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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. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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The Best SaaS Articles of 2016 From Around the Web

Hitenism

2016 has been a year where knowledge has become freely available for anyone interested in knowing about all things SaaS. That’s because the people who are working in the SaaS industry or investing in these businesses are sharing much more of the details about all aspects of growing and scaling a SaaS business.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tom Tunguz

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” To sustain these growth rates, startups like these require lots of cash because of the customer acquisition payback period, and the more tenuous ones need capital to prove the business model actually works at scale. Market fragmentation.

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SaaS Funding Napkin, the 2017 edition

The Angel VC

In less earth shattering news, the fact that it's 2017 also means that my "SaaS Funding in 2016" napkin needs an update. As a reminder, in the original post I tried to give a "back of a napkin" answer to this question: What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016? I won't argue with that.

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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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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

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. Founded : 2016. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services.

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.