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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. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet. Rise of mobile.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide.

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Cash Flow Statements: Examples and Solutions for Your SaaS Business

Baremetrics

Calculating cash flow with the direct method 2. Calculating cash flow with the indirect method 3. Benefits of cash flow planning for SaaS businesses SaaS-specific cash flow problems 1. Balancing immediate expenses with payment delays 2. Multiple debtors and late payments 3. How to calculate cash flow 1.

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DTC metrics: top direct to consumer KPIs to track

ProfitWell

companies manufacture and ship their products directly to buyers without relying on traditional stores. Here are some popular DTC brands that may ring a bell: Casper: Online mattress company founded in 2014. Rent the Runway: Online service providing rental designer clothing and accessories, with the option to subscribe.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee.

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A Top G Suite Expert Shares His 31 Best Modern Security Tips

BetterCloud

Many of these tips are oldies but goodies to cybersecurity experts, but I’ve tried to include a few unique tips with my personal explanation for each. Plus, the website [link] has a great tool for passphrase generation. I recommend using a simple cipher for a website plus a base passphrase.