian HR tech company backed by a slew of top venture capital investors including Harry Stebbings’ 20VC , Future of Work boutique Acadian Ventures , vertically-focused SemperVirens , and European-focused Felix Capital , Notion , and Stride.vc. They also have world-class strategic investors including SAP , ServiceNow , and Workday.

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