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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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UIPath S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees. The services gross margin is -19%.

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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. Learn all you need to know about the essentials of subscription services management in this article. However, the platform process is not always automated. This process is often automated.

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

Neil Patel

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company. Sell your startup by following a quick and simple selling process. Key Features.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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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. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company. Want to see more content like this?