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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

Stax

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. In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean.

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Cyber Weekend Benchmarking Data: 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

Q4 sales numbers usually outperform the rest of the year thanks to year-end holidays and their associated shopping cycles — but how much does that trend carry over into software and SaaS sales? We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business.

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Is Quickbooks Desktop Being Phased Out?

Stax

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about the apparent phase-out of QuickBooks Desktop software. Will I still be able to use my existing QuickBooks Desktop software? Do I need to transition to a new system altogether? QuickBooks Enterprise solutions for desktop will not be affected.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B

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FastSpring Support and Subscription Management Continue to Impress SocialBee

FastSpring

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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Asana S-1 Analysis - Comparing One Productivity Powerhouse to Another

Tom Tunguz

Asana builds productivity and task management solutions. Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts. Smartsheet went public in 2018.