OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

The terms aren’t universally understood, nor are the implications of each on the financial model of a company, so the following is an effort to provide an overview. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Subscription Payment Features 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. That’s why they’re trying to turn the company into a community.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It tracks the quality of engagement with your product and is a non-financial leading indicator of your product’s usage. It documents the business your product is building, y et it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight.”

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

On the other side, there’s business-based innovation, which might have to do with how you go to market or a business model. Google Apps had captured significant market share, AWS was growing exponentially and Windows platforms were no longer the only game in town. Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed.

Innovation 41

Innovation Outsourced Development AWS Technology 41

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The second is really the how to think about your crew, really, how to take care of your crew, how to up-level your crew, how to invest in them, how to listen and engage them, and then also how to think about your extended crew. The second is the engagement level of that cohort. First things first, adjusting the sails. Look at Shopify.

Scale 177

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

Through our Expansion Team’s proactive engagement with the OpenView portfolio, we’ve devised several CAC payback best practices we find ourselves turning to time and time again. For SaaS businesses, hosting (AWS) costs and customer onboarding are the key costs of goods sold and are constantly being optimized.

Scale 40

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming.

Startup 52

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Byron : Now, over the weekend, as some of us were watching kind of a snooze fest football game, maybe drinking a beer which apparently has corn syrup in it, who knew? Twice for retail.

Cloud 162

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 162

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s the world’s worst way to help people find the right software for their business, because every company is different. Every region in the world has very different business models. It was: you go to a vendor site, you fill out a form, some sales rep calls and qualifies you, and then you go through this awful process.

Education 123

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. I think we can go build a single, unified communication platform that can transform the way every company on the planet engages with their end users. I love Jeff.

Scale 128

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Planning for long-term means a lot of implications for how employees live and work, how they work together, and engagement and collaboration is now a preference. Is AWS in the lead? Going through a few of the points on our slide, it’s not solely based on health and safety, but that is a big issue right now, right?

Sales Recruiting 143

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 143