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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development. Self-built billing systems can prove inflexible and resource-intensive, to the point where we’ve worked with businesses that spend 200-300 hours each month getting their books compliant with accrual accounting rules.

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From PLG to PLG+SLG – How Lucid Scaled to 70M+ Users

SaaStr

It also required them to: Negotiate their first Enterprise customer contract Undergo deep security reviews Once you land your first Enterprise customer, it might be time to build that first sales team. Lucid hired someone with a business background under a special project.

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

SaaStr

Basics: The Building Blocks of the Finance Team To understand how finance teams impact an organization, it’s helpful to break down various functions and how they support the business. This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B.

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

FastSpring includes global payment processing and recurring revenue management, of course, but the platform also takes care of the end-to-end checkout process, including optimization of your checkout flow, collecting and remitting sales tax and VAT, localization, fraud prevention, global compliance, and more.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach.

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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. Horizontal SaaS companies develop and provide software for a specific function used by companies across all industries.

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An In-Depth Guide to Subscription Billing Platforms (+ 5 Options)

FastSpring

Legal compliance. Plus, you’ll need to consider whether or not the billing platform supports businesses like yours. Plus, FastSpring takes on the liability of transactions, which means we manage chargebacks, fraud prevention, gathering and remitting consumption tax, and legal compliance. Fraud prevention and chargebacks.

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