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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. When you’re starting a new company, you ask “who should I use for banking, who should I use for card processing, payroll, etc.?”

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Using Paystack for Shopify Merchants To Empower Your E-Commerce Business

Subscription Flow

In recent years, an e-commerce platform, by the name of Shopify , has grown in popularity. It was launched by Canadian entrepreneurs in 2006 and it provides online store-fronts to businesses and manages their transactions and inventory seamlessly.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Number three is not understanding their business model. If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If you take the case of Justin.tv

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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. Recurring payments.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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Subscription-based economy trends: business tips, benefits & examples

ProfitWell

From hygiene products to software to bacon (yes, bacon), you can purchase a subscription for just about anything today. Why is this model so popular? It’s a mutually beneficial system. This knowledge makes it easy to predict revenue growth for the future and track how customers’ perception of value changes over time.