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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. Can you describe the process for buying and selling a business from a brand? Jump to highlights.

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Understanding Credit Card Processing Fees for Merchants: How Much Does Processing Credit Cards Cost?

Stax

For a merchant to accept credit cards, they need to pay both credit card processing fees to the banks involved and for the soft and hardware required to process cards. Acquiring Bank (Merchant Bank): The financial institution that establishes and maintains the merchant’s account, enabling them to accept credit card payments.

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Demystifying Credit Card Interchange Fees: What You Need to Know [2024 Rates and Updates]

Stax

Set rate processing Subscription rate processing TL;DR Interchange fees are not collected by your payment processor or bank; they go directly to the card-issuing banks. Interchange fees vary significantly depending on the card issuer, the issuing bank, type of transaction and/or merchant type.

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I Want to Pivot My Personal Brand — 6 Experts Told Me How to Do It

Buffer Resources

  It did mean I went through a very intense period of saying no to dessert (would not recommend), but it also helped me fall in love with exercise (would recommend) — and almost accidentally, build something of a personal brand.  I realized it was time for a personal brand pivot. Naturally, I put it to the experts.

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Underwriting 101: What is Underwriting and Why is it Important?

Underwriting in the payments industry is the process of assessing and verifying potential customers – including adherence to banking, brand, and governmental rules – to protect consumers from entities that want to engage in fraud or other illegal activities by accepting credit card transactions.

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The Meanest Thing VCs Do To Founders

SaaStr

And forget about most bank-style debt financing if your VCs aren’t 100% supportive. But classic venture debt from banks like SVB, etc. Because they are banking on the VCs to at least potentially backstop the company if thinks are tough-ish. This is more common. Next-generation vendors like Capchase, Pipe, etc.

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Dear SaaStr: If You Just Received a $10m-$15m Funding Round, What Should You Actually Use It For?

SaaStr

With $10m+ in the bank, you can start making those hires now. Brand new initiatives take a while to build up to even $1m in ARR. The most important thing you can do at a tactical level is almost always the same: use the capital at this stage to double down on what is working. Even if you really want to enter those areas.

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Everyone Is Accountable and Responsible for a Great Customer Experience!

Speaker: Bryan Horn, Founder, CS Solutions

If you've ever called a bank, cable company, or organization that thinks it's "too big to fail", you've probably run the customer service gauntlet: you start off with a seemingly simple request, and you call the customer service line. Why employee empowerment is a proven ROI and will create lasting customers of your brand.