Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

The phrase “dynamic pricing” often sparks heated debates in eCommerce and retail, and it’s not hard to see why. If you’ve ever booked a hotel, ordered an Uber, or shopped on Amazon, you’ve experienced the effects of dynamic pricing in real-time. Prices may shift down or up at a moment’s notice.

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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. First, companies can forecast their revenues much more accurately because customers commit to paying for a specified period of time.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Doing so generally requires building in additional trust, workflow tools and, in some cases, a shift away from traditional commission based monetization models. As a result, the stakes are much higher: a single bad transaction can damage the business and reflect poorly on the supplier.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies. Meanwhile, companies offering subscriptions can scale with confidence, with predictable revenue and deeper relationships with their customer base. What is the subscription revenue model?

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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? Oligopolies Extend Well Beyond Airlines.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

TL;DR Surcharges are additional fees consumers pay on top of the base price of goods or services. Surcharges are diverse in form and purpose to serve businesses across sectors. Several types include credit card, fuel, service, payment processing, peak-time, environmental, regulatory, and minimum usage surcharges.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Milken himself is said to have credited (or blamed) VisiCalc and spreadsheets for the growth of the Private Equity (PE) industry, since cash flows vs. debt payments could be easily monitored, and a formerly complex net present value calculation now just involved a formula for a cell. What about complicated corner cases?

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Stax

MARCH 12, 2024

But in reality, companies often have to spend considerable time and resources chasing down late payments that are stuck in Accounts Receivable. Promptly collecting payments from your customers is essential to run a sustainable business. In fact, 81% of large retailers say that real-time payments are critical to their operations.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin.

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BitPay

MAY 8, 2023

Businesses from every niche and corner of the world are noticing. Here are some of the most well-known companies accepting crypto as payment and what’s driving the adoption. 6 Major Companies Accepting Crypto as Payment Accepting crypto payments as a business isn’t just for the tech-focused industries.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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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. mislabeled fish. Justification?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Now before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Unlike other companies I’ve worked with, a huge part of our growth strategy here is focused on retention and expansion (increasing revenue through upsells). In fact, you can see just how much of our revenue comes from existing customers versus new ones here. Just ask all the major airlines and credit card companies.

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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). Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Loving our podcast content?

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User Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

Theyre powerful revenue engines. But heres the real question: how can you increase app revenue and claim your share? Well cover: Seven time-tested monetization strategies. How to choose a model that generates reliable revenue and empowers your mobile app users. This article aims to provide a practical guide.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Your customers dictate the way they want to talk to a business. Robert Vis: Businesses have to reach their end users on a growing amount of end points. Our platform abstracts the complexity of a really difficult experience and makes it simple.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Your customers dictate the way they want to talk to a business. Robert Vis: Businesses have to reach their end users on a growing amount of end points. Our platform abstracts the complexity of a really difficult experience and makes it simple.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In the last few years, we have witnessed digital wallet apps taking over the market, especially after Covid 19, and cashless payments became all the rave. Almost all of us are acquainted with the best digital wallet apps and use them daily for online shopping, bill payments, and splitting with our friends. And why would they not?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

And with the rise of industry-specific platforms (vertical SaaS) tailored to niche needs, one-size-fits-all software is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Staying ahead of these trends isnt just a techie obsession its the key to keeping your business competitive and scalable in a fast-paced market. Sounds like a dream, right?

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