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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

For best practices, integrate it with your other systems, offer flexible plans for optimized cash flow, and ensure data security compliance to industry standards. These are only a glimpse of what automated SaaS billing software brings to the table for a subscription-based business model.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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Stripe Vs. Recurly: Which one Should You Choose?

Baremetrics

Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Then test, repetitively, your business model for what works. Now that you better understand how to handle your subscription business, you can apply this knowledge as you read this article. Which do you choose? 9% of the revenue you take.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In fact, more than 80% of Americans in the last year bought through Stripe, but obviously through a business that ran on Stripe.

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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. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

While their target audience and the breadth of their solutions are the key differences, vertical and horizontal SaaS also share many similarities, in particular cloud-based hosting and subscription business models. Similarities Between Vertical and Horizontal SaaS Horizontal and vertical SaaS businesses can overlap in certain areas.

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. So Bela, you founded the growth team.