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The Key To Unlocking Profitability and Growth in SaaS with Expensify’s COO Anu Muralidharan

SaaStr

Incredible product market fit isn’t achieved by simply tinkering with your product and user experience in a lab behind closed doors. Channel partners said if they couldn’t do a 30-day balance, it was dead in the water. If someone still isn’t self-serviced, they go to a live agent. The 30-day balance was more “desirable.”

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Social Media Automation Strategy: 10 Tasks You Can Automate

Buffer Resources

Put simply, social media automation is outsourcing the repetitive, manual, and sometimes boring tasks in your to-do list to software. Let’s dig into the meaty stuff now and talk about the actual tasks on your never-ending to-do list you can outsource to a software. I’m still pining for a few.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Outsource Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting. Outsource undifferentiated heavy lifting. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Infrastructure as a service is now standard, as are Platform and Software as a service. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups.

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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

Payrix

However, companies must look beyond basic payment integration to evolve into platforms offering comprehensive services. The experience imperative A recurring theme in the episode was around experience being central to successful payment integration. For software companies, delivering frictionless user experience is critical.

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The ultimate implementation guide for software payment processing

Payrix

Especially as software companies turn their focus to optimizing the user experience, there are advantages to expanding platform capabilities with software payment processing. Embedding payment processing capabilities directly into a platform, however, grants software companies greater control over the payment experience.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. ISVs, or Independent Software Vendors, are businesses that develop and distribute software products to end-users. Consider Stax’s partner program.