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Nassim Taleb, a 90s Mobile Game, and Why Payment Gateways Alone Don’t Offer Revenue Growth

Chargebee

In 2007, mathematical statistician and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that inflexibility, even in the most meticulously built systems, ultimately makes them fragile. Take the example of Taneli Armanto’s late-90s breakaway mobile game – “Snake.” ” The objective […]

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. Rise of mobile. Big tech takes over.

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What You Need to Know About the PSD2 and Strong Customer Authentication

FastSpring

On September 14th, 2019 all payment providers who process payments for consumers in the European Union must adhere to new requirements for authenticating online payments as part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Merchants and other players in the payments space are required to have 3D Secure 2.0

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. Founders: Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. Founders: Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan.

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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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use.