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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. In 2019 research firm IDC found them to deliver 869% ROI (??) Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator.

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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. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Platforms-as-a-service.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

The top quartile companies have increased their growth rates from 65% in 2017 to over 100% in 2019, and we’re able to maintain that growth rate in 2020, despite a lot of the headwinds that COVID presented. Cloud Marketplaces. Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever. Product-led Growth.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

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. . The Brazilian platform Superlógica is created with small service businesses in mind. Funding to Date : $6.6M

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[Webinar]: Live Demo of FastSpring’s Full-Service Ecommerce Platform

FastSpring

Successfully selling software and digital products in today’s global marketplace is harder than ever. In fact, according to a 2019 study by Baymard Institute , 80% of companies are at risk of falling behind their competition due to high checkout abandonment and a failure to comply with global regulations.