Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Anish Shivdasani, CEO @ Giraffe.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. 45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. See: The Ultimate Product-Led Growth Resources Guide. US inflation rates peaked at 13.5%

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps. Romain Huet : Right.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Many SaaS entrepreneurs don’t spend much time considering which billing software will fit their needs for the long-term. The problem is that they often don’t realize just how quickly they’ll need a billing platform that can handle the complex billing needs of a growing SaaS business. The Complexity of SaaS Billing.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Corporate learning is really enterprise SaaS. Ryan Austin 15:53 Yeah, we don’t do any service whatsoever.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

This post is for other early stage SaaS companies who are similarly considering whether some of these new forms of capital make sense for their business. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing. Mentors are available during scheduled office hours calls.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Applying a sales methodology to your selling gives you a tried and true advantage, and enables you to plan your work and work your plan. Our bank account takes a hit.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

So we saw huge lifts in acquisition when we moved from money that you can get in 12 hours to money that you could get in five minutes in your bank account, and that’s because some people didn’t have 12 hours to wait and stress. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . In this write-up, I will first explain what makes enterprise clients different and then take you through the all-important enterprise sales terminology that every B2B SaaS company should know.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The faster you grow, the more likely you are to achieve long-term success (and actually survive long enough to scale). Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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