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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

As mobile game and app developers gasp for air under a player-gouging 30% duopoly-tax on nearly all mobile game revenue worldwide, Epic Games has emerged as the de facto leader of the gaming community in the fight for open computing on mobile. There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.

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Preparing for Third-Party Audits: Best Practices for Success

Scytale

A third-party audit is an assessment of a company’s internal controls, security practices, or compliance processes conducted by an independent auditing firm. The SOC 2 Bible Everything you need to know about compliance Download the Whitepaper Why Do Companies Need Third-Party Audits?

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. What factors beyond financials makes a target even more valuable. Jump to highlights. My name is David Vogelpohl.

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The Best Payroll Services (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

To help speed up the process, I reviewed six of the best systems on the market and put together a comprehensive list of what to look for as you make your final decision. If you’ve spent some time searching for solutions from Google or asking for peers’ recommendations, you know there are hundreds of payroll companies to choose from.

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Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing for SaaS & Software

FastSpring

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Leave the technical challenges of selling around the world to us.