OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

These companies have figured out a new paradigm: They are using scale to generate the benefits of leadership economics for their customers and they are combining an insurgent mission with technology to better understand (and deliver) what individual customers want. Ditto for leaders like Apple, Vanguard and Salesforce. Scale and intimacy.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 40

OpenView Labs

APRIL 28, 2021

Content marketing, in its simplest form, is creating and distributing content in order to build awareness about a product or service. Or is it to build brand awareness, exhibit thought leadership, drive organic traffic, or something else? A community is not the equivalent of a marketplace. Community marketing.

Data 55

Data Marketing Content Marketing Software Review 55

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. Almost every step requires paperwork and postal service, many entail physical presence. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC. but it’s a tradition now).

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. ZeroBounce - Award-Winning Email Validation Service. Originating from customer service, Intercom increasingly are finding their way into the funnel.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. A transactional marketplace like Uber, where riders can actually use it every day for commuting, is very nice. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Two decades later, these two women are blazing trails in design leadership. We ended up having a leadership change that really disrupted the whole organization. It had to be somewhat novel in the marketplace and differentiated and we were decided that sprint was a good idea. Sam Altman (@sama) August 21, 2018.

Scale 149

Scale Leadership Scaling Venture Capital 149

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. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Anita Nielsen. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Shari Levitin.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Story Chief makes it a lot easier to generate inspiring thought leadership content and distribute it to blogs, social networks, influencers, email marketing software and more. Zoom – #1 Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service.

Scale 86

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 86

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 277

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. That's why you'll see that a number of the tools on our list below are not pure email verification services, and others are very much pure. It's one of the most simple and powerful CRMs around to set up - all you gotta do is add data.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Then the following year in 2018, they renamed this class of tools to be SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs). These could be a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), identity provider, IT service management tool (ITSM), or a human resources information system (HRIS). Industry standard best practices in pre-built automation templates.

Management 52

Management SaaS Marketplace as a Service Cloud 52

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

A great way to look at this is through the lens of buyer psychology and the way that products and services get procured in the modern market. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people.

Scale 119

Scale Technical Review AI Sales Hiring 119

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

But ultimately, who we are today and who we have been over the last several years is really a company that’s been able to aggregate unique data sets across the travel industry, and now we’re moving into adjacent marketplaces as well. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? So what do we do, right?

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

The biggest companies on earth spend billions of dollars on this service no one’s ever heard of called freight forwarding and they all hate their vendors. The year of 2018 as a whole was 472 million in sales, but we’re targeting a billion this year. And the reality is we’re in a service business.

Scale 100

Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 100

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I was just at another event in Southern California and the keynote there was Ryan from Qualtrics, the biggest IPO of 2018. We had a marketplace payer solution. Yes, maybe an enterprise in the US for eight billion I’m like, well, the Dutch company literally have a 14 billion, it started, now 22 billion plus.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

Headline: Demonstrate your thought leadership. For example, if I were doing this for my content marketing service, Grizzle , I would ask my clients questions like: What does your current PR system look like? For professional services, there’s a sweet spot. Many SaaS platforms now have their own marketplace.

Sales Recruiting 84

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 84

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

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

On the heels of our 2018 retrospective, we decided to take a look at what product themes and technology are likely to define the year ahead. One of the big success stories for Intercom in 2018 was our app store. A post shared by Intercom (@intercom) on Jul 26, 2018 at 12:00pm PDT. Short on time? You have to believe them.

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