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5 Interesting Learnings from AppFolio at $660,000,000 in “ARR”

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market cap (11x) – Growing 29% a year — efficiently – Only 30% of revenue from software, rest payments + services – 20% Free Cash Flow, 16% non-GAAP margins – Frozen… pic.twitter.com/8PLvYP1JRz — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? 5 Most of Their Revenue, Like Shopify and Bill, is Not From Software.

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Using Paystack for Shopify Merchants To Empower Your E-Commerce Business

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In recent years, an e-commerce platform, by the name of Shopify , has grown in popularity. It was launched by Canadian entrepreneurs in 2006 and it provides online store-fronts to businesses and manages their transactions and inventory seamlessly.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. But if you can do it, it’s more valuable.

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Stripe vs Adyen: Features, Pricing, Reviews, and More

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Stripe is one of the biggest names in the payment processor business. Adyen, a Dutch payment company dating back to 2006, also has its fair share of the market. Of course, these two solutions, while popular, don't necessarily meet the needs of every business. Easily connect to other business services.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

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How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

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With 40+ million downloads, 6,600+ customers, and more than 1,000 technology and service partners, MongoDB prides itself as the fastest-growing database ecosystem. Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Founded: 2006. Founded: 2012.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.