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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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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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My First 16: Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury’s Dimitri Dadiomov

Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

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How To Identify At-Risk Customers & Prevent Churn?

User Pilot

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. Bad customer support: Poor customer support leaves customers without help or thinking their complaints are not taken seriously.

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Reducing Product Risk and Removing the MVP Mindset

Casey Accidental

Every problem should have user research involved at the beginning, aligned on the problem instead of just validating or invalidating solutions. Every engineer, designer and product manager on the team should be involved in defining the problem and the solution. Product development projects always have very high opportunity cost.

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Do SaaS Affiliate Programs Work? [+7 Related Stories from SaaS people]

Incredo

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.