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

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Why at that time?

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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. Most didn’t even have internet. Can you believe that?

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth.

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Stripe vs. Braintree: Which is Right for Your Business?

Baremetrics

If your eCommerce business needs an online payment processor, perhaps you're considering Stripe vs. Braintree. Online payment platforms make it possible to send and receive payments. For those who are not yet familiar, Stripe is essentially an one-stop financial solution for eCommerce businesses that was founded in 2010.

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. But the the, I suppose the proper answer would be that this was probably back in 2010.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Doubling Down on Technology

OPEXEngine

From 2010 through 2020, tech start-ups made up a majority of venture funding across all deals by independent venture capital (VC) firms and corporate venture capitalists, according to Bain analysis using our Startup Investment Cruncher database (see Figure 1). That trend has only picked up momentum during the pandemic.