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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), Lockheed Martin makes F-35s by assembling atoms, and has a 13% gross margin; Salesforce makes software by assembling bits, and has a 74% gross margin. With this faster method of calculating, what might have taken weeks could now take seconds.

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What is the subscription revenue model? | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. Customers enjoy the convenience of auto-renewals and having access to a high-value offer for a low ongoing investment. Many software companies (us included!) Difference #1: Recurring payments.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

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Ferreting out Suppliers’ “Dirty Little Secrets”

Software Platform Consulting

And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding ! In addition, many of these policies are put in place, suppliers would say, to recover from the abuses buyers heap on them: habitually late payments. virtual card fees piled on an invoice and late payment process. lower-than-promised volumes.

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Software Transcends Borders—Why Not Money?

Andreessen Horowitz

Software is inherently global and easily transcends borders—localizing it can be as easy as translating the language. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Who is the Google of Brazil?