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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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Checking in on Shopify Plus’ 11,000 checkouts per minute

Intercom, Inc.

In the first decade after its founding in 2004, Shopify amassed 120,000 customers and catapulted into the top 10 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. Under his leadership, Shopify Plus have grown to support 7,000 brands – including Kylie Cosmetics, Fashion Nova, Steve Madden, Staples and more – who process 11,000 checkouts per minute.

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Product-led Growth: What It Is and Why You Need It

Totango

The PLG model had been introduced to the video conferencing space years earlier in 2004 by future Zoom competitor GoToMeeting, which used a freemium offer to introduce users to its product. Following its launch in 2013, Zoom overtook its rivals by differentiating its product on selling points, such as being mobile- and user-friendly.

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Design’s New Frontier: The IRL Era

Tom Tunguz

When the neologism was popularized in 2004 by Tim O'Reilly, the words Web 2.0 When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. captured a desire for the web to become interactive. It was a description of a movement towards social media and engaging users on the web. In Web 2.0,