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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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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

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. So we built it quickly and we shipped it.

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Best Payroll for Small Businesses

Stax

Subscribing to a specialist payroll process not only ensures that you pay employees accurately and on time, but also allows your business to stay compliant with an ever-changing tax code. Businesses should look for ease of use, cost-effectiveness, scalability, compliance, and integration capabilities in potential payroll systems.

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Becoming Indistractable

ProfitWell

Succeeding in subscription also means having business flexibility—try new things and iterate quickly on offerings, as ultimately, needs change. Operationally speaking, this could range from offering a new service for mobile readers, creating new pricing models, or offering new payment methods.". Have any of you read Nir’s work?

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. He then founded Upserve and sold that business to Vista Equity Partners. And we signed up customers even today that still use the platform. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million. Don’t miss episode 94!