Business
Business, startups, and economics: founding companies, strategy, marketing, investing, and how markets work.
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How to correctly setup SaaS subscriptions to charge VAT in Europe web.archive.org
“If you think you can just setup a simple Stripe integration and move on, like us, you'd be sadly mistaken.”
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The SaaS Financial Model You'll Actually Use web.archive.org
A complete tour of the financials of a startup, which gives you extra-context on how the metrics you produce fit into the larger picture.
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The Best Payment Gateway for Startups web.archive.org
A benchmark of top payment providers, their pricing and models.
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AI vs Data Science vs Data Engineering web.archive.org
“Data Engineers build data pipelines and infrastructure to ensure a constant availability of transformed data. Data Scientists analyze and build models from these data to develop new product features or drive the bottom line of the business.” As for AI professionals, their…
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The 7 factors to consider when pricing your startup product tomtunguz.com
Pricing is an offensive tool to reinforce your product value and underscore the company core marketing message.
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Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models techcrunch.com
Usage-based pricing is more optimal and more fair: it “allows a customer to start at a low cost, minimizing friction to getting started while still preserving the ability to monetize a customer over time”.
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Pricing low-touch SaaS stripe.com
“In low-touch SaaS, the most common way packages are presented are as different columns in a pricing grid, with each column corresponding to a plan, offered at a different price, with differential access to features or maximum allowable usage along some axis interesting to the…
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Startup financial models - 12 templates compared for SaaS stephnass.com
A great source of inspiration to get better visibility in your operations.
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Quantity discounts on a virtual good: The results of a massive pricing experiment sci-hub.st
“Implementing price reductions ranging from 9–70% for large purchases, we found remarkably little impact on revenue, either positively or negatively.” If discounts are a placebo and are still widely used in the industry, maybe they are a marketing hack to lure big customers?
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The Anatomy of SaaS Pricing Strategy sbigrowth.com
Explain how to articulate the pricing of SaaS businesses around the product strategy.
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SaaS pricing explorer saaspricingexplorer.hyperline.co
A collection of 1000+ pricing pages for inspiration.
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Business Model Patterns reasonstreet.co
A list of 15 different ways to sell products and services.
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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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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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Accounting Memento For Entrepreneurs (US GAAP) odoo.com
An interactive form to play with accounting concepts.
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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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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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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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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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Customized Regression Model for Airbnb Dynamic Pricing kdd.org
This paper describes the pricing strategy model deployed at Airbnb.
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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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Startup growth calculator growth.tlb.org
Simple yet effective interactive profitability calculator for startups.
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GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide gnucash.org
A complete tutorial on personal finance tracking with GnuCash.
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What is FinOps finops.org
A framework for tech finance and business leadership teams to share the same language and processes of cloud operations and management.
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Universal Business Language en.wikipedia.org
Most invoicing software can read and write UBL documents (XML) for data transfer.
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So, you want to learn Bookkeeping! dwmbeancounter.com
Focus on the daily operations of recording and maintaining the transactions of a business.
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Optimizing payments with machine learning dropbox.tech
Describes a classic payment workflow, then how machine learning can replace hard-coded business rules and fine-tune the payment failures/retries loop to increase the success rates of charges.
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A Survey of Profit Optimization Techniques for Cloud Providers cs.newpaltz.edu
“The strategy of improving user service quality is discussed first, followed by the pricing strategy for cloud resources to maximize revenue.”
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Product Development as Iterated Taste commoncog.com
AWS sacrificed the simplicity of subscription pricing for S3 and went instead with a safe cost-following strategy because they had no clue how the users will use their service.
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The Games People Play With Cash Flow commoncog.com
“Malone created a new accounting metric, something he called ‘earnings before interest, depreciation, and taxes’, or EBITDA.” This is how a cable company CEO made sense of cash flow, like real-estate business did. The article starts with this example and describes other cash…
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Cargo cult data science blog.richardweiss.org
“Data science is best viewed as a form of company culture, rather than a set of technologies. However, many firms will try to create that company culture by acquiring data-science technology, rather than working on their culture.”
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Digital Ocean's Update on Customer Shutdown Incident blog.digitalocean.com
Aggressively shutting down user servers is good from a business point of view to prevent fraudster abusing free resources, until it's not.
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Reconciliation: A game designed to frustrate the player bam.kalzumeus.com
“Reconciliation is a business process which arises almost entirely because of a lack of structured data in the pipelines that convey money between businesses”. There are some hack to streamline the process, like adding an arbitrary discount to produce unique trailing decimals…
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“The key idea of our algorithms is to use pricing signal to regulate user demand. One may argue that such an algorithm gives poor service to the user as it pushes tasks out of the queue in order to maximize cloud broker's profit.”
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Axial - Business models archive.ph
38 models for inspiration.
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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy abovethecrowd.com
A bit of vocabulary: “In a casino, the term rake refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. (…) While casinos use the term rake, a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue…
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16 Startup Metrics a16z.com
The 2 critical metrics being Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow goodreads.com
Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns.
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Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy goodreads.com
A set of business tools and patterns from an engineering point of view.
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Thinking in Systems goodreads.com
An essential introduction into system thinking. It helps the reader to understand the fundamentals and introduces several system traps and how to overcome them.
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software goodreads.com
Strategic patterns to understand complex domains and how to model them based on the impact on the business competitive advantage.
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Gitpod Strategy gitpod.notion.site
Gitpod purpose, vision, and strategy.
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Flutter in 2022 Strategy flutter.dev
Flutter annual strategy document for 2022.
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Emergent Platform and Evolution in Sociotechnical Systems esilva.net
How platforms emerge from business challenges and the different types of teams like enabling and platform teams collaborate with stream-aligned teams to create the space and opportunities for platforms to evolve.
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Engineering Strategy on Discord discord.gg
Discord community focused on Engineering Strategy.
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Delivering on an Architecture Strategy blog.thepete.net
Describes strategic architectural initiatives, a framework which allowing product peeps and techies to make progress on big technical improvements via aligned autonomy.
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