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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

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What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016?

The Angel VC

So what does it take to raise money for a SaaS company in 2016? Update 1: Here's a mobile-friendly version of the napkin.] But they are exceptions, not the rule. According to this analysis of Tomasz Tunguz , the median SaaS company raises $88M before IPO. Update 2: And here is a Google Sheet version for better readability. :) ].

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Sales Efficiency through Covid : Reading the Tea Leaves for Startups

Tom Tunguz

Since 2016, the average public software witnessed its sales efficiency winnowed from 52% to 47%, a decline of about 10%. Third, those lows touch the highs of the next rung down; i.e., the current levels of the 75th percentile companies’ sales efficiency is equal to the 50th percentile companies in 2016. What happened?

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The rise of stories and the explosion of mobile micro-formats

Intercom, Inc.

Mobile formats such as stories have exploded in popularity in recent years, but they raise some interesting design questions – how are they changing the mechanics of mobile interaction? Stories and Explosion of Mobile Micro-Formats ???. 3/16 In 2016 Facebook introduced reactions. . Stories are mobile-only ?.

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Trends in Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016

Tom Tunguz

These customers are hungry for novel software with similar user experiences to what they’ve become accustomed to on the web and their mobile phone. Artificial intelligence is to be a big trend in the SaaS world, a theme that matured in 2016 but will very much continue through 2017. And investors are excited to support them.

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How Hiyacar is building a community with Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Founded in 2016, Hiyacar’s goal has always been to connect drivers with trusted local car owners. Since hiring out Graeme’s own car in February 2016, Hiyacar has welcomed over 100,000 members to its platform. “No For us, it’s about connecting people in their local communities and, by doing that, changing mobility for the better.

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Modern Infrastructure Companies in the Cloud: Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Database Company from Scratch with Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem

SaaStr

But Neo4j’s products also managed to draw in enthusiastic users from other communities, like when we released a graph algorithm package in 2016. And we live in this really magical world of two concurrent platform shifts: the shift to mobile and the shift to the cloud. Pro Tips for Modern Cloud Infrastructure.

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