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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. It’s a capable solution, but by no means is Paddle a universal, one-size-fits-all option.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Gain Brand Mileage on Google Maps

Neil Patel

After making a series of company acquisitions, Google started its desktop web mapping service in 2005. While optimizing your website for Google search results is a good start, there’s still a disparity between map and web search results. Google Maps actually started as a C++ program at Where 2 Technologies. But, guess what?

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company. Flippa is a marketplace for buying and selling websites, apps, domains, and online businesses.

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Subscription Management and What You Should Know

Baremetrics

Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Subscription management defines a range of operations revolving around the customer lifecycle, including handling refunds, assigning credits, handling adjustments to subscription models mid-cycle, payment methods, etc.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model. Key Metrics to Track for Converting Freemium to Paid. Here are the metrics you absolutely need to be tracking to get freemium right. Pick the wrong value metric for your freemium plan and you’ve found yourself headed straight for disaster.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware. Growth stage.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. But when I was at Google, we instituted this Great Manager Awards and I would often be the person who moderated the panel of the great managers so that they could share their best practices with other folks in the organization. Who is this person? What are they looking for?

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