USIO

JULY 14, 2025

Whether you’re building a SaaS product, launching a curated box service, or running a subscription model, embedded payments aren’t just a backend upgrade. Embedded payments are payment capabilities built directly into your digital platform, app, or software—without sending users to a third-party checkout. What Are Embedded Payments?

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USIO

JUNE 24, 2025

Embedded payments have become the financial backbone of modern SaaS, fintech, and marketplace platforms. This guide breaks down the top players in the embedded payments space, comparing revenue share models, payment rails, and — often overlooked but critically important — support and service quality. Print/Mail : Not supported.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 1, 2025

From offering innovative service bundles to managing intricate pricing structures, the ability to provision complex subscriptions seamlessly has become a competitive necessity. In this post, well explore how businesses can simplify complex provisioning and stay ahead in a market increasingly driven by personalized service packages.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This model, also referred to as metered billing, aligns costs with actual consumption, offering customers a fair and flexible way to pay for services. Technology Advancements: Real-time data tracking and billing automation systems now make it possible to implement metered billing models at scale.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are at the forefront of this evolution, leveraging recurring revenue models to build deeper customer relationships and drive growth. Reduce Operational Overhead: Delegating sales and distribution to partners minimizes the resources required to scale. platinum, gold, or authorized reseller levels).

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet. Through numerous acquisitions (ExactTarget, Tableau, Slack, and more), Salesforce built an expansive ecosystem of cloud services.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Modern ATS software automates tedious tasks like job posting, resume screening, and interview scheduling, freeing HR teams to focus on engaging with candidates. From cloud-based SaaS solutions to on-premise enterprise software , businesses worldwide are leveraging ATS technology to build efficient, fair, and scalable hiring pipelines.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. But how do you track and strengthen these connections?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Overview At June we’ve been lucky enough to see a bunch of amazing PLG startups scale and grow their product usage too. For just SaaS products (removing marketplaces, eCommerce, and DTC), the average activation rate is 36%, and the median is 30%. Let’s dig in. So what’s a good activation rate?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. It’s about growing together.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2025

TriNet’s full suite of HR solutions is designed to support companies at critical inflection points – from early traction to scale. Partner TriNet, a trusted HR provider to startups and scaling companies. This episode is a special one, and you’ll learn tactical advice on scaling vertical SaaS companies. Shall shall do it.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 17, 2025

This is where Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software becomes invaluable. In this guide, well explore the top 10 CRM software for small businesses covering both free and paid options. You can integrate email, calendars, and more via the Salesforce AppExchange marketplace. Lets dive in!

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FastSpring

APRIL 3, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. In fact, our framework is called the Sole ID Framework because that is the way to differentiate yourself on the web and really grow and scale your business, I believe. Rachel Gogos (21:48) Yeah, like in the software world specifically.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

The Expert Panel Karen Paige, General Partner at B Capital Karen brings deep operational and investment expertise to B Capital, where she focuses on enterprise software and AI investments. B Capital manages over $6B in assets and has backed category-defining companies across enterprise software, fintech, and healthcare.

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Stax

MAY 6, 2025

While many platforms are built for getting started, not all are designed to support scale. In this blog, well unpack what scalability really looks like in a payment solution and how to choose one that wont hold you backwhether you’re just beginning to start accepting payments or scaling to new markets. Consider the following.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

As a lifecycle specialist in B2B growth, youll drive the strategies that accelerate time to value and expansion, rigorously test them, and scale what works. You play a vital role at the intersection of GTM, Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering – reimagining self-service in the age of AI.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He also co-founded WGI Group, LLC, to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups in enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. he was responsible for the operation of the global advertising marketplaces organization. Why software innovation must start with intelligence, not workflow.

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TrackStreet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Solving Critical Industry Challenges at Scale By combining MikMak’s store locators’ ability to connect brands with nearly 10,000 retailers worldwide and TrackStreet’s monitoring of more than 165,000 websites and marketplaces, this partnership offers brands scale and insights that are unmatched by any other provider.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

That’s not being fair though; we need major players like MS who can deliver necessary, massive-scale platforms, and they need to flog the sexy bits so they can sell the boring ones; no margin, no mission, as they say. Alex Volkov’s Weights & Biases is known for their observability tool Weave. Bad for so many reasons.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

A product leader with 7+ years of experience in product management or a related field who has successfully built and scaled complex systems at a global level. Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers, designers, and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale.

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Stax

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Ensure that the processor you choose can work seamlessly with your existing point-of-sale (POS) system, eCommerce platform, or accounting software. This initial interaction can provide valuable insight into the level of service you can expect once you become a customer.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2025

Do you need a social media monitoring software when you’re able to track everything manually? It’s a place to build a community of people who might benefit from your product or service. For example, the curly hair care brand Fix My Curls faced a scam when a marketplace sold low-quality dupes of their products.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Experience building, optimizing, and scaling programs and teams. Experience building 0-1 products, platform/ecosystem products, or marketplaces. Requirements 6+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of successfully launching and scaling platforms. Experience in AI , machine learning, or related fields.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Now more than ever, an independent software vendor’s (ISV’s) path to profitability depends upon the strength of their go-to-market strategy. By doing so effectively, you can unlock a path to scaling profits. To assist you with this all-important self-assessment, CloudBlue is introducing our Channel Maturity Scale.

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USIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Two prominent solutions that have emerged in recent years are integrated payments and Payfac-as-a-Service. Integrated Payments: Integrated payments refer to the seamless incorporation of payment processing capabilities within existing software or systems. This can be particularly advantageous for software platforms and marketplaces.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. As a result of this, marketplaces have exploded in growth, and here’s some facts and figures.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scale-ups are exciting. Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. On top of considerable dedication, creating a scale-up requires a functional edge—a unique and unreplicable capability compared to the players in the industry.

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Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

Data as a service (DaaS) is becoming increasingly popular. What Is Data as a Service (DaaS)? Data as a service uses a cloud computing strategy to make business data readily available to stakeholders and third parties. What Are the Benefits of Using Data as a Service Tools? Who Benefits Most from DaaS Tools?

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. While the overall category of Virtual Events software is in a funk, Cvent did OK. #2. 70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. It’s still around, too.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Platforms-as-a-service. Key takeaways.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

Never let it be said that SaaS can’t generate a lot of cash at scale. #3. I’d argue No until you are at scale. But once you are at scale, they can have a massive impact. #4. Transition to Cloud takes time at scale. Transition to Cloud takes time at scale. 5%+ pricing increases help fuel growth.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

From our experience providing integrations to thousands of customers, here are the three key business process automations to help your growing company scale faster: 1. They also won’t scale with your company’s growing amount of SaaS apps. Quote-to-Cash. Point-to-point (P2P) integrations are typically built for a specific use case.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

New Relic, provider of real-time insights for software-driven businesses has this formula figured out. Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. Want to see more content like this?

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

The thinking is that every successful software product will eventually be commoditized because it attracts lots of people who will copy the product and offer it for a lower price. The latter option will get particular attention this year, so I highlighted that in the "Defensibility" row of the napkin. I won't argue with that.

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