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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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The traditional “Text WHY to 12345” SMS opt-in process was clunky and killed conversion rates. Their patented TwAP technology that lets customers opt-in with a single click, automatically opening their messages app with a pre-composed text. Attentive spent months with brands, consumers, and regulators to crack this.

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

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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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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

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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. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments.

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

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According to the Pew Research Institute , in 2022, a whopping 41% of Americans said they don’t use cash at all for any of their weekly purchases—a significant jump from 29% in 2018. FIS Global reports that in Norway, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries, more than 90% of transactions processed at point-of-sale (POS) in 2023 were cashless.

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Asana S-1 Analysis - Comparing One Productivity Powerhouse to Another

Tom Tunguz

Asana builds productivity and task management solutions. Smartsheet went public in 2018. However, Asana’s cash flow margin from operations is 13 percentage points better, meaning customer pre-payment terms from customers and cash collections may be superior. Asana filed their S-1 this week. SmartSheet. Gross Margin.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

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Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. We can’t wait to meet them. RD Station.