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Ilan Kasan shared this100%Ilan Kasan shared thisThe debate about AI killing SaaS is asking the wrong question. The death of software has been announced more than once. Open source would kill proprietary software. Cloud and SaaS would make on-prem obsolete. Usage-based pricing would bury the subscription model. Each time, the eulogies were wrong. Each time, the new model layered on top and both sides converged — pulled together by what enterprises actually pay for: accountability, reliability, and someone to blame when things fail. AI will be no different. What we're entering is a Red Queen race — a concept from evolutionary biology where rival species must continuously evolve just to survive, not because they're improving in absolute terms, but because their competitors are evolving at the same time. The prey gets faster; so does the predator. Neither wins. Both are forced to keep running. 🟥 👑 Those that stand in place still will die. Most are already running. 🐰 SaaS incumbents and AI-native companies are locked into exactly this dynamic. Frontier models improve symmetrically through APIs. Access to better models isn't a moat. Customer context, workflow integration, and institutional trust are. The companies that win won't be pure AI-native players, and they won't be legacy SaaS vendors doing AI as a bolt-on. They'll be the ones who solved the convergence problem fastest. The hidden SaaS advantage is time. AI compresses development cycles, but it doesn't compress institutional risk tolerance. Enterprises still take years to evaluate, migrate, retrain, and exit contracts. That gap is where incumbents adapt. The future isn’t wholesale replacement. It’s convergence 🔄 As the Red Queen said to Alice: “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” Thanks to Geektime גיקטיים for the opportunity to publish the full article. Link in the comments 👇
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Ilan Kasan shared thisThinking about selling your startup? Read this first. In today’s tough funding environment, M&A is a more viable exit path than ever—but it’s also one of the hardest journeys a founder can take. After going through multiple acquisitions (on both sides), I’ve put together none essential lessons every founder should know before selling their company. From understanding buyer motivations to knowing when not to sell, this is the guide I wish I had the first time around. 👉 Read: The Founder’s Guide to M&A #startups #aquisition #SaaSThe Founder's Guide to M&A: Nine Essential Considerations When Selling Your CompanyThe Founder's Guide to M&A: Nine Essential Considerations When Selling Your Company
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Ilan Kasan reposted thisIlan Kasan reposted this#meet Opsima - FUTURE LOGISTICS on May 20 in Duisburg! On May 20, we will be exhibiting at the #FUTURELOGISTICS innovation fair at the Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt in #Duisburg - a exceptional location for innovation in logistics! Stop by our booth and meet our Co-Founder and CEO Ben Benny! We’d love to show you how you can gain full #visibility, #optimized #performance, and guarantee #service #levels for #physical #operations driving your business. No matter where you are today, empower operations to take control of assets, people, and workloads, all in one place. Look forward to: 👾 Startup Guided Tours incl. live pitches & Q&A 👾 International special exhibition 👾 Matchmaking app 👾 Live podcast with Boris Felgendreher, @ 👾 Insights from Michal Hendel-Sufa (Principal theDOCK) 👾 Top-class panels & discussions with e.g. Victor Kaupe and Holger Schneebeck When and where? 📅 20.05.2025 📍 Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt, Duisburg No ticket yet? Then secure it quickly: https://lnkd.in/esXZ9_ZD 🎟️ Come along - we look forward to exchanging ideas with you! #logistics #supplychain #innovation #robotics #automation #startups #paneltalks #community #fair #messe #logistik #ports #intermodal 🙏 Thanks to the sponsors: EMO-LOG GmbH, Weiss+Appetito Gruppe, LiveCharger, CANCOM, BASF Coatings Oldenburg GmbH, SCIO Automation, EEN NRW / NRW.Europa, Kuehne+Nagel, Sinalco International , RheinfelsQuellen H. Hövelmann GmbH & Co. KG DeltaPort GmbH & Co. KG Rhenus Logistics Yusen Logistics TanQuid GmbH & Co. KG Haeger & Schmidt Logistics Weiss+Appetito Gruppe EY DIT Duisburg Intermodal Terminal GmbH avitea GmbH O+G Industrieservice GmbH Dortmunder Hafen AG M. Zietzschmann GmbH & Co. KG Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH Captrain Deutschland-Group startport GmbH Alon Gozlan Henry Harel Yaron Shani Adina Yakobov Boaz Karni-Harel, PhD Asaf Nunu Marcus Dober Shani Halpern
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Ilan Kasan reposted thisIlan Kasan reposted thisYou open a thread and it’s 30 messages long. - Someone replied to an older message. - Someone else quoted a reply from two weeks ago. - Someone forwarded the whole thing with “see below.” Is this really how email is supposed to work? Spike rethinks that experience: ✅ Chat-style conversation view that reads like a conversation ✅ AI-powered message summaries that surface what matters now Same content. Just more usable.
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Ilan Kasan reposted thisIlan Kasan reposted this📢 When Operations and Maintenance go to therapy... Ever wonder why these two critical terminal teams clash? 🤔 In our latest blog post, we take you inside the "couples therapy" sessions between Operations (eager to keep cargo moving) and Maintenance (in charge of equipment longevity). "He just doesn't understand what I'm up against," Operations complains. "Every minute a crane isn't moving containers costs us thousands!" From battlefield planning meetings to breakthrough collaboration, discover how these natural "adversaries" found common ground using shared data and aligned metrics. The results? 12% reduction in crane breakdowns during operations! 🚢✨🔧 Read the full article to see how seemingly conflicting goals actually align. Link in the comments below 👇
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Ilan Kasan shared thisWhat I look for when i hire product managers. Would love your thoughts and feedback! (AI used for editing only and the image 😀 )The DNA of an Exceptional Product Manager: 5 Essential PillarsThe DNA of an Exceptional Product Manager: 5 Essential Pillars
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Ilan Kasan reposted thisIlan Kasan reposted this🚨 Genesys Q3 Fiscal Year 24 results are in for #GenesysCloud! 💰Continued strong ARR growth of approximately 50% year-over-year at nearly $1.3B scale 🌎Brought in more than $75 million in new business influenced by Genesys sustainability practices 🆕Released 30 new AI features focused on further strengthening generative, conversational and predictive AI capabilities “The remarkable growth we’ve achieved across the globe is a result of the increasing demand for the AI-powered experience orchestration capabilities of Genesys Cloud and its transformative ability to create the best personalized experiences for deeper, more meaningful relationships that drive loyalty and business outcomes.” - Tony Bates, Genesys CEO and chairman. Learn about these accomplishments & more ↓Genesys Cloud Reaches Nearly $1.3 Billion Annual Recurring Revenue in Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024 | GenesysGenesys Cloud Reaches Nearly $1.3 Billion Annual Recurring Revenue in Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024 | Genesys
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisWhy am I attending the Cyprus Quarries Association and Aggregates Europe - Entrepreneurs’ Forum in two day? Well, Every day, we rely on mining and quarry industries without even thinking about it. The phone in your pocket. The concrete under your feet. The glass in your window. The copper in power cables. The lithium in EV batteries. The fertilizer helping grow food. The stone used to build roads, ports, bridges, and cities. Modern life is literally built from materials pulled out of the ground. Yet most people never see what it actually takes to bring these materials from a mine or quarry to daily use. Massive equipment operating 24/7. Harsh environments. Complex logistics. Constant maintenance. Safety risks. Downtime pressure. And teams coordinating everything in real time just to keep operations moving. This is where technology changes the game, and the impact is clear: Safer operations. Lower emissions. Less waste. Higher efficiency. Better use of the critical resources the world relies on every day, especially as demand for these materials continues to grow. The transition to renewable energy, EVs, infrastructure expansion, and data centers will require even more copper, aggregates, lithium, iron ore, and industrial minerals. The future will need smarter, cleaner, and more efficient operations. Because behind almost every modern convenience is an industry most people rarely think about. It’s also a great opportunity to share one of our successful case studies from the mining and quarrying industry, and how technology helped improve operational efficiency, visibility, and frontline execution, you can find the like in the first comment below ⬇️ Feel free to DM me if you wanna know Eurogypsum Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026 Mark Rachovides Antonis Antoniou Latouros Christoph Dorn Rolf Kuby Dirk Fincke Tristan Suffys Patricia Aybar #Euromines #ΣΥΝΔΕΣΜΟΣΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΤΙΚΩΝΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΕΩΝΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ #AggregatesEurope #GreekMiningEnterprisesAssociation #EuroGypsum #CyprusQuarriesAssociation
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisThe journey goes on! What a fun experience to imagine our brand on a 101 billboard on my way back home! Give us a call, we will make your marketing dreams come true. Ideate on your favorite LLM, 3 minutes after that your campaign is up in the air, impressive, personalized, content rich, delivering best in market analytics. Pipeline is around the corner. Folloze
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisThis is my PTO week. Today Kira and I walked through Kazimierz, Kraków's historic Jewish quarter, and saw Schindler's Factory, and one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries. Seeing the sites affected by Nazi occupation was deeply moving. The contrast of sadness and hope stayed all day- and it’s also a reminder why being politically correct or silent isn’t an answer . We must always fight for what we believe is right even when it’s not a popular stance.
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Ilan Kasan reacted on thisIlan Kasan reacted on thisלBoris Levin היה שילוב נדיר ומיוחד - הוא היה חד וחכם כמו שהיה טוב לב. והשילוב הזה הפך אותו לאחד היועצים המשמעותיים ביותר עבורנו בקרן. כי כשאתה בוחן השקעה או מתלבט לגבי פיבוט משמעותי בחברה, אתה מחפש מישהו שיהיה נדיב מספיק עם הזמן, הניסיון והתובנות שלו, אבל גם חד וישיר מספיק כדי לכוון אותך למקום הנכון. ובוריס היה בדיוק האדם הזה. עם הזמן ולמזלי הרב הוא גם הפך לחבר. ומדי פעם, כמעט בדרך אגב, הוא היה משתף שהוא עובר בדיקות או טיפולים. תמיד באופטימיות, לפעמים אפילו עם חצי חיוך ובהומור. אתמול, כששמעתי על לכתך בוריס, הלב שלי נשבר. אולי זה באמת נכון שהטובים הולכים מוקדם מדי. אני לא יכולה להתחיל לתאר עד כמה אני מצטערת ומשתתפת בצער המשפחה והאנשים שאהבו אותך. כל מה שנותר לומר הוא תודה ענקית על מי שהיית ועל הדרך שבה נגעת באנשים סביבך. אני מקווה שעכשיו תנוח על משכבך בשלום. נתגעגע Glilot Capital Kobi Samboursky Arik Kleinstein Lior Litwak Rinat Remler Elisha Levy
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisHow do you feed a headless #SAP / #IFS / #IBM / #Oracle That’s the question I keep coming back to every time someone talks about “headless ERP” or “headless asset management.” Or in other words, where does the data come from in the first place? Well, headless system still needs to eat. And if what you feed it is incomplete, or detached from reality… You have just built a faster way to distribute bad information. This is why ERP and EAM systems are becoming middleware. Important middleware, but middleware. The future is autonomous data capture, and this is how you gonna feed your headless animal. Because whoever owns the raw, live data layer owns the future of real-world operations. That is why I wrote about the best EAM software providers in 2026. Because you still need a great EAM, just not as the brain, as the middleware.
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisYesterday Mine hosted the Privacy Soirée at the #IAPPSymposium26 in Toronto, complete with my fav Canadian guilty pleasure, poutine, aka fries with cheese curds smothered in gravy (which suffice to say was a complete success) 👏🏽 Shoutout to the IAPP and fellow Canadian J. Trevor Hughes for another successful gathering of #privacy pros! I’ll be at Booth 112 today with the Mine team so come check us out!
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisGrateful to host Eric S. Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom, for a fireside chat in Silicon Valley. A few takeaways: • In Zoom’s earliest days, investor interest was far from obvious. • Great companies do not wait for permission. • Zoom became critical infrastructure during the pandemic, but extreme short-term growth can be both a gift and a burden. Can too much growth, too quickly, make a company’s long-term journey harder? • Despite building one of the most important software companies of the decade, Eric spoke with thoughtfulness about being present as a family member. Thank you to Eric for the candor, humility, and lessons on leadership.
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisGenesys Xperience CDMX was a full house, but what stood out most was the conversations. There’s a clear shift happening across LATAM. #AI is no longer a discussion topic; it’s an execution challenge. This was also my first Xperience in Mexico City leading AI for the region, and across the board, I kept hearing the same thing. Companies have started with AI, but many are still struggling to turn that into real business impact. Plenty of pilots, plenty of tools, but not enough outcomes. What stands out in LATAM is not a lack of complexity, but a different relationship with it. With less resistance to change, organizations are more willing to rethink how work gets done, enabling faster decisions and more flexible use of systems to drive meaningful outcomes. Because the next phase won’t be about who is experimenting with AI. It will be about who can operationalize it. Great energy all week. This is just the start. Thank you Mauricio Garcia-Cepeda L. for welcoming me to the Genesys Mexico family!
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Ilan Kasan liked thisIlan Kasan liked thisYour CMMS gives you one MTBF number. Your operation needs seventeen. One number to tell you how often the fleet fails. Seventeen to tell you which asset class. Which shift. Which operator cohort. Which route. Which site zone. One number is a reporting metric. Seventeen is a maintenance program. The gap between them isn't a data problem. The failure history is in the CMMS. The data exists. The gap is the IT queue. Each MTBF breakdown layer is a separate development project. In most industrial environments, that's 4 to 12 weeks per report. Seventeen cuts. Do the math. Operations leaders have been sitting on the insight they need, with the data to build it, waiting on a queue that moves at IT velocity. that is solvable. Opsima Agent Builder ships MTBF segmentation in 48 hours. IT reviews it in staging, approves it, and it goes to production. No shortcuts in governance. Just a different speed. Full article in comments. #MaintenanceManagement #MTBF #AgenticAI #IndustrialOperations #ITBacklog
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Atlas Technology Group LLC
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Mentor at Microsoft Ventures Accelerator
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Mentoring startup companies through the Microsoft Accelerator program.
Advising to companies in the program in areas such as Cloud, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Communications, Product Management, User Experience, Business strategy and planing product management, go to market, fundraising and more
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Selectively joining clients to meeting servers
Issued US 20100088414
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Methods And Apparatuses For Storing Information Associated With A Target To A User
Issued US 20070256022
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Methods and apparatuses for presenting information associated with a target to a user
Issued US 20070265993
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Beta Gama Sigma
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English
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Hebrew
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