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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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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

SaaStr

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is off. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. You may be asked to own new stuff beyond just what your company / app does. It’s a lot of change.

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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. Trusted by top blockchain projects, QuikNode has launched over 3,000 nodes and has been helping advance the blockchain ecosystem since 2018. A simple control panel brings it all together and makes infrastructure management easy.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. Solving the puzzle.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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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. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.