User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Main features : Create and deploy in-context feedback surveys (called Nudges ) that appear as subtle pop-ups or widgets on either your web app, website, and their mobile versions. Collect feedback across multiple channels, including email, mobile, web, and even offline. Multi-language support.

Software Review 105

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Zuora

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mobility-as-a Service (MaaS) has […]. The post Why Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) will revolutionise the traditional car dealership’s business model appeared first on Zuora. This article was originally published in Automotive World by John Phillips, GM of EMEA, Zuora.

Business Model 51

Business Model Mobile Automotive Business 51

SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

The move to mobile devices and constant internet access fundamentally changed every aspect of our lives, and AI will have an even more significant impact in how work is done and how we spend our time. I firmly believe that within 5-7 years, the vast majority of code will be written by computers instead of humans.

Management 278

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

Pen & paper or Excel sheets are still used by myriads of people for all kinds of business processes, especially in SMBs. 5) Mobile expands the market to non-desk workers About ten years ago, the number of smartphone users was negligible. Today there are more than two billion smartphone users worldwide.

SaaS 173

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 9, 2018

First, the shift to a subscription business model reinforces customer centricity. Fender wrote a mobile application to help aspiring guitarists learn how to play music within minutes. The mobile application requires subscription, introducing a new revenue model for the business.

SaaS 162

SaaS Subscription Payment Features Mobile 162

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I work with designers and engineers on our mobile SDKs. Those bring Intercom’s features into our customers’ own mobile apps. Mat: A good example of this would be Mobile Carousels, which is a product we launched back in June. It’s a really unique way to communicate with people who use your mobile app.

Mobile 212

Mobile Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 212

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Here’s how the process works: Customers place the order: Shoppers purchase goods online through the retailer’s mobile app or website. BOPUS can also boost traffic to your online website or increase the number of downloads for your mobile app. How to Have a Successful Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Business Model.

Branding 132

Branding Mobile Sales Hiring Business Model 132

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Payment processing systems help merchants accept various types of payments, such as credit and debit cards, automated clearing house (ACH) , electronic funds transfers (EFTs), digital wallets, mobile payments, and even cryptocurrencies. These systems are widely adopted in eCommerce, mobile apps, and contactless payments.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

USIO

JUNE 10, 2024

Understanding Payment Integration Payment integration refers to the process of incorporating payment processing capabilities into your business systems. This enables you to accept various forms of payment, such as credit cards, digital wallets, and bank transfers, directly through your website, mobile app, or point-of-sale (POS) system.

Payments 130

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2019

There’s a bit of a dirty truth in freemium and VSB (Very Small Business) recurring revenue apps: a lot of folks pay and don’t use. It’s almost core to a lot of freemium business models. Well, RevenueCat has the real data, at least for mobile subscriptions. And thus, in many ways, get ripped off.

Data 138

Data Subscription Payment Features Mobile 138

The Angel VC

MARCH 13, 2014

Note that this is a most likely an analysis for a mobile app and the numbers for your SaaS solution should be significantly higher: (click for larger version) Moving horizontally you can see how the retention of a cohort decreases over the users lifetime. Q: Now that I have it, what can I take away from it?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So utility -based software includes SaaS companies that operate very often on recurring business models, while general entertainment covers use cases like gaming, social platforms, and IP -driven content, such as short films. Number one, in terms of the utility -based software, and number two, in terms of general entertainment.

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 192

Unbounce

MARCH 20, 2019

We want to highlight how you can create a page to promote your own mobile app and, as importantly, why a well-designed landing page can make all the difference. Start with mobile. But since apps are designed primarily for phones, it usually makes sense to create your mobile version first. Click here for the mobile one. ).

Automotive 145

Automotive Mobile Subscription Payment Features 145

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

If you own a SaaS or other digital product business such as a Slack plugin, Chrome extension, online publishing business, mobile app, or even a blog and youre looking to exit, you may have a lot of questions about how best to go about it. What got you into this particular business model? And I’ve done that.

Scale 120

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 120

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 4, 2019

I’ve shared a lot about a future enabled by mobile — covering how mobile changes product design, app monetization, and business models to social communication and more. But what we don’t talk about enough in the software industry is the …

Mobile 76

Mobile Business Model Communication Software 76

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

4 Additional Paddle Alternatives Stripe Stripe is best known as an online payment processor that enables you to accept credit cards, debit cards, and mobile payments. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Stripe is not an MoR , but the company does offer add-on products that include additional features such as: Checkout. Digital invoices.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 142

Unbounce

APRIL 7, 2020

In this post, we’ll cover how you can adapt your business model for online shoppers ( without necessarily having to open an entire online shop) and make your first sales with a quick online promotion via landing page. This might be simple or complicated depending on the nature of your business.

Business 144

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Stax

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

From debit and credit cards to Google or Apple Pay, digital, contactless, and mobile payments are on the rise. That’s why for most businesses, it’s almost impossible to make do without a credit card terminal. Finding the right credit card machine that fits your business model, however, isn’t always an easy task.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Expensify is building a mobile-first expense reporting solution with great OCR and a better customer experience. The business model barrier: By radically altering the cost of sales or cost to serve a customer, startups can decimate incumbents.

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Stax

JANUARY 5, 2024

A credit card terminal is a device commonly used by businesses to handle credit and debit card transactions. They can also take contactless payments from mobile wallets. They’re essential for ensuring smooth and secure electronic payments at retail outlets, restaurants, and various businesses that accept card payments.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Casey Accidental

JULY 17, 2023

I thought I would actually write down a lot of those thoughts and add some more depth for founders and employees working on these businesses. Don’t worry I got more marketplace content on the way as well Shortly after I got into tech, investors started to fall in love with subscription business models, mostly on the B2B side.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payments Subscription Payment Features 98

Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

It’s the company that pursues an incumbent with faster, better or cheaper solution and in particular a solution that cannibalizes the incumbent’s business model typically because of a lower cost structure. The last mover is the agent of Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma embodied.

Travel 113

Travel Engineering Mobile Acquisition 113

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. The games industry has a cost problem.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Investment Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service 93

Tom Tunguz

MAY 5, 2013

Kenny van Zant drew this diagram for me on white board and I think it’s the best visualization of how SMB SaaS freemium business grow. The diagram highlights a few important mechanics of the SMB SaaS business model. Counterintuitive Point #3: Freemium Businesses Reverse the Hunter and Farmer Sales Roles.

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The Angel VC

JUNE 13, 2014

It's a number of smaller and bigger factors, which, combined with a slick mobile app, make Uber a highly habit-forming service: Speed: In San Francisco, Uber has such a large number of drivers that no matter where you are in the city, it rarely takes more than 5-10 minutes until your car arrives. What is it that makes Uber so compelling?

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Payment Methods 104

Subscription Flow

JUNE 27, 2024

Recurring Payment Option Quickbooks Payments offers an automatic recurring payments feature , especially useful for subscription-based business models. Security and Compliance Features Quickbooks Payments ensure that confidential information such as your business’s financial data and customers’ payment details are safeguarded.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 98

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Mobile phone use has increased by more than 4 billion since 2015 , most of which can be attributed to the fact that smartphones are rapidly becoming a technological extension of ourselves. Forbes predicts that by the end of 2019, mobile advertising will drive as much as 75% of all digital spend. smartphones. 385% growth through 2021.

Mobile 40

Mobile Marketing Growth Hacking Technical Review 40

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 3, 2019

As the average online shopper begins to favor mobile over desktop, we need to rethink how to create the best mobile online shopping experience. We should be working to create two distinctly different online shopping experiences on mobile and desktop. The truth is this: Mobile retail websites?—?even

Mobile 40

Mobile Growth Hacking Sales Business Model 40

FastSpring

JULY 26, 2024

But then also the business model of games different. But yeah, the calculations are always going to be different based on your business model. David Vogelpohl (23:53) One of my favorite mobile games is a game called White Tiles. It’s just games are… distributed in a bunch of different places.

Development 158

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. We didn’t just phase it away, we didn’t try to sell it, we just shut it down.

B2B 173

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

Stax

AUGUST 29, 2024

The question is: how do payment service providers work and how can you choose the right one for your business? PSPs offer joint merchant accounts and flat-rate processing fees that make them ideal solutions for small businesses that only process payments occasionally. The company also provides a card reader and mobile POS app for free.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. Today, there are almost 80, and that’s because founders have built amazing products on the back of platform shifts in tech—like mobile and cloud—that allowed them to deliver innovative products to many more people, much more quickly.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Innovation Cloud Trends 109

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

Hopefully this will give you some ideas on how to build sustainable growth for your business. Mobilize your influencers to drive customer acquisition. For a viable business, the value of the customer must exceed the cost of acquiring that customer. Want more advice like this?

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Content Marketing 156

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Let’s take the two businesses we’re working with in this guide as an example. It’s clear that their business model is based on sharing content. Is it responsive to optimize for the roughly 50% of people who prefer mobile viewing ? Similarly, Bluehost includes the word “host,” suggesting they are a web host provider.

Marketplace as a Service 137

Marketplace as a Service Software Review Technical Review Business Model 137

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. ISVs and SaaS providers differ in software distribution, licensing models, hosting responsibilities, support options, upgrade and maintenance procedures, and scalability.

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You were CTO at Facebook at the time where social was emerging, and then right when the platform shift to mobile was taking place, right? I’d love your thoughts on what are the similarities to the shift to mobile in this AI wave, and what are some of the big differences? Adam: You know, I think it’s very hard to say.

AI Search 143

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. What people are really looking for is income mobility. They needed something now. And even if there was a small fee attached to that, it just doesn’t matter.

Acquisition 174

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 174