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Why I Love Usage-Based Pricing rdegges.com
“The most important reason I like this pricing model is that it heavily incentivizes both the customer and the service provider to act in everyone's best interest.” Also details issues with other pricing models.
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Pricing pages design pricingpages.design
A collection of pricing pages from various SaaS companies, to get inspiration on how to present your offers.
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Practical Business Python pbpython.com
A blog collecting and spreading ideas on how to use Python more effectively in the business setting.
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Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management papers.agoric.com
Paper exploring the “mechanisms for the allocation of processor time and storage that are compatible both with programming practice and with market mechanisms.”
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Forecasting: Principles and Practice otexts.com
“Comprehensive introduction to forecasting methods and to present enough information about each method for readers to be able to use them sensibly.”
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OpenTimestamps opentimestamps.org
Go beyond the solution above, and timestamp immutable document directly on Bitcoin's blockchain.
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Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems openlibrary.org
Advanced abstract algebra applied to the analysis of accounting systems.
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Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers openlibrary.org
Allows you to fully understand how to use financial data to make better decisions for your business.
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Accounts Demystified: The Astonishingly Simple Guide To Accounting openlibrary.org
Helps you learn how to analyse and monitor your company's financial performance.
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Open IBAN openiban.com
🆓 Free and public IBAN validation and calculation webservice.
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Accounting Memento For Entrepreneurs (US GAAP) odoo.com
An interactive form to play with accounting concepts.
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Pricing Psychology nickkolenda.com
Which numbers should you use? How high should it be? Should it be rounded? This guide has 42 tricks to help you choose the best price.
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19 Tactics to Solve the Chicken-or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace nfx.com
“Which comes first, the supply or the demand? Chicken or egg?”
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GCP Preemptible VMs vs AWS Spot Instances news.ycombinator.com
“Google's prices are fixed, whereas AWS uses a market model”.
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What does the "Reverse Charge" refer to? news.ycombinator.com
Answer: a provision in which a business transfer the responsibility of VAT handling to the customer.
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source news.ycombinator.com
) - Mechanical Turk's rake was “20% (…) on the reward and bonus amount”, with a minimum fee of $0.01 per bonus payment, so a 7-cent bonus is billed one cent instead of 1.4: an effective 14.3% instead of 20%. The requester's round_payment() snaps every payout onto the 5-cent…
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Method to check if you swapped 2 digits news.ycombinator.com
Standard manual accounting trick employed when isolating an error in a double ledger.
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) - Google Ads used to implement a concept of capped actuals. A kind of monthly budget with rollover, which is an optimal billing scheme to limit surprises for customers. It always looked to me as a way to sell quotas.
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) - The direct filiation between old-school university mainframes and current cloud services.
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Patents on billing systems of the dot-com era news.ycombinator.com
All of them have been abandoned and constitute prior art. This means there is nothing to prevent anybody to implement or commercialize these concepts.
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“Designing billing for a service can be really challenging” news.ycombinator.com
Personal anecdote on the design of the pricing plan for AWS Simple Email Service.
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) - Which allows them to claim the VAT on processing fees as input tax.
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) - Simple explanation of the bidding mechanism.
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High failure rate of Point Of Sale devices in the upper Midwest news.ycombinator.com
The root cause? People wearing a lot of wool in low humidity air, generating a lot of static.
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Use-cases for cloud services news.ycombinator.com
The reason usage-based pricing makes even more sense for cloud services: to optimize ROI, keep all regular workload in traditional architecture and reserve cloud computing for elastic and experimental projects.
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On GCP invoiced billing news.ycombinator.com
Invoiced billing is a B2B-friendly payment happening after the service is consumed and an invoice issued. It seems to be a pain to setup on GCP but I suspect is a consequence of trying to reduce (costly) fraud.
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) - Users are seeking more transparency on the spot market.
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Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide neildavidson.com
Huge and complete collection of pricing scheme, with their psychological effect and impact on revenue model.
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Monzo's bank transfers post-mortem monzo.com
Or why you should be prepared for and work around gateway provider's outages.
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Changing the Pricing Model monkeynoodle.org
A couple of ways to re-license your product.
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How to Build an Insurance Company moderntreasury.com
The importance of payment ops architecture.
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An Overview of Visa minesafetydisclosures.com
Great breakdown of Visa business models and metrics.
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Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud mc4f.ee
“We examine the economics of demand and supply in cloud computing. (…) These results explain why fixed prices currently prevail despite the seeming need for time-varying dynamics. Examining the actual CPU utilization provides a lens into the future. (…) demand fluctuations…
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Tutorial on multiple currency accounting mathstat.dal.ca
An excellent resource for implementing multi-currency accounting systems.
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Ten Ways Your Data Project is Going to Fail martingoodson.com
You don't need data scientists. “For ETL, hire data engineers. For reporting, hire BI analysts. The end.”
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Accounting for Computer Scientists martin.kleppmann.com
Describes how to view accounting in the form of graphs in which money flows, then how these movements are materialized in the financial statements of a small company.
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Time Series Prediction - A short introduction for pragmatists liip.ch
Great introduction on how time series can be used to evaluate business problems.
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Constrain the marketplace lennysnewsletter.com
; Decide which side of the marketplace to concentrate on; Drive initial supply; Drive initial demand. A 4-parts series with dozen of interviews of people with direct experience building and scaling marketplaces.
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How credit card thieves use free-to-play apps to launder gains kromtech.com
To prevent abuses, service provider must strengthen both credit card verification and the account creation process.
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CEO Fraud knowbe4.com
A billing team responsible for collecting payment is prey to this kind of fraud, in which the CEO is impersonated to commend exceptional payment transactions.
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Pricing niche products kevinlynagh.com
“The most compelling argument against simply picking a price, though, is that it limits how much you can learn about your market.” Then the author setup vickrey auctions to discover price.
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Customized Regression Model for Airbnb Dynamic Pricing kdd.org
This paper describes the pricing strategy model deployed at Airbnb.
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20 years of payment processing problems kaimi.io
A huge collection of everything that went wrong, and still is, with payment APIs from the past 2 decades. Any issue exposed in this article that gets unaddressed will end up as stolen money.
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The coupon code is a slap in the face justinjackson.ca
Point the negative consequences of users encountering a blank coupon field without having a coupon. See the update at the end of the article with research backing up this anecdote.
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Thinking about growth and profit jlongster.com
Discuss the relationship between investments, profit and growth, and how it influence decisions on pricing, free trials and plan structure.
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Invoice Security Vulnerabilities invoice.secvuln.info
European Union introduced a "standard" in XML format, which comes with a set of security vulnerabilities.
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Never Use Floats for Money husobee.github.io
“This is precisely the problem we have when trying to represent 10^-1, or 0.1 in binary. There is not an exact binary representation of 0.1 or 0.01.”
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The Eternal Cost Savings Of Netflix's Internal Spot Market highscalability.com
When you're big enough that creating an internal secondary market for instances makes economic sense.
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Dynamic Cloud Pricing for Revenue Maximization henryhxu.github.io
“Amazon's spot price is unlikely to be set according to market supply and demand. Rather, price oscillates within a very narrow band most of the time, which is more likely to be an artifact of some pricing algorithm with predetermined reserve price.”
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