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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. The mobile phone user has the highest NPS as a BILL user because it’s super simple and easy, and the clerk does all the data entry, pulling everything in and managing it. With SMBs, the smallest business is owner-operated. Let’s look at what kind of moat it is.

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What’s Changed in Product-led Growth with Calendly CMO Patrick Moran

SaaStr

2004’s Lesson from WebEx. Quip had over two million mobile registered users to their name, and less than $1 million of ARR. Here, he discusses a few of the key lessons he’s learned along the way. My point isn’t to say that’s nothing new. It’s that we’re standing on tall shoulders, and there’s a lot to learn from the past.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We were the first to put a messenger inside a web or mobile app for use by marketing and support teams, and later, the first to put one on a website to help sales teams too. I studied artificial intelligence in college in 2004. Our mission from the start has been to make internet business personal.

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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. Why Is Adding Mobile Payments Important to Businesses Today?

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Checking in on Shopify Plus’ 11,000 checkouts per minute

Intercom, Inc.

In the first decade after its founding in 2004, Shopify amassed 120,000 customers and catapulted into the top 10 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. Under his leadership, Shopify Plus have grown to support 7,000 brands – including Kylie Cosmetics, Fashion Nova, Steve Madden, Staples and more – who process 11,000 checkouts per minute.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

The areas of interest are IT, mobile, consumer products and services, healthcare, cleantech, and financial services, among others. Founded: 2004. SaaS Investments: NQ Mobile, and others. Its goal is to provide funding to tech businesses in fields like semiconductors, mobile, internet, security, enterprise, and more.

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Design’s New Frontier: The IRL Era

Tom Tunguz

When the neologism was popularized in 2004 by Tim O'Reilly, the words Web 2.0 When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. captured a desire for the web to become interactive. It was a description of a movement towards social media and engaging users on the web. In Web 2.0,