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Small Business Saturday Success Tips for 2023

Stax

TL;DR Founded by American Express in 2010, Small Business Saturday encourages consumers to shop at local small businesses. It was established by American Express in 2010 and gained official recognition from the US Senate the following year. It encourages consumers to shop at SMBs rather than large chain stores (e.g.,

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Scaling The Top SMB SaaS Companies: What It Takes with GGV Capital Managing Director Jeff Richards and GGV Capital Partner Tiffany Luck (Pod 647 + Video)

SaaStr

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Facebook and Twitter, meanwhile, struggled under the unavoidable pressure of hosting half a globe’s worth of daily online communication. Rise of mobile. Big tech takes over. The scale is extraordinary.

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9 Internet Trends You Need to Know About This Year

FastSpring

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. But for those who have a smartphone, nearly a quarter are “almost constantly” online.

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

Buffer Resources

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% We also pay VAT in the United Kingdom.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. What is Buffer. It collects data and feeds it into the other tools they’re using.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. David Schmaier: Sure.