FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

Merchant Services 134

Merchant Services Payments Subscription Payment Features 134

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.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? What is Walmart Marketplace? Why Should I Sell on Walmart Marketplace? It’s all about moving with the times.

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Marketplace as a Service Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services 145

Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

73 percent of hiring managers plan to continue or boost their reliance on freelancers. What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? While LinkedIn is no stranger to connecting individuals with available job openings, LinkedIn Marketplace aims to connect freelancers with contract opportunities. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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Marketplace as a Service Payment Methods Payments Social Media 144

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Intellum Platform includes all the tools an organization needs to create, manage, track and improve highly-personalized learning experiences for customers, partners and even employees. Take advantage of automation to manage your security assessments and NDAs. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services PayFac as a Service Payfac 234

IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple’s growing status in enterprise IT expands just a little more with news that cross-platform device management company JumpCloud,now offers its service via Amazon’s AWS marketplace. Identity, platform agnosticism, and the future of IT.

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AWS Marketplace as a Service Enterprise Marketing 96

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

We had a great one last time with Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital. It’s not the biggest one but we’re very proud of our investment in BuildingConnected, a SaaS plus marketplace company that sold to Autodesk. Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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IT World

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Federated Wireless is launching a turnkey 4G/5G service through a partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure that runs over Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), which the Federal Communications Commission opened up to public use in January. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So everyone knows Salesforce, founded in 1999, originally to manage your salesforce. But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. Managed to Make the Most of Virtual Events. It’s still around, too.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. Interested? Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

Payment Methods 119

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Services 119

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

Scale 221

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 221

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

As such, PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed. PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nina Herold, EVP & General Manager of TripActions Travel, shares insights into her team’s tactics to tune into customers’ needs throughout the product experience. Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. Uber and Lyft bring rides to you with the touch of a button.

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Travel Scale Management Marketplace as a Service 192

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping 80 million people every year make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. It’s the everywhere workforce, working together.

Payment Services 251

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments Embedded Payments 251

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. Google manages one of the world’s largest advertising market places. They provide software to publishers, the supply side, which manages available ad inventory with a product called DoubleClick for Publishers, or DFP.

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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 companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. What are SaaS companies?

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The country recently published guidance requiring providers of electronic services — select digital products and services — to register for VAT if they meet certain criteria and thresholds. Foreign e-services provider requirements What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services? What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services?

Payment Services 140

Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 140

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.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. Do I hire local managers? Or do people report into managers in HQ?

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Outsourcing Services Scaling 73

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. Net net, even from SMBs, Upwork manages 100% NRR, just as Shopify and Hubspot do from SMBs. A good take rate for a marketplace.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is the blog to read if you are a business owner trying to manage your transactions more effectively. The first is an accounting software that streamlines your business’s operations (such as managing invoices) and the latter is a payment processor that helps your business process the transactions it needs to make. What is Square?

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. The main difference between product management and project management is the focus.

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Management Interviewing Marketplace as a Service Product Marketing 100

Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Get started for free → How to make money on Instagram Jump to a section: Partner with brands on sponsored content Livestream and earn Badges from fans Offer paid subscriptions Sell your own products and services Take up affiliate marketing Sell digital products Develop and teach a course Join Instagram’s Creator Marketplace 1.

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Payments Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 95

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? Automation , in this context, emerges as a critical tool, enabling businesses to effectively manage customer relationships from initial engagement through to retention and beyond.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Services Revenue Management 52

User Pilot

JUNE 29, 2023

This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. There are many fantastic examples to draw from across the SaaS marketplace. Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it.

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Management Technical Review Software Review Customer Support 91

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service. Grocery delivery immediately became an “essential service” and all digital grocery players in the U.S. billion to $20.7

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

And who manages the ecommerce team that creates a seamless online customer experience? Yep, the Ecommerce Manager gets to do it all. Essentially, an Ecommerce Manager oversees all online activities and maintains the company’s brand on all digital properties. So, let’s get into how an Ecommerce Manager gets it all done.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions Outsourced Development 78

Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

SimpleCirc stands out as a noteworthy option when looking into subscription management software because of its intuitive user interface and effective subscriber data handling. Say you are a small online marketplace owner whose product links customers and independent artists.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 88

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Are you looking for Zendesk integrations to boost the efficiency of your self-service customer support? SmileBack is a feedback app designed for helpdesk solutions so you can evaluate your customer support services effectively. As of 21 July 2023, there are 1,503 integrations in the Zendesk marketplace.

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Marketplace as a Service AI Search Social Media Customer Support 85

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers just joined the parade of software companies going public. The Fiverr filing sets up a comparison of Fiverr versus Upwork, the grand-daddy of freelancer marketplaces. Upwork Versus Fiverr: A Different Approach to Services. We call this the Service-as-a-Product (“SaaP”) model.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review SMB Web Development 40

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

FastSpring enables game developers to get paid for direct purchases of games and in-game transactions without having to go through a larger marketplace, but with many of the benefits of using a marketplace — for a much lower cost in many cases.

Payment Methods 129

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Merchant Services 129

Sales Hacker

MAY 16, 2022

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. When do you have 15 minutes on Friday or Monday to chat about our service? Subject line: integration marketplace. Will’s Rewrite.

Mobile 77

Mobile Marketplace as a Service Growth Marketing Engineering 77

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Not having exemplary sales leadership: The sales lead should not just manage the dashboard efficiently. Mistake 4: The lack of enablement .

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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue Marketplace as a Service 245

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But, with up to 1 million ISVs crowding the $528 billion cloud services market by 2027 , vying for the most strategic route to meet your customers’ demand depends entirely on how well an ISV navigates the ins and outs of channel sales. To assist you with this all-important self-assessment, CloudBlue is introducing our Channel Maturity Scale.

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Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Cloud 286

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

For the first time in a decade, IT services will become bigger than communication services in 2024. Gartner estimates that by 2027, nearly all of the growth in worldwide IT spending will come from software and IT services. As I said, that SKU has outsold any other new introduction we put into the marketplace.

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Cloud Marketplace as a Service AI Subscription 161