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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

But these days I often respond “financial services.”. In the last two years, financial services startups have been innovating impressively quickly and challenging some of the fundamental ways in which capital and credit are distributed. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed.

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

SaaStr

Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2