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Sustainability at Disrupt

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Disrupt will have six industry tracks, each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. Yup, sustainability, a category that will combine transportation , climate tech , smart cities and renewables. What the heck is sustainable tech, anyway? Prices go up May 12.

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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

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When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

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Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy?

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Many of today’s most successful software companies, from Atlassian and Datadog to Zoom, subscribe to the bottom-up SaaS go-to-market model. For all these reasons, more and more SaaS startups are choosing to adopt the bottom-up go-to-market model. Who needs to work together to make a bottom-up SaaS model work?

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How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company

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That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model. Fortunately, the SaaS direction has delivered upsides: We’ve achieved relatively strong product-market fit and cash flow-positive status without big VC raises or burn rates. How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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With Benioff backing, Sustainable Ocean Alliance aims to be the rising tide that lifts all ‘ecopreneurs’

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For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. SDGs [sustainable development goals]. Part of that is also the ability to write bigger checks — up to $100,000 for nascent companies and projects. Here at the U.N.

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Six tips for SaaS founders who don’t want VC money

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Bootstrapping a SaaS company is not only possible – I believe it’s a saner, more sustainable way to build and scale a business. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. SaaS founders often emphasize vanity metrics, like user acquisitions and total downloads.

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