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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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How Generative AI Will Turn Traditional SaaS Models On Their Head with AWS VP of Generative Builders Adam Seligman

SaaStr

The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog. Adam came up with the wildest idea he could think of for an app and used Anthropc, a large language model company, to help develop the idea. All these developers will have agents to help them write faster and faster. What’s the data model?

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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What’s New at Automattic and WordPress with Co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

SaaStr

Speaking of the long game, Matt talks about the launch of the 100-year subscription plan last year. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. He loves subscription models where people pay for something that gives them value.

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How to Choose SaaS Billing Software

Baremetrics

If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business. The Cost of Bad Setup: You Can’t Trust the Data In the early days of Forecast+ , I recall meeting with a founder of a multi-million dollar SaaS company. When a payment comes in, it should decrease.

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Edmond Lau and Jean Hsu on engineering more leaders and better working relationships

Intercom, Inc.

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

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. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.