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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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5 Ways to Prepare a New Salesperson for Cold Calling

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Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Nobody likes cold calling. But just because it isn’t fun doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pilot and Doctolib — March 20, 2020

SaaStr

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. But basically about 15 years ago, I was out of school.

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Kung Fu

A Smart Bear

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. All startups are screwed up. All startups are screwed up. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats.

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5 Ways to Prepare a New Salesperson for Cold Calling

Chart Mogul

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Nobody likes cold calling. But just because it isn’t fun doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.