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M&A Is Back! Melio’s $2.5B Exit to Xero — In Just 7 Years!

SaaStr

to dominate US SMB payments. Founder Matan Bar’s payments pedigree (sold first company to PayPal, ran PayPal’s Global P2P) meant he understood the pain intimately. Takeaway : Don’t just digitize a process—eliminate the friction entirely. TL;DR : After years of M&A drought, big deals are returning.

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Hear From These Speakers at SaaStr Annual 2020

SaaStr

When the company was first founded, two of its co-founders, Wade and CTO Bryan were freelancing on web projects and soon noticed a pattern around their clients who were asking for more and more integrations built from one app to another This is where the idea for Zapier was born. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

Baremetrics

QuikNode provides elastic APIs & dedicated node services, as well as powerful tools & analytics. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. will build upon machine learning and artificial intelligence to process information with almost human-like ability.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics. Tips on Enterprise Pricing.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an investor who brings real world operating experience to his job.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

If you’re reading this post, this probably isn’t news to you. I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing. Don't fret, we just bought out our investors and took on some debt.