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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin. 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

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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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?

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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. Want to see more content like this?