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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Master merchant Payment facilitator that becomes the merchant of record on behalf of a network of smaller merchants (sub-merchants) or billing companies that regularly collect payments; key markets for master merchant networks include government, education, utilities, and nonprofit organizations.

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My Mental Model for the World of Crypto

Tom Tunguz

Tokens might be used as stores of equity value, as a replacement for government money, to pay for a particular service, or simply as as collectible. Exchanges - exchanges are the marketplaces where people trade tokens to determine their value. Protocols are computer programs that decide how digital assets should behave.

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What the Online Advertising World Can Teach Us about the Evolution of Machine Learning in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Which is the viewpoint that will ultimately govern the customer/vendor relationships in SaaS? Online advertising serves as a potential model for how the machine learning software as a service ecosystem might evolve. A third might argue that the customer should actually benefit economically from this contribution.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Funding to Date : $1.3M

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

Sales tax is governed at the state level, not the federal level, so instead of dealing with one set of convoluted tax laws (hi, IRS.GOV), you get to deal with sales tax laws in some or all of the 46 US states with a sales tax. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons. Mark earned his B.A.

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Jonathan Anguelov on Aircall’s $65 million Series C success

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: One of Aircall’s superpowers is that it built an App Marketplace – and then opened it up for partners to build their own integrations. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. How can we provide the best service at every single interaction?”