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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. The mobile phone user has the highest NPS as a BILL user because it’s super simple and easy, and the clerk does all the data entry, pulling everything in and managing it. With SMBs, the smallest business is owner-operated.

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Merchant of Record for Mobile Games: What It Is and Why You Need One

FastSpring

Market options have been opening up for both publishers and players in the mobile games industry thanks to shifting laws and regulations around the world. Because of these developments, mobile game companies are investigating more options for monetizing their games than just the App Store or Play Store. More details on those below.)

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Which Design Era Are We In?

Tom Tunguz

In 2005, Gmail claimed the title of most sophisticated app. Next, the first mobile apps were launched. When the internet became popular in the 1990s, websites were static & adopted the design language of their creators : blue links & images. Then, we added interactivity with Javascript.

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Three Mega IPOs That Took A Long, Long Time To Get Big: Squarespace, Procore and UiPath

SaaStr

But took a full decade for mobile to get mature enough to make construction software really work, because it had to work in the field. It was founded in 2005 and took 10 years to get to $1m in ARR!! One thing these very, very different, incredibly successful SaaS companies have in common: it took like forever to get really big.

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Press Release: FastSpring CEO David Nachman on Google Play Case Ruling: “This is a Win For Gamers and Studios”

FastSpring

As part of the lawsuit, FastSpring CEO David Nachman provided substantial evidence derived from sales calls and proposal requests from a wide range of mobile game developers seeking payment and distribution solutions outside of the Google Play store from FastSpring. For more information, please visit [link].

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News: Japan Enacts Regulatory Law Targeting Apple and Google Smartphone Marketplace Dominance

FastSpring

Get tips on How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores. Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in California with offices in the UK, Netherlands, and Canada. FastSpring CEO David Nachman participated in Epic’s antitrust case against Google. This is a win for gamers and studios.”

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News: Apple First to Be Charged With Violating EU DMA by Not Fully Allowing Steering

FastSpring

Get tips on How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores. Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in California with offices in the UK, Netherlands, and Canada. FastSpring CEO David Nachman participated in Epic’s antitrust case against Google. This is a win for gamers and studios.”