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Apple's AI Challenger Sale

Tom Tunguz

Apple is competing using the challenger sale : Apple is telling the market, to use AI, you should want private AI, you should want to control your own data because it’s valuable 1. Apple’s massive distribution will affect consumer & enterprise preferences. It’s already happening.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). Today, many of those data centers are in the cloud, hence cloud prem. Cloud is more expensive for larger enterprises. But the drivers are real. The first is cost.

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What Has Your GPU Done For You Today?

Tom Tunguz

A year ago, enterprises balked at the prospect of deploying AI. Today, buyers are more familiar & have security options : deploying AI on virtual private cloud architectures, tools to delete data from cloud AI vendors, dedicated security tools for AI, & a panoply of open source alternatives.

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You *know* your exec team desperately needs an offsite. We’ve got the easiest (and best, and cheapest) solution

SaaStr

Five Lessons for Breaking Through and Landing Your Spot in the Enterprise. Mastering the Mid-market: Lessons on Building and Selling into Scaling Enterprises. Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum. How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B . How to Make Product Plans in an Ever-Changing World.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. By the time you havve 20-100 enterprise customers, 50-100+ workflows, 10+ configurations … it’s all just too complicated to do part-time, in your head. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link].

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. Some naysayers doubted that genAI could scale into the enterprise at all. As always, building and selling any product for the enterprise requires a deep understanding of customers’ budgets, concerns, and roadmaps. Isn’t this all hype?

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Best Cloud Web Hosting

Neil Patel

A private cloud can be created internally by the entity that needs it or offered by an external private cloud hosting provider. A more recent innovation is the virtual private cloud, which combines many advantages of both options. Today, managed cloud hosting uses a virtual private cloud.