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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

SaaStr

Rapid expansion and new service integrations negatively impacted net income. Circle’s story is a reminder that adding new products, markets, or services can actually destroy profitability if not carefully managed. Before expanding, ensure your core business has strong unit economics that can subsidize new initiatives.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

” Weavi Founded in 2020, they anticipated the growing importance of unstructured data and embeddings. Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. Product-led growth (PLG) motion applies well to AI-powered products.

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You’re Holding Your Business Back If You’re Not Automating These 5 Processes

SaaStr

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Sage Intacct is a popular choice for automating bookkeeping because it includes features unique to the SaaS business model.

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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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Is a Freemium Business Model Right for Product-led SaaS?

SaaSOptics

A free trial is often seen as the quickest way to get customers signed up and using a SaaS product/service, but it comes with several strings attached. What Does Freemium Mean in Business? A freemium business model allows companies to build up a large initial user base at no additional costs. 30 or 60 day trial period).

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. billion from 2019 to 2020. billion to $20.7

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25% of B2B SaaS Sales Are Headed to Cloud Marketplaces

OpenView Labs

In February 2020, the public cloud market surpassed a $1 trillion market cap, with a 45% growth rate, as reported in Bessemer Venture Partners’ 2020 State of Cloud report. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .