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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform.

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How to Write Effective Dunning Emails (30+ Examples Included)

Baremetrics

And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. dunning emails) to customers when their payments fail is your best bet at recovering that lost revenue.

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FastSpring Annual Recap: Reflecting on 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021

FastSpring

On average, our customers’ revenue grew by nearly 20% relative to 2019. We experienced the strength and resiliency of the digital ecommerce economy. As the pandemic hit, we, like most businesses, prepared for the worst. For the first time, we will process over ten million transactions in 2020. We acquired SalesRight.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future. I don’t know anyone right now.

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Revolutionizing the Hospitality Industry with Technology Implementation

Valerian Tech

Improving Customer Experience through Technology Delivering exceptional customer experience is paramount in the hospitality industry, and technology plays a crucial role in enhancing guest satisfaction. Increasing Efficiency and Streamlining Operations Efficiency is vital in managing the complex operations of a hospitality business.

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Why Sales Tax Compliance Matters for Growing SaaS Companies

SaaStr

It’s part of doing business! States are consistently looking for ways to generate more tax revenue, and a fast-growing company (or industry) can provide excellent opportunities. Or 2) File sales tax returns online through a sales tax solution that tells you when, where, and what you need to remit.