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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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News: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Apple and Epic in Antitrust Case

FastSpring

How Apple Is Responding The Associated Press reported that this lifts a hold on an order to give devs more freedom to use other payment options. Warn consumers using a “scare screen” if they click a link pointing them to an alternate payment system, stating that Apple is not responsible for those purchases regarding privacy or security.

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How to Protect Your Website from Hackers and Data Breaches

Neil Patel

The number of website data breaches is steadily growing. You may be thinking, “What is a website data breach exactly, and should I be worried?”. You may be thinking, “What is a website data breach exactly, and should I be worried?”. What Is a Website Data Breach? Statista data shows the number of U.S.

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How Stripe Dominates Online Payments by Going After Developers

Chart Mogul

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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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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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.