SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Or, it might originate as an intrinsic reason, such as when Atlassian decided to move their business model to become a SaaS platform. So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This setup is commonly used in marketplaces, software platforms, or businesses that facilitate payments for a network of sellers, service providers, or smaller businesses. This model allows sub-merchants to focus on their core activities while benefiting from streamlined access to payment services.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. Julia, our CEO, had told me she wanted me to focus on growing the self-service business faster. So I gathered as much information as I could about these different strategic initiatives, as well as digging into the core self-service business.

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Stax

MAY 6, 2025

From handling higher transaction volumes to enabling new revenue models, the right system should grow with you and streamline both your operations and your customers checkout experience. TL;DR A scalable solution adapts to higher volumes, evolving business models, and new payment methods without breaking down or holding you back.

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CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Onboarding operationalizes your user model by expressing it through tenant context.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 23, 2020

For example, if you wanted to start a blog about vintage teacups, your URL could be www.vintageteacups.wordpress.com. A niche blog? Since your domain name will be a major face of your business, you’ll want to put some good thought into it. A strong domain name serves your business goals by referencing your product or service.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. Ask your own engineers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. There are over two million blog posts published each da y. In order, they need to know, use, love and recommend your products or services. We started blogging.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

My blog attracts millions of viewers, and accolades have stacked up for entrepreneurship, marketing, and influence. NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Meet our Co-Founders: Neil Patel and Mike Kamo.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. How have you structured the business model or even the product to make that type of viral spread easier?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Invoice financing is an attractive funding option for B2B and service-based businesses. They offer an intuitive marketplace that fast-tracks invoice payments and quickly increases cash flow for SaaS companies. Stage #1: Company ABC sells their invoice on a financing marketplace such as Crowdz. Pro Tip: Check out Crowdz !

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

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Stax

MAY 5, 2025

A payment gateway solution is a service that authorizes credit card payments and processes them on behalf of the merchant. Through Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, or money transfers, the gateway enables more payment options for users and businesses. You may miss out on performance or usability improvements (e.g.,

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. We begin by taking stock of three foundational dimensions: (1) User Model , (2) Monetization , and (3) Measurement.

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers just joined the parade of software companies going public. The Fiverr filing sets up a comparison of Fiverr versus Upwork, the grand-daddy of freelancer marketplaces. Upwork Versus Fiverr: A Different Approach to Services. We call this the Service-as-a-Product (“SaaP”) model.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 1, 2021

The Ellevest Instagram bio works because it clearly states who the business is for (by women, for women), the industry it’s in (financial services), and the type of business model it uses (membership-based). This gives the reader a good idea of the target audience and what they’ll achieve through the service.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. As the likes of Airbnb, Uber and Apple have found, creating an entirely new category can be a lucrative business.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? 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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” And then you’re gonna have as a merchant, as SaaS business so many charges due to that.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

These tools make it easy for anyone to launch an ecommerce business by building a website from scratch. So if you’re interested in selling products or services on the web, you’ll need to find an ecommerce builder to create your online store. Every great online store starts from the same place—with an ecommerce website builder.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The landscape of agile monetization is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new business models. This decentralization can significantly reduce fraud, streamline operations, and build trust between service providers and consumers.

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User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2023

Dropbox, Slack, and Grammarly are great examples of companies that have successfully harnessed the power of the freemium model to drive growth. Freemium is a business model which gives users free access to the product. Want to see how Userpilot can help you execute your freemium strategy? Book the demo !

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

How to Harness the Power of Digital Market Dynamics for Product Innovation By BluLogix Team Innovating Subscription Offerings in the Agile Digital Landscape The digital marketplace is an ever-evolving ecosystem, characterized by rapid changes in technology, consumer behavior, and competitive landscapes.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He identifies 6 business models and corresponding usual North Star Metrics: Marketplaces (eg Uber) – consumption growth. Paid growth-led businesses – growth efficiency (ie LTV/CAC ratio ). Some of the most successful Silicon Valley companies put North Star Metrics at the heart of their business model.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2022

User onboarding is important because it’s core to the business model of any SaaS company: you need to meet your users’ expectations by delivering on their expectations of what value they’ll get. A common misconception is that user onboarding is simply about getting users to sign up for your product or service.

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Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

As the leading consulting firm that has a practice dedicated to subscription and recurring revenue businesses, Navint sponsored the event. You can read more about the event in our blog post, 3 Insights from Tien Tzuo’s Fireside Chat on the Subscription Economy. ? ?. Transcription. Tien Tzuo: 03:13 And this kind of captures it.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Art of Flexibility: How to Master Dynamic Pricing Models in Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team Adapting to the Pulse of the Market for Maximized Revenue In today’s rapidly evolving digital marketplace, static pricing models are becoming a relic of the past.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Monetization Efficiency is the Heartbeat of Business Success in the Digital Age By BluLogix Team The Critical Role of Monetization Efficiency In a world where digitalization has redefined the marketplace, the spotlight shines ever so brightly on the concept of monetization efficiency. Why Does Monetization Efficiency Matter?

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

A clever business model enabled the company to be “the fastest-growing software company on the planet,” he says. However, this model was unsustainable. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says. Business Model. Company Culture.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Having a flexible pricing strategy allows SaaS providers to cater to different customer segments and needs by offering different pricing models such as subscription, usage-based , freemium, or hybrid. Each model has its own logic and is appropriate for various types of services and customer needs.

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