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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

Payrix

Mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs : With the resurgence of M&A activity and an opening IPO market, software companies can explore opportunities for consolidation and value creation. However, companies must look beyond basic payment integration to evolve into platforms offering comprehensive services.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tom Tunguz

To sustain these growth rates, startups like these require lots of cash because of the customer acquisition payback period, and the more tenuous ones need capital to prove the business model actually works at scale. Imagine regional taxi services, 4 in the US, each with a different app, different labor pools, different terms.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

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Why Growth Hacking Doesn’t Scale, And How To Plan For Growth Instead

Sales Hacker

However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. To keep growing at the same growth rate requires a significant investment in the acquisition efforts as depicted in figure 2. Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. SaaS Sales teams.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.