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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment.

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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 Marketer’s Guide to Gain Brand Mileage on Google Maps

Neil Patel

As of 2013, 70% of searchers used the “ click-to-call ” function directly from the search engine result pages (SERPs). After making a series of company acquisitions, Google started its desktop web mapping service in 2005. In 2013, the app was the most used smartphone app in the world. But, guess what?

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. And you start being able to acquire more of them in a scalable way i.e. an acquisition loop. In fact, they complain more, because they like the product enough to care.

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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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An Ode to Sales Hacker (aka Post-Mortem) by Max Altschuler

Sales Hacker

We’ve been getting a ton of question since we announced the acquisition so this week we’re going to have Max Altschuler break down the whole story. I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. Buckle up, it’s a pretty wild journey. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter!

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

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