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CRO Confidential: The Proven Customer Acquisition Strategies Behind Toast’s Explosive Growth with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and CRO of Toast Jonathan Vassil

SaaStr

Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. Any city block in Miami or San Francisco may have a pet store, a drug store, or a salon, and then you’ll have four restaurants. The ones they met in person closed at a 3x rate.

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What You Need to Know About Card Not Present Transactions

FastSpring

The impressive growth of digital businesses combined with consumers’ growing interest in cross-border ecommerce and online shopping will continue to propel the growth of the ecommerce ecosystem. A key catalyst behind the explosive growth of ecommerce stems from increased mobile phone usage. billion dollars.

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Bitcoin Halving 2024: What Merchants Need to Know and How to Prepare

BitPay

For some context, let’s look at previous halving years: 2012 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2013 2016 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2017 2020 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2021 Why should your organization care about any of this? When the price of Bitcoin rises, spending habits change.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. Founded : 2017. CEO : Tiago Dalvi.

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The ChartMogul 2017 year in review

Chart Mogul

Here's a summary of what we shipped, published and achieved in 2017, in case you missed something! We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. Also: We published a follow-up to our most popular blog post of all time: SaaS landing pages in 2017: Our analysis of 100+ top businesses. Life or death.”.

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

Casey Accidental

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. We think of this as sequencing different S-curves of growth. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies. Then if we look at the top five public cloud companies.

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