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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Facebook and Twitter, meanwhile, struggled under the unavoidable pressure of hosting half a globe’s worth of daily online communication.

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

Casey Accidental

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. It kept investing in making its overall growth model stronger. Many of those ticket buyers, once introduced to Eventbrite, start creating events themselves. But Eventbrite didn’t stop there.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. Also, there is less pressure on Sales. This is not all.

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Becoming Indistractable

ProfitWell

Operationally speaking, this could range from offering a new service for mobile readers, creating new pricing models, or offering new payment methods.". Succeeding in subscription also means having business flexibility—try new things and iterate quickly on offerings, as ultimately, needs change. Scribd + $58 million.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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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 has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. In 2007, it became one of the first markets in the world to issue contactless (tap-to-pay) cards. (A