Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

With this faster method of calculating, what might have taken weeks could now take seconds. Early KKR executive Donald Herdrich is said to have bought an Apple IIe in 1980 for his children, got a demo of VisiCalc at the electronics store, and that turned into a decisive advantage for KKR going forward. The curves simply do not meet.

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VP of Engineering AI Payment Methods Generative AI 94

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. When price is most important to customers, they sacrifice quality. Just look at airlines.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In the streaming-video realm, Netflix , Hulu , and HBO all provide high-quality entertainment for a low price. Access to products: personal care, food, pet care. Difference #1: Recurring payments. Unlike one-time purchases, subscription payments happen on a scheduled basis—most often each week, month, quarter, or year.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. When price is most important to customers, they sacrifice quality. Just look at airlines.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding ! By the way, the list of retailers who have paid penalties when the shelf price did not match the checkout price is too long to detail here.). virtual card fees piled on an invoice and late payment process. More Dirty Little Supplier Secrets.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services Payment Methods 40

Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

As consumers, we can order almost anything online in a few clicks: books, taxis, cars or manicures, you name it. Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services.

Marketplace as a Service 83

Marketplace as a Service B2B Payments SaaS Payments 83

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. Show Introduction [00:09].

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It could be pricing, a lack of a certain feature, poor support or anything else. For instance, as a content marketer, one of the things I do on a daily basis is see what websites have linked to our site to find opportunities to partner up on content or just to send a quick email to say thanks. You can also find them in Baremetrics.

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Retention Payment Methods Payment Solutions Churn 104

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Robert Vis: So, I was working on my previous company called ZayPay, which was an API to pay for virtual goods on your mobile phone bill, and we ran into this problem where we needed to use text messaging as a way to verify user’s phone numbers. Then we couldn’t process the payments. What are your thoughts?

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Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Robert Vis: So, I was working on my previous company called ZayPay, which was an API to pay for virtual goods on your mobile phone bill, and we ran into this problem where we needed to use text messaging as a way to verify user’s phone numbers. Then we couldn’t process the payments. What are your thoughts?

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Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 16, 2017

Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. This is a man whose greatest quotes include many disparaging remarks about the airline industry (see here ). So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Oligopolies Extend Well Beyond Airlines.

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Payments Airlines Payment Solutions Software 40