Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. Inside sales? billion, against almost $2.8

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This evolution has paved the way for subscription and recurring revenue models to emerge as powerful strategies for sustainable growth. This model offers customers ongoing value through regular access to products or services, in exchange for recurring payments.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. billion in revenue from Google Ads alone the year before. As you may have heard, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a competitive game.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although bookkeepers and accountants share some duties, for example preparing tax returns or producing the end of year financial statements, a bookkeeper’s main duty is keeping the basic, daily finances in order. If you are running a small business with subscription revenue, you can monitor all of your finances using Baremetrics.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Web & Applications Kathryn Nuys, Global Head Specialized Industries (Amazon Web Services); Alexandre Assolini, Founder&Executive Chairman (Vortx); Brian Brooks, Founding Partner (Valor Capital) The panel discusses on web3 technology and its applications.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Eduardo Chedid of PicPay shared how the company evolved into a broader financial ecosystem, shifting focus from user acquisition to net revenue growth. The company’s successful turnaround strategy involved launching new monetizable products, price optimization, efficiency gains, and embracing Brazil’s instant payment system, Pix.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. How are we going to do that?

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 23, 2020

HubSpot CRM – Best free marketing CRM Really Simple Systems – Best free sales CRM Agile CRM – Best free customer service CRM Flowlu – Best for SMB finance Apptivo – Best for basic business management. Free Customer Service CRM Software. The Top 5 Options For Free CRM Software. The Limits of Free.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Over the past 12 months there’s been an explosion of new financing options and models made available to companies that feel like us. Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Mucker Capital

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market. Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a specific type of employee, function or division across all industries. So what’s behind this resiliency?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. Companies tend to stick around. There’s a link here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

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Navint

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They use the “swivel chair approach” in connecting people through a transaction’s lifecycle to make up for friction along the way—in getting invoices out, in applying cash, in paying sales commission, in running finance operations, or in paying taxes, for example. You have to think about process. At Navint, we call this Innovate to Operate.

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FastSpring

MAY 15, 2024

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ order to allow app developers to “steer” users to third-party payment options outside of the native App Store. The article points out that according to Epic documents, Apple is still blocking developers from steering consumers to other payment options with lower pricing options.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

“70% of tech companies can expect to fail – usually within just 20 months of their first financing round” ChartMogul founder and CEO Nick Franklin sat down with Intercom’s Kate O’Hanlon to discuss the ups and downs of hypergrowth. But hidden behind this well-trodden formula is a grim reality. Among the leading causes of death?

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