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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

SaaStr

The “Regulatory Moat” Strategy: Compliance as a Competitive Advantage Circle was the first to receive a New York State BitLicense, which is famously difficult to obtain, in 2015. This early investment in regulatory compliance has become their key differentiator against Tether and newer entrants. The culprit?

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers.

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How to Leverage FedNow

USIO

B2B & B2C friendly: Ideal for consumer-to-business, business-to-business, and government disbursements. SaaS Platforms: Enable Instant Payouts Use Case: SaaS platforms in gig economy, marketplaces, or fintech. Revenue Opportunity: Add value and potentially monetize speed via tiered services. Improve cash flow visibility.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Master merchant Payment facilitator that becomes the merchant of record on behalf of a network of smaller merchants (sub-merchants) or billing companies that regularly collect payments; key markets for master merchant networks include government, education, utilities, and nonprofit organizations.

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News: Brazil Joins Growing List of Countries Calling for Apple to Allow Steering to Payments Options Outside App Store

FastSpring

Cade , the antitrust regulation agency in Brazil, is joining the list of governments and agencies around the world that are telling Apple to allow steering from apps to other payment options than just Apples own, Reuters reports. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!

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My Mental Model for the World of Crypto

Tom Tunguz

Tokens might be used as stores of equity value, as a replacement for government money, to pay for a particular service, or simply as as collectible. Exchanges - exchanges are the marketplaces where people trade tokens to determine their value. Protocols are computer programs that decide how digital assets should behave.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Sales tax is governed at the state level, not the federal level, so instead of dealing with one set of convoluted tax laws (hi, IRS.GOV), you get to deal with sales tax laws in some or all of the 46 US states with a sales tax. . There are a few reasons.