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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves. Based in: Joinville, Brazil. RD Station.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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Miro’s Andrey Khusid on the art of distributed teamwork

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: In 2011, Forbes Magazine called RealtimeBoard (Miro’s previous iteration) “a virtual whiteboard on steroids” We chatted to Andrey about this description to see if the shoe still fits today. Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2011, Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon by embracing the overlooked call center industry. You were founded in 2011. But I had forgotten it was in July 2011. Tell folks what Talkdesk is today, and why Contact Center’s a big space, and is that the same as 2011? Everything needs to be done right now.