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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5%

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010. The Cambridge Analytica scandal showed just how vulnerable these platforms are to being misused by bad actors.

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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. Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. This is not all.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Average Revenue per Customer. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. And you can basically predict revenue ahead of time and therefore raise money early on to grow even faster. MRR, obviously.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Zoho is committed to offering outstanding customer service.