Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Plus, we’ll pull in expert opinions from the likes of FINBOURNE, incuto, Lenvi, Mutual Vision, OnePay, techUK, Starling Bank and Tred for their perspective on Fintech SaaS data security, today. Anne Boden, CEO of Starling Bank, sheds some light on the constant battle against cybercrime. Keen to get started? Let’s jump in.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

Historically, Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure help with the sporadic needs of renting a GPU for a few hours for training vs. long-term use, which would cost thousands of dollars. If someone doesn’t want to switch from AWS because AWS has partnerships with OpenAI, they have tradeoffs. What if you say bank?

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

For businesses that find themselves scaling rapidly, this can prove the be one of the most important factors impacting whether you are able to meet customer demand without breaking the bank. Examples of cost management software include in-platform cost optimization modules like GCP Billing and AWS Cost Explorer. Image source 3.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. This category also includes our office expenses like business insurance, bank charges, and internet and co-working costs to support our team to work wherever they are happiest. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Part 2: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – Payroll with Gusto and QuickBooks Part 3: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – QuickBooks Bank Rules Part 4: How to Choose SaaS Billing Software This post – Part 1 – focuses on how to categorize your SaaS expenses properly by using QuickBooks or Xero, and what are the benefits of doing so.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here are some noteworthy highlights: No hidden fees or personal guarantees Apply in 5 minutes, and a virtual card gets activated upon approval Credits on services like AWS 7x points on remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, GoToMeeting, Gong, etc.) While the card is made for startups, you need to have a high cash bank balance to qualify.

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BetterCloud

JULY 14, 2022

Five months after he was terminated , a former Cisco employee accessed a critical AWS-hosted system. Her petty revenge not only created a huge security risk for the bank, but customers also depending on paperwork and approvals to pay for their homes were left scrambling,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael J. Driscoll. “An

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. We had signed marquee and really distinctive deals with both AWS and Google in the last few years I was at the company. It’s terrific to be with you today. So, I’ve really had 3 careers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

Mercury – Banking. Mercury is a financial technology company that provides banking* made with startups in mind. Mercury’s product also includes integrations, rules, and shortcuts that were engineered to help founders spend as little time as possible thinking about banking. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

When the deal is done, the purchase agreement signed, and the wire lands in your bank account, what happens next? It might be awful. Few founders get to the enviable position of being able to sell their company. Even fewer are ready to deal with the outcome of their decision. Perhaps you’re diving straight into your next venture.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

When the deal is done, the purchase agreement signed, and the wire lands in your bank account, what happens next? It might be awful. Few founders get to the enviable position of being able to sell their company. Even fewer are ready to deal with the outcome of their decision. Perhaps you’re diving straight into your next venture.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Hire a Junior Team You can recruit your junior team from investment banking or other Strategic Finance teams. The title could be “Head of (Strategic) Finance” or “VP of (Strategic) Finance.”

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Working as a apple tech was awful but for the rude customers I would put on hold while I went outside to chat with co workers or grab something from the vending machine. I don't have a thick skin, which probably made it about 15 times worse, but I still can't think about it without having awful flashbacks. What can we learn from this?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. It’s about turning companies into communities.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

I even told the the bank, we never needed the bank. But it sounds like you’re more and I know this is true, but but I’d love for you to talk about it. You’re much more focused on building a company that’s, that’s profitable. And, and then we had to close the company.

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Audacix

APRIL 2, 2022

When encrypting data at rest don't forget unstructured data stores such as AWS' S3 buckets. As a company that has just raised money or will soon be announcing a new funding round, you will automatically become a target for hackers who want a share of your company's newly inflated bank balance. This means applying TLS 1.2

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

What we observed is that an awful lot of top sellers already do this stuff. So we’re in this real fortunate position where we’ve got money in the bank and we’ve got money coming in. As a leader, take the stress and keep it on your shoulders, don’t let it slide downhill.

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Frontegg

JUNE 30, 2021

We will see later that the technologies integrated into AWS allow this difficulty to be quickly resolved. The bank instance is the same for everyone, but that instance has multiple sets of isolated application tables for each tenant. How to Build a Multi-tenant SaaS Application on AWS? Multi-tenant and Data Isolation.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

They had open cores and created enterprise features around it to protect the business model until it got torpedoed by AWS early on. You have to keep money in the bank. Fire yourself by hiring people to do jobs better than you when you aren’t keeping money in the bank and selling the vision.

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

I would hide there 10 times a day" " place my customer on hold for 3 mins and I just stare at the monitor." " Selfishly enjoying the 5-10 minutes of silence when your phone didn't ring" " Constantly looking at the clock during calls , thinking when will it end " "I've worked at the call centre before, CONSTANT ANXIETY AND NERVOUSNESS" " I now work (..)

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s probably that you’re small, you have very little revenue, you have a couple of employees maybe, you’re probably struggling, maybe your bank accounts are stretched, you’re probably incredibly stressed. It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I went to the banks with this idea. It’s brutal.

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

." " I was so jealous of the security guards" "quitting that job was the best decision you ever made" I'd rather work a couple fast food jobs at once before I take another call center job again. "

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If your SaaS is hosted on AWs, here are 47 AWS security controls you can put in place for free. Business requirements vs security requirements SaaS applications, particularly those that are targeted towards FinTech and banking, need to comply with industry-specific regulatory compliance requirements.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. Automated bank feeds : Connect Xero to your bank account for automatic updates and reconciliation, simplifying the management of income and expenses.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That’s why we’ve not only switched our own banking over at GTMfund, but we’ve also partnered with Flex to help companies improve the way they manage their cashflow. One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. Cashflow is the lifeblood of a business.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But over the past 12 months, Open AI’s ChatGPT has gone mainstream, Twitter has become X, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, as did FTX, and WeWork… How many of these did you see coming? What will 2024 bring? We reached out to SaaS founders, operators, … Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

” Bank, please reimburse this charge for me. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. and have a bank account in the U.S. You’re gonna have chargebacks. You’re gonna have extra costs because people are gonna start to say, “No.

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Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. Going the Amazon Web Services (AWS) route? Your SaaS tech stack should ideally be powered by Python, React, and AWS programming combo. What’s it right for? The cost of isolation is put on customers. Related: Common Security Pitfalls of User Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

We’ve done that with a number of software vendors, probably most notably AWS, because AWS is just so expensive that they’re able to offer a pretty big discount to our customers. Bank account underwriting may not be the best for everything, but it’s certainly the best for people that don’t make money.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

An easy next step is to utilize bank rules to auto-categorize individual expenses to their respective categories. For example, Amazon Web Services or AWS in the bank description is very likely to go to Cost of Revenue under Hosting. Now when you have your expense categories set up, you can begin to automate part of the process.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We want to tell anybody that listens, you can save $100,000 on your AWS bill and demos are actually as high as they’ve ever been in late stage tech. We found something that works. Jason Lemkin: Got it. .”

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Direct Bank Feeds. The user can configure and integrate the software with the bank directly, this will ensure real-time and clean transaction feeds from the card provider. The user can reconcile all the expenses with their bank statement in CSV, XLS, or XLSX format for immediate expense verifying. Bank-friendly Export.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s kind of like how, no matter who your bank is, that bank kind of wants to be mint.com, but the experience is never really right. .” I don’t think people have the patience today to have that first wow moment come a little bit later, than they might’ve had the patience for a year ago.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

.” And so, I walked right into his lab, which was doing some of the early work on X-ray crystallography of protein capsids and working to set up the protein data bank. And that’s obviously really important because that protein data bank was the raw data for AlphaFold, which later came in and solved the problem. .”

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing. Jason : The entry point. Jeff : The entry point.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

The easiest way for us to think about it is just if you took eight hours of in-person meetings a day that maybe we previously would have been if we were at a big CPG company or a bank or a retailer or a life sciences company, that whole model has blown up. Is AWS in the lead? Previously, it just wasn’t the case.

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