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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Workplace is about connecting people.

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model. Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy. When this happens, fix the product, pivot the business model, or expand the distribution channels. Not always.

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25% of B2B SaaS Sales Are Headed to Cloud Marketplaces

OpenView Labs

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Customer acquisition. There’s obviously hybrid models.