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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? René: I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, half a dozen businesses, each for parents and grandparents, and all of them serving small businesses since the ‘60s.

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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. It’s one of the top 3 pain points of mid-market and enterprise CFOs.

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What is Product-Led Innovation? Strategies, Examples, and More

User Pilot

Data-driven decision-making in product-led innovation uses data to guide product development , ensuring decisions enhance customer success. Prioritizing user experience optimization in product-led growth is crucial for creating intuitive, enjoyable products that retain customers and drive revenue growth.

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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. After digging into the platform and appreciating its capabilities, she found OpenAI.

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Card-Present Tokenization: Keep Customers Happy and Accept Credit Cards with Zero Friction

Stax

They value seamless shopping experiences that allow them to buy quickly and effortlessly, regardless of platform or location. This applies not just to the purchasing experience but also to payments. Essentially, you’ll be able to reuse that token to process payments and refunds later on. Consider the following.

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Sequencing Business Models: So You Want To Be A Platform?

Casey Accidental

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms.