July and August are approaching. The months when pretty much everyone in Europe takes time off. So I'm curious how other founders here handle it.
A lot of founders end up taking their break during this window simply because it's when their kids are out of school and their partner's schedule lines up too. On top of that, many B2B companies see slower activity during these months anyway, so it makes sense to step back when there's naturally less happening.
I'm researching a question facing AI-agent businesses: when two customers pay the same subscription, how do you know whether they're equally profitable?
Agent workloads can vary significantly. Complex tasks may require more model calls, tool usage, and retries, even when the price paid by the customer stays the same.
I'm interested in learning how AI founders and finance teams handle this today.
Do you measure gross margin by customer?
How do you account for differences in workload complexity?
Are your existing billing and cost-monitoring tools sufficient?
SoundCloud went live 18 years ago as a launchpad for independent artists to share their music. Now, it s adding more tools for listeners to share what they re into.
The music streaming app, which ranks above streaming stalwarts Pandora and Apple Music in terms of monthly average users, introduced new social features on Thursday, including:
I have created a lot of accounts on many different payment gateways including lemonsqueeay, paypal etc. Now I realize, it was just a waste of giving information to those companies as I do not use them at all. Paypal even suspended my account permanently. I came across this platform called dodopayments, and it wasn't very strict on completing kyc for accepting your first dollar. I know that it will not let me withdraw money unless kyc is done. I was very confused as to what everyone does regarding this? What do you do commonly with these payment gateways?
I saw seven hours of video about AI income challenge. However, I bought VIP ticket but the content was available for all viewers.
There was only 5-10 testimonies which were shown again and again to increase FOMO. Finally, i understood that tactics as EARN WITH FOMO AND PRESSURE SALES ENVIRONMENT.
I don t know I was wrong or right. What should I do should I buy or not ?
Any other suggestions
When we launched our SaaS, the vision was simple: build a product, charge a monthly subscription, and scale infinitely. We wanted that sweet, sweet recurring revenue.
But we hit a wall early on. Our product is complex, and users kept asking, "Can you just set this up for us?" or "Can you build a custom integration for our specific workflow?" Because we were desperate for cash, we said yes to everyone.
I just finished our monthly financial review, and it was a massive reality check:
Total Revenue: $10,000
Software Subscriptions: $3,000 (from 60 users)
Custom Consulting & Setup Fees: $7,000 (from just 4 clients)
