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

Stax

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Managed marketplace: a network model that facilitates transactions between supply and demand by processing payments and ensuring quality of transaction by establishing trust e.g. Etsy, Ebay, Airbnb. Early on, when Gilad joined Eventbrite, accepting payment and selling tickets online was still the biggest challenge for event creators.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Stripe vs. Zuora: Features, Pricing, Reviews, and More

Baremetrics

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Rich Developer Toolkit For organizations with the right technical chops, Stripe gives developers the power to put their own touch on payment processing, with tools such as Stripe Elements, Stripe Sources, and Stripe Connect.

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How to Choose SaaS Billing Software

Baremetrics

The benefits of a well-thought-out process includes increased visibility to your revenues, expenses, and cash flows, and a faster feedback loop to make your forecasting more operationally focused. Many SaaS startups don’t have truly unique billing needs, but can be serviced by most major SaaS billing tools. This is not a deal-breaker.

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Square’s Rohini Pandhi on spotting and solving customer problems

Intercom, Inc.

Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. Product management is about solving problems.

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

We’ve done the hard work and this article will guide you through the otherwise arduous process of finding the best website builder. There are a multitude of reasons to want to start a website and they will affect the services and features you will need. Some teams may also respond much quicker than others. Ease of use.