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5 Interesting Learnings from Lightspeed Commerce at $750,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. 39% of their revenues from software, and going down. Driving up ARPU at scale key to growth with SMBs.

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How To Grow Your Startup By Asking Better Questions

Hitenism

You have limited cash, which means that you only have a finite amount of time and resources to scale your business. Google Analytics didn’t keep track of users over time which meant it was virtually impossible to track multiple visits, purchases, and subscription payments. Talk To Your Customers.

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The UK Is a Fintech Regulatory Superpower

Andreessen Horowitz

The UK is home to some of the largest payments companies and most successful neobanks in the world, Wise, Starling, and Monzo among them. The UK is the goldilocks of financial services: big enough to be meaningful on a global scale, but small enough to make decisions much faster than the U.S. or the rest of Europe.

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17 BEST Podcast Hosting Sites Of 2021

How To Buy Saas

We are here to help you; we have reviewed and researched all the available podcast hosting sites and made a list of the best 17 podcast platform for you. Buzzsprout is the first podcast hosting platform; it is one of the best podcast hosting sites available in the market. Spreaker allows you to do programmatic monetization.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.