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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

You’re making a purchase at a retail store, and the cash register is large, clunky, and painfully slow, even for 2004. Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Let’s time travel back, just 20 years ago, to the shopping mall.

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. Why software/SaaS companies should care. Let’s go ??.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

SaaStr

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

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Get More Out Of Q4: 2022 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

The fourth quarter is the most important quarter for software companies around the world. . We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. We discovered that Q4 is by far the best-performing quarter of the year for both business and consumer sales.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. 110% growth at $4B in revenues.

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What to Expect When You Switch to a Full-Service Ecommerce Solution

FastSpring

Ecommerce is big business. billion online in 2017, the highest growth rate since 2011. There are thousands of companies selling online to millions of customers, but what’s the best way to sell? First and foremost, scaling a software company involves investing considerable time, capital, and energy. spent $453.46