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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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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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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

There are plenty of “non-tech” companies that purely manipulate bits; as an example, virtually every financial services company is “atom free” in terms of ultimate products sold. United Airlines can’t simply hire and train 10,000 new call center reps in 12 hours when terrible weather shows up, but dynamic compute can solve this.

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Making Trade-Offs In Marketing with Meagen Eisenberg (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you have not set your workforce up to deal with this and you are not online and in the cloud and all the things that we need as employees in a business, you’re making that transformation now. Our suppliers came in, our airlines and hotels came in and started contributing content. It’s a competitive marketplace.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. In 2014, when we met, the cloud was accelerating.

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People & Company’s Bailey Richardson on how to find your people

Intercom, Inc.

Find the people who are 10-out-of-10 passionate about your product or service , because they will evangelize your brand more powerfully than you can do alone. This allows your community to help each other – and often to grow your product or service beyond what you might have imagined on your own. Get to know your biggest fans.