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You’re Holding Your Business Back If You’re Not Automating These 5 Processes

SaaStr

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. The problem is that businesses are often still manually gathering financial documents come tax time.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Workplace is about connecting people.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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What Is an ACH Payment Facilitator?

Stax

PayFacs typically partner with a payment processor or a bank to provide merchant services. This enables business owners to accept payments directly through their SaaS platform without needing a Merchant ID (MID)—as is the case with traditional merchant account providers. This is pretty much similar to the service that PayPal offers.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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SaaStr Podcast #402 with HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: “Customers Want Value + Simplicity: The Must Haves to Deliver”

SaaStr

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?