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Embedded Payments in 2024: A year in review for platforms | Episode 44

Payrix

The world of Embedded Payments saw remarkable developments in 2024, shaping strategies and innovations across the industry. While this trend offers businesses a way to offset processing expenses, it has also drawn increased scrutiny from regulators and brands. This underscores the need for meticulous adherence to regulatory frameworks.

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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. What factors beyond financials makes a target even more valuable. Jump to highlights.

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7 Drivers in Building to a $7 Billion Company with 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner and 1Password Advisor Carilu Dietrich (Pod 556 + Video)

SaaStr

You iterate and develop your products according to your customers’ needs, which first requires you to listen to them. With great product and customer support teams in place, you are ready to do this. These customers become your brand ambassadors and drive your growth organically. Profitability is power.

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Doubling Down: Jay Levy Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures

SaaStr

The company provides a platform for brand and audience protection via social media comment moderating. The company focuses on moderating and removing hate, toxic, damaging, and spam comments from a brand’s online presence across the major social media platforms. The FOMO by investors we saw in 2019-2021 no longer exists.

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GTMfund’s 3 Areas of Focus for Investing

Sales Hacker

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. Constantly leveraging our GTM LP community network to diligence new businesses and verticals better.

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8 Proven tactics to increase your social commerce sales

Unbounce

A big part of ecommerce is using social media to engage audiences and build an authentic brand. Instead of using business social media accounts only for user engagement, social commerce allows brands to take advantage of their captive audience with shopping abilities built-in to their posts. Online sales are expected to make up 22.3%

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8 Customer Discovery Questions to Validate Product Market Fit for Your Startup

Tom Tunguz

Customer knowledge, both qualitative and quantitative, informed product development, and that research became a key part of AdSense’s success. A few years later when I joined Redpoint, I learned that venture capitalists perform similar customer research during diligence. How important is this product compared to other software?