Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2013

When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. The payments systems are in place, the integrations with airlines and taxis and inventory systems and physical things like locks exist. IRL apps require radical simplicity in their design. In Web 2.0,

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2020

It makes sense because the way these big ad networks make money is through an auction system. Opportunity #3: Conversions are down, but there’s a solution. Delta Airlines is currently burning $60 million a day. Delta Airlines is currently burning $60 million a day. Opportunity #2: Paid ads are really, really cheap.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Soon afterwards, instead of paying a one-time fixed price to use the software, customers subscribed to access the software. You can’t buy Quicken or Quickbooks on a CD for one fixed payment anymore. Airlines benefit by winning greater predictability, fewer delays, and consequently greater profitability.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Today, you don’t even have to exit the app. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. This infrastructure helps businesses provide financial solutions, such as digital payments, directly on their websites or mobile apps.

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Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Finance 88

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Dynamic pricing systems refer to pricing models where the price of goods and services fluctuate based on a range of factors. Together, these strategies have paved the way for more sophisticated and responsive dynamic pricing systems, which use machine learning to make thousands of pricing decisions per minute.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Instagram Data Portability Users can now transfer their Instagram media to Google Photos and other services, enhancing data management across apps. Enhanced User Verification In a bid to combat bots, Twitter/X is introducing payment, phone, and ID verification along with a $1/yr fee for new users.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is how surcharges have become a staple solution, and they’ve helped businesses stay afloat in the sea of overheads. Several types include credit card, fuel, service, payment processing, peak-time, environmental, regulatory, and minimum usage surcharges. Payment processing surcharge. Every transaction has a cost.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 16, 2017

The recent news reminds me just how many markets are becoming oligopolistic–especially those dominated by platform software. Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Software Platform Oligopolies.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s the payment and billing process. In the news here today, there’s an airline I won’t name that canceled over 2,500 flights over the past couple of days. I talked about this airline a moment ago. And about 30 minutes before the webinar was about to start, the webinar software wasn’t working.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), Lockheed Martin makes F-35s by assembling atoms, and has a 13% gross margin; Salesforce makes software by assembling bits, and has a 74% gross margin. With this faster method of calculating, what might have taken weeks could now take seconds.

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BitPay

MAY 8, 2023

Here are some of the most well-known companies accepting crypto as payment and what’s driving the adoption. 6 Major Companies Accepting Crypto as Payment Accepting crypto payments as a business isn’t just for the tech-focused industries. AT&T AT&T is just one of the utilities companies enabling crypto payments.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Horizontal e-commerce solutions like Alibaba and Amazon Business have made great strides, but sector-specific solutions are only just beginning to take off. If we look at B2C marketplaces, they generally build software for the supply side (the B in B2C).

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Stax

MARCH 12, 2024

But in reality, companies often have to spend considerable time and resources chasing down late payments that are stuck in Accounts Receivable. Promptly collecting payments from your customers is essential to run a sustainable business. In fact, 81% of large retailers say that real-time payments are critical to their operations.

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Panintelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Embedded Fintech involves integrating advanced financial technologies directly into a financial institution's website, app, or other business processes. This includes innovations such as blockchain, Artificial Intelligence , and Machine Learning, which enable more sophisticated financial services and solutions.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. Many software companies (us included!) now offer their software on a subscription basis (SaaS) instead of as a one-time purchase. Difference #1: Recurring payments.

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Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding ! In addition, many of these policies are put in place, suppliers would say, to recover from the abuses buyers heap on them: habitually late payments. virtual card fees piled on an invoice and late payment process. lower-than-promised volumes.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With a background in the dynamic airline industry, I transitioned into small business ownership ten years ago, where I became intimately involved in marketing tasks. This can be achieved by unlocking the store entrance, operating a payment tool, or providing proof of address.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Eventbrite offered a simple, vertical specific solution to the problem. Just look at airlines.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. If you give me that solution, I will pay for it.” Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 20, 2022

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses use a cloud-based technology distribution model to deliver software. By using two local transfers instead of one international transaction, the system completely avoids costly international payments. The Sequel is a well-known insurance and reinsurance software provider in the UK.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

” Because it might make us more money, like, let’s say, charging a fee for checking our bags on the airline, but it also might have the adverse effect of irritating a lot of customers who may decide to go do business elsewhere. You’re probably in charge of the different payment methods that your company accepts.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, you probably use a ton of apps and software right now that you couldn’t function without. ContentKing is an app that monitors your website for content changes and SEO issues. No matter what type of software you sell, there are always competitors looking to create something better. Easier said than done, I know.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). Loving our podcast content? billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

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Payment Methods Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 113

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In the last few years, we have witnessed digital wallet apps taking over the market, especially after Covid 19, and cashless payments became all the rave. Almost all of us are acquainted with the best digital wallet apps and use them daily for online shopping, bill payments, and splitting with our friends.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Then we couldn’t process the payments. And at the end of day, I’m a consumer so I run into that all the time, whether I’m talking to my airline, or whether I’m talking to my Internet provider, or whether I get a package delivered. That’s a really hard problem to fix, and that keeps me up always.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Then we couldn’t process the payments. And at the end of day, I’m a consumer so I run into that all the time, whether I’m talking to my airline, or whether I’m talking to my Internet provider, or whether I get a package delivered. That’s a really hard problem to fix, and that keeps me up always.

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Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 113

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

In just the past few years, weve watched Software-as-a-Service evolve at breakneck speed, transforming from a neat cloud-based delivery model into an essential driver of business innovation. It feels like every tool from your CRM to your accounting software now comes as a service. Curious about whats next for the world of SaaS?

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