by Robert Solomon | Nov 23, 2020 | CPG/Retail, Electronic Payments, Financial services, Marketplaces
Every day there is a new IPO for an interesting software company with a marketplace angle. Airbnb’s S-1 is the obvious example. But Affirm, which filed to go public last week has marketplace aspirations as well. There are plenty of great articles on the...
by Robert Solomon | Nov 16, 2020 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Foodservice, Key Success Factors, Marketplaces, Payments |
DoorDash filed for its IPO Friday. There are already great articles about the prospectus. I’m sure there will also be many financial “tear-downs”, so I’ll ignore the financial aspects of the IPO. Instead, I’m going to focus on the...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 8, 2020 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Payments, Virtual cards
Every September The Sunday Times (London) publishes the Tech Track 100, its compilation of the fastest-growing private tech companies in the UK. Last year, I wrote about the number of B2B payments and financing companies on the list. This year, at least one...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 13, 2018 | Electronic Payments, Payments
Payments businesses are having a moment: Adyen, Stripe, Square, Evo Payments, Ant Financial, the list goes on and on. Most of those companies are getting their fair share of press. But, “hidden” payments businesses abound. Sometimes payment companies...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 30, 2017 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Healthcare, Media
Two recent articles reminded me how important it is to “follow the money” when understanding software platforms. Many software platforms have a “free” (or subsidized) side and a “money side”. The money side is where the revenue...
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