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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. The marketplace is designed to cut down on the time you need to sell your business and find startups to invest in. Each seller provides key metrics to give buyers an accurate idea about the sustainability of their business. Micro Acquire. Key Features.

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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. Prospects were confused over how the marketplace worked and the sales team struggled to explain it.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

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. Talk: SaaS Crystal Ball: Revenue Performance Metrics.

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Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. It was actually late 2012, early 2013 where we looked at the growth. The marketplace was doing well. We looked at the numbers, and in 2012 early 2013 when we said, listen. It was healthy.

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

SaaStr

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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

SaaStr

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Jason Lemkin: That’s a good metric. Tiago Paiva: Yeah.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with B Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — February 7, 2020

SaaStr

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities. You know, we want to understand the thinking, the thought process of these teams.

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