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. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Soon afterwards, instead of paying a one-time fixed price to use the software, customers subscribed to access the software. You can’t buy Quicken or Quickbooks on a CD for one fixed payment anymore. Airlines benefit by winning greater predictability, fewer delays, and consequently greater profitability.

Airlines 111

Airlines Payment Services Business Payments 111

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. In the streaming-video realm, Netflix , Hulu , and HBO all provide high-quality entertainment for a low price. Many software companies (us included!) Difference #1: Recurring payments.

Payment Features 74

Payment Features Payments Subscription Revenue 74

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.

Payment Solutions 40

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services Payment Methods 40

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. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Horizontal e-commerce solutions like Alibaba and Amazon Business have made great strides, but sector-specific solutions are only just beginning to take off. If we look at B2C marketplaces, they generally build software for the supply side (the B in B2C). The same applies when there is a concentrated supply base.

Marketplace as a Service 83

Marketplace as a Service B2B Payments SaaS Payments 83

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It could be pricing, a lack of a certain feature, poor support or anything else. In fact, you probably use a ton of apps and software right now that you couldn’t function without. ContentKing is an app that monitors your website for content changes and SEO issues. Just ask all the major airlines and credit card companies.

Retention 104

Retention Payment Methods Payment Solutions Churn 104

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. If you give me that solution, I will pay for it.” Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

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). Loving our podcast content? billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Then we couldn’t process the payments. Should it be a row your own race or should you actually be quite cognizant of what your competition are doing, how they price, they go to market here? Robert Vis: So we built it ourselves, and that sort of kick started the entire company. What are your thoughts?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Then we couldn’t process the payments. Should it be a row your own race or should you actually be quite cognizant of what your competition are doing, how they price, they go to market here? Robert Vis: So we built it ourselves, and that sort of kick started the entire company. What are your thoughts?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 16, 2017

The recent news reminds me just how many markets are becoming oligopolistic–especially those dominated by platform software. Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Software Platform Oligopolies.

Payments 40

Payments Airlines Payment Solutions Software 40