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There is a rise in the number of payment management services for SaaS based businesses. The growth is good, it shows there is an increasing trend to subscription based businesses online and away from the software or long term licensing. However, many of these SaaS based businesses are just a wrapper around payment gateways. Their value is in the ease at which they enable the software developer to integrate a recurring payment stream. They provide reporting on top of the payment systems but they do little more. They don’t seem to integrate well with marketing efforts. Here’s a quick list of the ones I have checked out.

http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/may2009/ca2009055_933788.htm offers good insight into the the difference between MBAs and Entrepreneurs. It fails to mention how much the MBA curriculum accounts for these differences. During my MBA experience the curriculum focused on measurement, planning, and forecasting. You were given a specific goal and had to come up with the best way to achieve that [...]