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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Freemium is Back! But You’ll Need 50 Million Active Users for Freemium to Actually Work as a Business Model.

SaaStr

In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. But there are not too many with 1,000,000 paid business customers, or 50m truly active users. Enough not to churn. The post Freemium is Back!

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

Braintree by PayPal. Are you looking for a Paddle alternative that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Braintree by PayPal Braintree from PayPal is a payment processor that enables customers to accept online payments via credit, debit, Venmo (in the U.S.), 2Checkout (now Verifone).

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Recurring Donations for Nonprofits: Billing Software

Subscription Flow

Subscription-based business models have increased in number as media streaming platforms like Netflix and delivery services like Amazon have risen in popularity. A subscription-based model for fundraising can therefore raise donor engagement, optimizing revenue streams for NPOs.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business? I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. The transactions are a little bit more like PayPal.

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Everything You Need To Know about Merchant Processing and How To Choose the Right Solution for Your Needs

Stax

Pricing: Square works on a per-transaction pricing model and starts at 2.6% + 10 cents for in-person and 2.9%+30 PayPal PayPal is a well-known online payment system that simplifies international money transfers. It’s also simple to integrate PayPal with your existing website. 30 cents for online transactions.