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

SaaStr

The learning: When you solve a genuinely hard problem, you get three moats for free: Technical advantage through innovation Legal protection through patents Thought leadership in the space 2. Solve Hard Technical Problems Create multiple moats Patent protection Technical innovation Market leadership 2.

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The Future of Blockchain Data : Our Investment in Allium

Tom Tunguz

PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b We are excited to support Allium on this journey and look forward to the innovations they will drive in the blockchain space. BlackRock & Fidelity have launched tokenized Treasury products with nearly $1b in assets combined. In the future, every software will have a web3 component.

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Incremental Innovation is Just As Powerful as Disruption

Tom Tunguz

Like Thiel, I think Christensen undervalues efficiency innovations. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

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Best PayPal Alternative Services: Online Payment Methods & Options

FastSpring

For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally acceptable. But if you’re solely depending on PayPal, you could be leaving money on the table. Check out our list of the best Paypal alternatives that you need to have on your site today! PayPal, why it works.

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Nobody Knows : Steel & Blockchains

Tom Tunguz

Which database did PayPal use to enable internet payments? The pace of innovation is hard to overstate. This section in Read Write Own , Chris Dixon’s book, has been bouncing in my brain for the last few weeks. Nobody knows. 1 Venmo surged with social & mobile payments in the 2010s. Which database did they use? Nobody knows.

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How NitroPack Grew by 628% With FastSpring

FastSpring

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Why NitroPack Couldn’t Scale PayPal NitroPack faced two issues trying to scale using PayPal. With PayPal, You’re Not Automatically Sales Tax and VAT Compliant The biggest issue was tax compliance. The problem?

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Elon Musk’s Genius: Understanding the Cost of a Screw and the Value of a Photo

Tom Tunguz

It is hard to overstate the scope and breadth of his ambitions or the impact of his start ups PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX on payments, automobiles and space. In other words, there was an opportunity to innovate by cost reduction. Last night, Elon Musk inspired the audience at D.