Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. For many current large language models, once they are exposed to domain-specific challenges or niche inquiries—like in-depth product troubleshooting or compliance-related questions—they can stumble. Follow along to stay up to date!

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The conversation unpacked notable trends, challenges, and opportunities for software companies navigating this dynamic landscape. Takeaway #2: Inflation and surcharging compliance Ella highlighted the rising importance of surcharging as a response to inflation and escalating operational costs.

Payments 130

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 130

USIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Enhancing Vendor Relationships with Data Insights Digital disbursement platforms often come equipped with analytics tools that provide valuable insights into payment trends. With a focus on security, compliance, and scalability, Usio empowers businesses to manage payments efficiently while fostering strong vendor partnerships.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Its proprietary technology simplifies the employment process by managing the complexities of local compliance, labour contracts, payroll, benefits and taxes. We enable companies to manage their distributed teams via a simple dashboard while taking responsibility for local labor law compliance on their behalf.

Cloud spend optimization 263

Cloud spend optimization AWS Scale compliance 263

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This is essential for compliance with privacy and data protection regulations like GDPR or CCPA. Other analytics features, like funnels , custom dashboards, page flow analytics, segmentation, or trends, are available as add-ons. Privacy and compliance features for sensitive data protection. Trends and Retention Analysis.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Software Review AI 105

SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2023

We’ve had Fractional CFOs for a very long time, and perhaps they inspired the trend. They usually come in and handle compliance and oversight for an existing finance team that perhaps lacks the seasoned experience to handle models, venture capital and debt, prepare for an audit, etc. But Fractional CFOs are often different.

Sales Hiring 328

Sales Hiring Venture Capital Scale Finance 328

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. There were also quite a few questions around cost and compliance. And on the latter - there will be more guardrails and structure in place to appease some of the compliance questions. Follow along to stay up to date!

AWS 299

AWS Cloud AI Search Cost optimization & reporting 299

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Eyal Manor: Yes, so one trend I’ve been observing in the past two years is first of all is the rise of containers and the rise of Kubernetes. So one trend is just containers, Kubernetes and how that auto scales in a very seamless way wherever you are. What about compliance? Where is your storage? How is data being managed?

Cloud 173

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 173

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2024

Plus, these teams face longer sales cycles and need things like SOC 2 compliance. Enterprise customers need single sign-on, data encryption, AI-driven security shields, and compliance with industry standards. #3: Be able to respond to trends as early as possible. Those aren’t things you can prepare and turn on immediately.

Scale 288

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Enterprise 288

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Current market trends in Asia that can affect expansion and the challenges associated with those market trends. In simple terms, we handle everything from payments to fraud management, to custom support and tax compliance, so that sellers can focus on growing their business. Jay Jia (03:29) Exactly, exactly.

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 192

SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2024

If all your data resides in one place, you and your analysts can make smarter decisions to engage with people at the right time based on behaviors you can recognize through trends and analysis. How do you multi-thread internally or navigate the complexities of security and compliance? How do you best build and respond to an RFP?

Scale 316

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Technical Review 316

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2025

It helps quantify customer behaviors on a larger scale to uncover user trends and correlations. Ensure legal compliance: Obtain security certifications, like SOC2 Type II, and ensure industry-relevant compliance, such as with GDPR or HIPAA, all of which Userpilot’s security standards provide.

SaaS 83

SaaS Social Media Interviewing Scale 83

USIO

MAY 13, 2024

A fast paced digital world is where things are trending towards and people who own businesses are always seeking ways to help bookkeep more efficiently. Receiving the highest level of security and compliance with Nacha standards. This can be especially beneficial for urgent or time-sensitive payments.

Payment Methods 264

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 264

User Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

In HubSpot’s consumer behavior trends report, 72% of consumers said they’re more likely to make purchase decisions with a brand they can trust their data with. But when you think about this and all the trends that are happening right now, how can your business catch up? How should we deal with customers in this situation?

Trends 104

Trends Technical Review Software Review Social Media 104

Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2025

Navigating these changes requires businesses to adopt compliance-focused billing software and automated subscription management tools that ensure adherence to legal standards while maintaining operational efficiency and customer trust. How Billing Automation Supports Compliance Billing automation is a cornerstone of regulatory readiness.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription Management compliance 52

Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

Information brokers to help traders understand market trends, compliance tools, tax software, protocol debugging tools, even smart contract insurance. In both cases, a person seeking to transact must pay to authenticate the transaction to a group of miners or stakers, people who own computers and perform this math for a fee.

Outsourced Development 266

Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service Banking Construction 266

Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

The merchant underwriting process helps reduce fraud (including chargeback volume), ensures compliance with regulations, and protects financial stability in the payment processing space. Key steps include application review, risk assessment, credit checks, and compliance verification. Learn More What is Merchant Account Underwriting?

Merchant Services 68

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 68

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Here’s what Userpilot brings to the table: Access to session replays directly from trend charts, funnels, or user profiles (just like Mixpanel). Data masking for privacy compliance with GDPR, HIPA, and SOC 2 type II. ‹ › Userpilot lets you filter your recordings and get access to them directly from user profiles and reports.

Software Review 105

Software Review Enterprise Pricing compliance 105

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Frustration indicators and trends Pendo detects frustration indicators like rage clicks, which point to potential UX issues. Pendo uses AI to analyze product usage data and extracts the top 3 insights about rage clicks, usage trending down, and usage trending up. Pendo session replay playback controls. What are they?

User Experience 105

User Experience AI Pricing Trends 105

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

I spend a lot of time researching software trends in vertical software, compliance, and AI. We have a total of $1.8B under management across the firm, and we are currently investing out of an active $460M growth fund. We are a deeply research-driven firm and invest in what we call ‘automation for the real economy.’

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Scale 279

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. The list goes on. There are so many others.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

Trends like usage-based pricing , complex provisioning , industry consolidation , and evolving regulatory landscapes are reshaping how businesses operate and thrive. This comprehensive playbook ties together the key strategies and industry trends driving success in 2025, offering actionable insights for scalable, profitable growth.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Subscription AI Search compliance 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They learned the importance of sales tax compliance the hard way—when they had to pay millions in back taxes. Accounting Today’s Roger Russell reports that local sales taxes are likely to trend up in a post-COVID world, as states and cities look for ways to dig out of debt. It’s not hard to understand how Basecamp got this wrong.

New CTO 232

New CTO SaaS Sales CTO 232

FastSpring

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re looking to optimize your payment processes, expand into new markets, or simply curious about the latest trends in gaming monetization, FastSpring is here to help. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games! Go D2C with confidence.

Payments 147

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 147

USIO

JULY 25, 2024

Boost Security and Compliance Security is a critical concern for any enterprise handling payments. These services ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations, protecting sensitive data and reducing the risk of fraud.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

No one needs the 11th most boring article on compliance. At SaaStr Annual, Lemkin will do a deep-dive opener on SaaS trends of 2023. At SaaStr, Lemkin has written one post a day since 2012, and it used to be two pieces. That’s just under 10k pieces of content from just the founders. The Learnings You have to do it at an elite level.

Outsourcing Services 291

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting 291

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This technical integration guide provides a recap of current industry trends, an overview of FastSpring’s solution for video game monetization as a merchant of record , technical details for implementing FastSpring with your game, and stories from other happy game devs and studios who are already succeeding on FastSpring.

Payments 126

Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 126

Blulogix

MARCH 12, 2025

Manual invoicing is inefficient and error-prone; automation ensures accuracy and compliance with billing standards. AI-powered insights can help businesses predict usage patterns, optimize pricing, and minimize revenue leakage. Automate Billing & Invoicing to prevent revenue loss.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features AI Search B2B AI 59

FastSpring

MAY 16, 2024

Immerse yourself in a diverse array of programs, workshops, and presentations, where industry experts will share their wisdom and cutting-edge trends will be unveiled. We’ll manage your checkout , VAT and sales taxes , compliance , and more, freeing you to focus on what you do best: building great software.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 158

FastSpring

JUNE 20, 2024

Immerse yourself in a diverse array of programs, workshops, and presentations, where industry experts will share their wisdom and cutting-edge trends will be unveiled. We’ll manage your checkout , VAT and sales taxes , compliance , and more, freeing you to focus on what you do best: building great software.

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 147

Blulogix

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The increasing complexity of subscription billing, driven by trends like metered pricing models and hybrid subscription structures , has heightened the risk of revenue leakage. It reduces manual errors, ensures compliance with complex pricing structures, and enables businesses to scale without losing operational efficiency.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Revenue Scale Operational efficiency. 52

Scytale

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s why achieving ISO 27001 compliance has become a top priority for organizations serious about safeguarding their information assets. In this guide, we’ll break it all down, exploring the best ISO 27001 compliance software for 2024. Document Control Managing documents effectively is a big part of ISO 27001 compliance.

compliance 52

compliance Software Government Management 52

Scytale

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s why achieving ISO 27001 compliance has become a top priority for organizations serious about safeguarding their information assets. In this guide, we’ll break it all down, exploring the best ISO 27001 compliance software for 2024. Document Control Managing documents effectively is a big part of ISO 27001 compliance.

compliance 52

compliance Software Government Management 52

USIO

JUNE 3, 2024

Compliance and security are paramount in payment processing, as it involves handling sensitive customer data. Usio comes with built-in compliance features, such as PCI-DSS certification, ensuring that all transactions are secure and meet industry standards. Usio generates a wealth of data that can be leveraged for strategic insights.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 130

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now OpenAI Updates OpenAI had their big developer day this week, and I wanted to call out two key announcements (and trends): increasing context windows and decreasing costs. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 190

Cloud Artificial Intelligence GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI 190

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It involves a strategic approach to understanding, projection , and optimizing revenue streams while maintaining compliance with financial standards. Revenue projection should be dynamic, continuously updated as market conditions and customer trends evolve.

Revenue 52

Revenue Management Underperforming Technical Team compliance 52

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From customer expectations, to market trends, to business operations, everything is evolving. Compliance It is challenging to scale your business, and tap into your desired markets without considering local and international regulations. Navigating the world of compliance can be very demanding.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Revenue 52