Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. Adjust your pitch to meet the tone of the marketplace. Take that action.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 79

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The number of apps created by independent developers was steadily growing, so in 2009 the Atlassian Plugin Exchange was born, which evolved into Atlassian Marketplace by 2012. The Marketplace today is a professional app discovery website, generating $300 million in purchases annually. Distributing Midori apps where users live.

Payment Solutions 47

Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

In 2017, companies will find success by getting back to basics and focusing on the “service” part of Software as a Service. In a self-service SaaS, you rely on customer success drip emails to generate your upgrade revenue. Freckle Time Tracking launched in 2009 and 7 years later, it’s pulling in close to $800k in ARR.

Scale 152

Scale SaaS Marketplace as a Service SMB 152

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. What needs to change? How does one create and retain accountability and ownership at scale? * What has changed? What is it?

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 142

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We can do the private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), Kate: There is a company that we’ve been working with for just about a year where we’ve actually deployed all of our services – they’ve gotten the full suite of benefits. They had to make their own.

Scale 149

Scale Leadership Scaling Venture Capital 149

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. That visualization, we’ve just opened up the marketplace.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Funding to Date : $1.3M

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual.

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

SaaS – Software-as-a-Service – is an umbrella term referring to a range of technologies and tools that facilitate the processing, storage, and management of big data using remote servers. The US market has high demand and supply of SaaS service providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Anita Nielsen. Anne Slough. Beth Sunshine.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. This is the classic marketplace model, but it isn’t exclusive to marketplace models. And how does it play out in real life?

Innovation 105

Innovation Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 105