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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

Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers.

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What the Online Advertising World Can Teach Us about the Evolution of Machine Learning in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

With machine learning, we may see another evolution of this. Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers. Unlike the first wave of SaaS software, machine learning startups benefit from the data their customers share with them. And that initiative met some success.

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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. What makes a SaaS business so hard? You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service.

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SaaS Funding Napkin, the 2017 edition

The Angel VC

That concern isn't new, of course, but given how crowded most SaaS categories have become by now, investors are increasingly looking for additional ways to build moat around a business. For what it's worth, I know AI and Machine Learning are a hyped topic but I think the hype is justified. Enough words.

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A sneak peek into Point Nine's investment thesis

The Angel VC

We will continue to focus on two business models: SaaS and marketplaces SaaS We use a broad definition of SaaS. Marketplaces Like in the case of SaaS, we use a broad definition for marketplaces. For us, a marketplace is a digital platform that brings two or more parties together and enables them to “transact”.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

What Ryan has learned about how salespeople are performing [10:51]. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model?

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

SaaStr

I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. They needed something now. It’s all there.