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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. Combining SaaS tenant identity with the activities and features in your SaaS user model creates the necessary conditions for your SaaS measurements to deliver value.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Infrastructure as a service is now standard, as are Platform and Software as a service. Cloud computing is dominant. Mid-stage startups.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

Whereas Facebook’s overall vision relies heavily on third-party developers having access to user data, Workplace wants to be the app that’s connected to all your other apps and a highly curated marketplace that has the best SaaS applications in the world. It’s about turning companies into communities.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Self-service freemium to feed the funnel. I actually enjoy doing my expense reports now, but expense reporting prior to Expensify was just awful. It’s a great user experience for everyone. SaaS, right?

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Intercom on Product: The dawn of a new decade

Intercom, Inc.

Google Drive might’ve done an awful lot to kill the file because they have a file system. Emmet: It ushered in the gig economy, the two sided marketplace etc. Even services. It might be a better customer experience and user experience and actually better generally if it was productivity, but it would look like a reduction.