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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

The role of finance in SaaS is changing. No longer are finance teams the traditional “bean counters” of ages past. IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. Sign up for free.

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SaaS “Industry-Centric” Business Models

OPEXEngine

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

Stax

ISVs create software platforms for various industries, including business management, healthcare, and finance. There are two main ways that an ISV can become a payment provider—by adopting the ISO model or the PayFac model. The ISV has little control over the end user’s payment experience or the processing costs.

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Managing Your Facility and Tools to Automate the Process

Andreessen Horowitz

If you’ve drawn on a line from your venture debt facility, money has been wired to your business banking account. Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. What happens now? We’d like to wrap up by focusing on how to manage debt post-closing.

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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. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Five SOC 2 Trust Service Principles

Scytale

Processing Integrity: Certifying error-free processing and timely delivery of data, vital for sectors like finance where accuracy and consistency are paramount. In practice, this means that unlike in PCI DSS and other compliance regulations, companies need not cover all the five above. Personalized SOC 2!

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Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Aligning Financial Transactions with ERP Systems

Blulogix

Accurate Financial Reporting: Integration ensures that financial reports generated from the ERP system accurately reflect all billing activities, crucial for internal analysis and regulatory compliance.