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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

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In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

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Recurring Billing: Definition, How it Works, and Best Practices

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Recurring billing is a subscription payment model that automatically charges customers at regular intervals for access to a product or service. This business model is used for subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other solutions offered on a recurring basis. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

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

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In practice, this means that unlike in PCI DSS and other compliance regulations, companies need not cover all the five above. To answer this question in simple terms, you determine this by customer requirements, core business requirements the system covers and management decisions. Personalized SOC 2! Now that’s snazzy if you ask us!

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Everything You Need To Know about Merchant Processing and How To Choose the Right Solution for Your Needs

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Let’s assume the customer’s preferred payment method is a credit card: The customer makes a purchase and presents their credit card to the merchant. Creating a merchant account allows you to receive credit and debit card payments, which are crucial for businesses today. How do you ensure PCI compliance for client transactions?

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

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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. What is Vertical SaaS? What is Horizontal SaaS?

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Clouded Judgement 11.10.23 - OpenAI Updates + Datadog Gives the All-Clear?

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There are many limiters here - data security and compliance are big ones. At the end of the day, these large language models are quite expensive! Either way - it’s clear these models are becoming cheaper and more effective, which is an exciting future for AI! But even more important right now is cost.

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Understanding Credit Card Processing Fees for Merchants: How Much Does Processing Credit Cards Cost?

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Choosing the payment processor and other items in your credit card processing tech stack will depend entirely upon your business model. The steps to process a credit card transaction Step 1: Authorization Request The process initiates when a customer presents their credit card for payment.