SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Marketplace partners.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? The chart above contrasts the pace of investment across the two markets by sector measured by % of total dollars invested anually. This may be a breakout category in 2016 for Series A investments.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s simply about which areas startup founders feel like they may be coming up short, not doing enough, or missing the mark.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

5 Critical and Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups with Y Combinator : Anu Hariharan , Managing Director at Y Combinator, will share key learnings from top B2B startups and how these pivotal lessons help founders build in any sector. How should marketing, sales, and product all work together? GET 20% OFF!

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. from Astella Investimentos, Spectra Investments and others. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. .

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

AUGUST 11, 2020

In another article, I shared the secrets that startups need to differentiate their services with a good landing page. It starts by asking (and answering) these 5 questions in order to arrive at your startup key differentiator Who is my target market, audience or niche? Landing page lessons from 20 Nigerian startups.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I had spent the previous 15 years running my own local lawn care company, and I knew from experience both how difficult it was for a homeowner to get a reliable lawn mowing service and how challenging it was to make a living mowing yards. I felt a technology platform could solve this problem for both sides of the marketplace.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders. The trio eventually joined forces to found Outing , a social marketplace where users can discover, book, and plan group outings.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. But once they’re happy with a service, they can help build trust with new customers as well.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. There are two popular brands used in the CRM and customer service space – Zendesk vs Freshdesk. It equips the sales, marketing, and customer service teams with the necessary tools. Freshdesk is suited for small businesses that want a basic CRM.

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The Angel VC

APRIL 11, 2016

For some reason we keep finding great early-stage SaaS startups in France, and it's not because of my command of the French language. In the last few years we've invested in four awesome SaaS companies from France: Algolia , Front , Mention and Critizr. Something is clearly going on in France, and we like it.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

The initial concern of every ambitious entrepreneur is to keep their startup costs as low as possible. Several best startup tools and resources help minimize startup costs, but they also assist in saving precious time for savvy business people. What if you can get your hands on the best tools for startups?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 25, 2024

We found a way to test the market before we dove in Before we purchased a single neon sign, I placed ads on Gumtree and Marketplace to see if there was interest from potential customers, using generic neon sign imagery I found online.   Still, we didn’t want to invest too much upfront.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. So, was about number 20 at Twilio.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market. In short, those are SubscriptionFlow’s two biggest sources of attraction in the already saturated marketplace of SaaS billing.

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ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

EY, TrustRadius, G2, SIIA CODiE, and APPEALIE have recognized ChurnZero’s platform, team, and customers in areas ranging from technological innovation and customer success services to the strategic vision of its senior leaders. ChurnZero has quickly become one of Washington, D.C.’s For more information visit [link].

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 25, 2024

We found a way to test the market before we dove in Before we purchased a single neon sign, I placed ads on Gumtree and Marketplace to see if there was interest from potential customers, using generic neon sign imagery I found online.   Still, we didn’t want to invest too much upfront.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Differences and similarities between Latin American/Brazilian startups and Silicon Valley startups are discussed, with a focus on challenges related to data ownership, regulatory and intellectual property rights, and fostering innovation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem. In their case, it meant targeting logistics companies whose messaging and notifications strategy were a great fit for Messente’s service. Expand with your customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? There was a small startup scene. Rob Gonzalez: And so, a lot of people that were doing computer science in Williamstown were thinking about startups back even in the late nineties.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook. When Workplace became a real thing at Facebook, I was in London.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are plenty of “non-tech” companies that purely manipulate bits; as an example, virtually every financial services company is “atom free” in terms of ultimate products sold. How many small Shopify merchants might want the exact same service? Inside sales? billion, against almost $2.8 The curves simply do not meet. All of them!

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps refers to succeed through your own efforts without relying on investments or help from anyone else. Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. Basecamp is a bootstrapped company, for instance.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

We got started in 2008 when we first spotted this sort of new place in investing, which we called seed. At the time, there may be four or five other firms doing this same strategy of investing somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million into companies that were just getting started we would call it pre product market fit.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 8, 2023

For companies in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, this is particularly true. Why expert help is essential in growing your SaaS brand When it comes to growing your SaaS business, it can be challenging to determine which areas to prioritize, especially if you’ve hit a plateau or are running a startup.

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