Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018. Key regulatory changes included the creation of an open banking system, electronic payment funds, regulatory sandboxes, and digital identity verification. The immense potential of embedded finance is becoming increasingly evident.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2018

For many people, the first thought usually isn’t of their online store. But what you and many others may quickly realize is that setting up your digital business and accepting online payments is often a lot spookier than expected. A Haunting Lack of Localization | Ecommerce Personalization.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Then pick up a few additional tips for converting online sales, because having the fastest page on the planet can only take you so far without a more comprehensive strategy. Basically, the quicker a page loads, the more likely a website user is to be happy. What else do you need to know about selling online? What is page speed?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you hear the word “haunted,” odds are the first thing that comes to mind is not ecommerce. But in keeping with the Halloween theme, I’m going to discuss five key factors in ecommerce that you don’t want to come back to haunt your software company. Goblins, Ghouls, and Global Regulations | GDPR & PSD2. The root of the cause?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Existing QuickBooks Desktop users face the choice of upgrading to a newer version, switching to QuickBooks Online, or exploring alternative accounting software. However, it’s worth noting that Intuit has been steadily discontinuing versions of Desktop as far back as 2018 (QuickBooks Desktop 2020 was discontinued on May 31st, 2023).

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Not only is almost everyone on the planet online, but they are also spending an average of 5.9 hours per day online. years before, and a significant portion of the time spent online has been via mobile. This is important to note for businesses who are building digital experiences for users. Payments are going digital.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If anything, this was the decade they collectively became leaders not just of the technology industry, but of industry itself – Apple overtook ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company by market cap in August 2011 (that month again), and then became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap in 2018.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

or tax on tangible personal property and don’t necessarily specialize in tax laws for digital products or international transactions. We simply provide you with a complete payment solution and take care of sales tax, VAT, and GST for you. FastSpring’s JavaScript Store Builder Library lets you add FastSpring elements (e.g.,

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

One such trend is the increasing number of software companies seeking to sell their products through multiple channels—offline through sales teams and online via ecommerce, as opposed to relying solely on one distribution model or the other. We also anticipate that hybrid models of these two sales methods (i.e.

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FastSpring

MARCH 5, 2019

You’ve developed a killer product and created your business plan. Now you’re ready to sell online – congrats! But what do you need to know to ensure that your business operations will be successful, sustainable, and compliant? It’s usually based on gross revenue limits or a number of sales transactions.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. 110% Net Revenue Retention and 8 2% Customer Retention from 81,000+ SMB Customers. Bill.com sells to very small businesses that do churn at a higher rate. Almost always.

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. But for those who have a smartphone, nearly a quarter are “almost constantly” online.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ I’ve written about local business marketing and local SEO before. But, guess what?

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Frontegg

JUNE 3, 2021

Unfortunately, poor authentication and authorization implementation is still common across multiple platforms, leaving hackers with a big(ger) attack surface to exploit. Password authentication is basically a process where the end user inputs a unique ID and key to try and access the application or website. How is it performed?

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Software Platform Consulting

JUNE 25, 2019

“In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018, we facilitated nearly 14 billion healthcare transactions and approximately $1 trillion in adjudicated claims. Now that the Intelligent Healthcare Solution touches $1 Trillion in claims, you can rest assured Change Healthcare has figured out how to monetize this scale!

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Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2018, they launched it globally, and the service took off like a rocket. In this post, I’ll dive deep into how to use Facebook Watch for marketing, now that the platform has matured. Facebook is still experimenting with different content types by adding, subtracting, and tweaking to find the right balance for their platform.

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

billing, product, CRM, support), to deploy and test personalized user experiences that actually save customers, and to hire product managers with the time to run ongoing experiments, track results, and optimize at scale.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Why is it important?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. To compare, for 89% of them acquiring new users is a high priority ( sour ce ).

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

By Geoff Roberts 5 min read With some vacation time now in our rearview we’re heading towards the home stretch of 2018, making it the perfect time to fill you in on what we’ve been up to at Outseta since our July company update. We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. Here’s the latest and what’s to come.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2019, it had over 45 million buyers , a notable increase from 2018. Like any sales platform , Etsy works best when you research the competition, understand your buyers, and focus on a niche. Just follow these steps: Go to Etsy’s website and click Register at the top of the page. Printables are popular, too. Click Register.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New technologies, companies, and solutions pop up every month and they all have their mission focused toward the online world. This also refers to media buying platforms. On the other hand, the online advertising industry is already overcrowded. ad networks and demand-side platforms. What is a Demand-Side Platform?

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This means that our revenue churn was very low.

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Outseta

JULY 2, 2018

We typically start working with customers shortly after they’ve launched the first version of their website, which often is little more than a “Request Beta Access” or “Sign-up for Email Updates” form. The second major product priority is adding live chat functionality, both for use on your website and inside your application.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The way that CMOs are reacting, this is 2018 Gartner data, is that the budgets of CMOs are shifting from every category towards MarTech. So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Pauline : Oh yeah.

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BrightBack

JUNE 30, 2020

Now Brightback makes it easier for any subscription business to replace static exit surveys and outdated call centers with personalized online experiences that deflect up to 30% of cancels. 2020 is a watershed moment for customer retention. The past decade of abundant VC capital and vanity metrics couldn’t last forever.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In order for your business to grow, you need to be able to consistently increase sales. For those of you who need some new ideas to boost sales, we just posted some fool-proof tactics to boost online sales here (link to the New Year Deal post). There’s no rule that says you have to run your online store all by yourself.

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