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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

You’re making a purchase at a retail store, and the cash register is large, clunky, and painfully slow, even for 2004. Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Why Is Adding Mobile Payments Important to Businesses Today?

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What’s Changed in Product-led Growth with Calendly CMO Patrick Moran

SaaStr

2004’s Lesson from WebEx. Quip had over two million mobile registered users to their name, and less than $1 million of ARR. Here, he discusses a few of the key lessons he’s learned along the way. My point isn’t to say that’s nothing new. It’s that we’re standing on tall shoulders, and there’s a lot to learn from the past.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book. We could have been way more viral had we done mobile from the beginning.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We were the first to put a messenger inside a web or mobile app for use by marketing and support teams, and later, the first to put one on a website to help sales teams too. I studied artificial intelligence in college in 2004. Our mission from the start has been to make internet business personal.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

The areas of interest are IT, mobile, consumer products and services, healthcare, cleantech, and financial services, among others. Founded: 2004. SaaS Investments: NQ Mobile, and others. Its goal is to provide funding to tech businesses in fields like semiconductors, mobile, internet, security, enterprise, and more.

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A era das plataformas — e dos novos modelos de distribuição no mundo SaaS

SaaSHolic

Em 2004, o mundo da tecnologia viveu um evento que viria transformar a nossa forma de nos relacionar com amigos, comprar, expressar opiniões, compartilhar emoções, enfim, “socializar”. Você percebe que existe uma demanda pelo seu produto, que inicialmente foi desenvolvido para usuários mobile iOS.

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Do More Competitors in a Sector Decrease Fundraising Success?

Tom Tunguz

The chart above shows startup company formation rates, the number of new companies formed each year from 2004-2011 by Crunchbase sector. The first four tags: web, mobile, enterprise, and software are catchall. As the number of companies in a sector grows, do the odds of successfully raising capital decrease? Then on down the list.