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

Intercom, Inc.

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. 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.

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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. This slide deck comes from Brian’s brilliant SaaSFest 2016 presentation. In 2017, companies will find success by getting back to basics and focusing on the “service” part of Software as a Service.

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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. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

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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 ??.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

” Microsoft 2016 Annual Report You can read more about IDC’s analysis of Microsoft’s channel structure here. Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. Navigating the channel.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer? The first stage is building an organic growth engine. What’s not to like?

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Top PLG Product Manager Roles (+ Candidate Spotlight)

User Pilot

As a lifecycle specialist in B2B growth, youll drive the strategies that accelerate time to value and expansion, rigorously test them, and scale what works. You play a vital role at the intersection of GTM, Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering – reimagining self-service in the age of AI.