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Many of Latin America’s SaaS businesses outperform others at efficiency metrics, but capital scarcity also puts a limit to innovation, although AI could change that.

We are seeing a groundswell of interest from the tech industry to develop ways to serve frontline workers.

If you build a truly great product, people will happily pay for it. Just check out how well Apple and Tesla have done.

Enterprises need to understand how much to budget into AI tools, how to weigh the benefits of AI vs. new recruits, and how to ensure their training is on point.

Cowboy Ventures predicts that “given the hard shift to enterprise,” we can “hope and expect more exciting consumer unicorns will be born in coming years.”

Avoid the safety of ordinary products and aim for innovation and distinctiveness. Dare to be different and push boundaries.

Building a profitable AI business poses unique challenges beyond those faced when launching a typical tech startup.

As companies, large and small, layer on generative AI features, they could struggle to find a pricing scheme that balances value and cost.

All products have a life cycle, from development to introduction to growth and maturity. A fantastic product is not enough. To continue accelerating your company’s growth, you must go multi-product.…

What does it all mean for startups entering 2024? It means they have to prove their worth more than ever.

Assigning equal weight to growth and profitability for late-stage businesses is flawed and has caused misguided business decisions.

Sometimes it’s important to state the obvious. That democracies are fragile but that technology can help. And also that crowdfunding isn’t always the best way to launch an innovative product.

To master deep tech investing, a VC fund manager must understand market opportunities that are growing in size and at a rate that cannot be ignored.

While it’s easy to get lost in the hype of generative AI, you have to remember there could be a big governance piece coming.

While the allure of absolute control is compelling, technical leaders must critically reassess its long-term viability.

Today we’re focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers.

Companies employing subscription licensing have grown between three and four times faster than the S&P 500 over the past 12 years.

The benefits of a well-run marketplace are numerous: a far more valuable user experience for your customers, a differentiated product and new revenue streams.

When companies merge, there’s almost always significant trepidation, so your first job must be to offer your stakeholders peace of mind.

Your business must ensure that internal and external targets understand what the merged company will deliver and how it will make it happen.

It’s notable that interest rates have risen so much that revenue from cash holdings have grown large enough that their positive earnings impact is broadening.

Comcast, a division of NBCUniversal, which broadcasts multiple sports, developed an accelerator to help encourage sports tech startups.

After some recent turbulence, it would be easy to think that Zendesk’s overall financial performance suffered as a result, but that really wasn’t the case.