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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Product Market Fit: Finding Your Product’s Place in the Market

ProfitWell

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. He joined us on stage at Recur 2018 to talk about how their team takes a product from concept to launch. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason. What is Product Market Fit? Concept Commit.

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. At LendUp, it was because we were in the subprime lending space and we were trying to not screw people over, unlike the rest of the market. Who has heard of Lambda School, out of curiosity?

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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. When I enter a city or country, who is in charge of that market’s success?

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

What Is Customer Acquisition? Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. What is a Customer Acquisition Strategy? Plain and simple.

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Driving Success for Small to Middle-Market SaaS Companies

OPEXEngine

We typically classify SaaS companies in terms of three customer segments, enabling us to better evaluate their needs: Small/Mid-Market (SMM). In this article, one in a series of three covering each of these SaaS customer categories, we will focus exclusively on Small/Mid-Market SaaS companies. SMM SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Also last year, of the 10 fastest growing Internet penetration markets in the world, 8 of them were in Africa. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. Finally, and importantly, the market size is tiny. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 billion humans will enter the Earth, and 1.2

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