Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? Despite their primarily sloppy execution, some of the world’s largest and most admired businesses share one thing in common: they were all built using the right business economic model. Nothing else matters.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They demonstrate spectacular growth and expansion while revolutionizing and disrupting industries with new business models. How Atlassian does business . The Atlassian business model is unique. Marketplace partners. Businesses work with solution partners to help their brands accomplish specific goals.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. First, there was a LOT to like about the company: The market size was, and remains, huge. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service. Instacart is a case study of this.

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 9, 2017

Established in 1995, Angie’s List was the pioneer in the home services marketplace. Angie’s business model was a prominent differentiator from its competition in the home services market. But Did the “Right” Business Model Win? I am sad to see Angie’s List go.

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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.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We typically classify SaaS companies in terms of three customer segments, enabling us to better evaluate their needs: Small/Mid-Market (SMM). Business to Consumer (B2C). In this article, one in a series of three covering each of these SaaS customer categories, we will focus exclusively on Small/Mid-Market SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. Practice what you preach to your users, and position your business for faster growth by automating these five processes. #1 1 Sales tax. 2 Bookkeeping. 4 User support.

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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. You may not know that behind the Neil Patel brand is a powerful and growing network of digital marketing agencies with offices around the world. Neil Patel’s foray into digital marketing began with his blog.

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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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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

TL;DR Software monetization helps generate revenue using various new business models to reinvest in development and enhancements. The subscription model offers ongoing access for a fee, ensuring updates and steady income. The open-source model creates revenue by charging for beyond-the-basics services.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Pricing flexibility is critical for SaaS businesses because it enables the provider to adjust the price based on the value delivered to the customer, market conditions, and the customer’s willingness to pay. Technology and the rising tide of automation, for example, have a significant impact on market dynamics.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Select the Right Automation Tools: Choose automation platforms that integrate seamlessly with your existing CRM, billing, and service delivery systems. The tools should offer flexibility to customize workflows and communication based on your business needs.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2019

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. You hear about product market fit a lot these days, and with good reason. There are so many great ideas out there, the hard part is going to be how you find your market. What is Product Market Fit? Concept Commit.

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Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 7, 2016

For those of us who follow pricing strategy in two-sided markets, last week was a milestone. Angie’s List, which invented the home services marketplace (in 1995) announced it would drop its “paywall” The paywall charged buyers to search its directory and reviews before communicating with contractors.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

There are important relationships that exist between sales, marketing, and finance professionals. Influenced by their experiences with consumer marketplaces and leaning into their own technological comfort zones – buyers are more than capable of finding information on their own. Here are some of the key takeaways from our conversation.

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DeepStream

JULY 27, 2020

Since the days of yore, our mother-tongue has been primarily derived from two dialects – the B2B or the B2C business model. Businesses have been “talking the talk” by creating their entire communication based on the receiver – either a consumer or a company. Enter: H2H Marketing. Communication is like water.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. It’s tempting to assume there is a metrics model which tells you everything you need to know about the feedback loop of your SaaS strategy. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

David Cancel of Drift often talks about letting your ideas “ cross-pollinate ” and mental models can be a catalyst for that. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Network effects (marketplace).

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Embrace the cloud operating model. Sticky after all.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market. Ryan Austin 01:34 Sure, no, starting businesses are really tough as everybody knows. Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. Gaining new customers.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 18, 2019

This came to define a new go-to-market strategy for many marketplaces or, as they came to be known, SaaS-enabled marketplaces. In some cases, the SaaS was even given away free in the hope of driving adoption before monetizing on the marketplace.

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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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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. It’s important to find your niche.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

Just six Cloud companies listed on the Bessemer Nasdaq Cloud Index each are valued at over $100B, and together currently represent a market capitalization well over $1trillion. 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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At LendUp, it was because we were in the subprime lending space and we were trying to not screw people over, unlike the rest of the market. So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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. Let’s take the two businesses we’re working with in this guide as an example. It should be catchy, memorable, and easy to type.

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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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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the most important changes sparked by the subscription economy, and the move to software as a service, has been the shift from customer support to customer success. Many value promises are made by marketing and sales. How will inflation impact our customer’s business and business model?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash. Just eight years from founding to dominance with an entirely new model: the largest taxi company in the world owns no taxis and the largest hotelier in the world owns no real estate.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

Be carefully bold about affecting change and helping to guide the company in an evolving world and marketplace. Remember that as you shift or evolve your business model, that you will need to also evolve and iterate on your reporting, even for smaller companies. . Managing your service portfolio and delivery expectations.

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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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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

It’s important to pivot the value proposition of your company with customers, from “we’re here to keep things up and running” to “we’re in a relationship because I’m going to help you adopt and achieve business outcomes.”. Initially, customer success was funded by support from Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) or Sales & Marketing (S&M).

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Totango

MARCH 20, 2019

This means that our solutions can now be found in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace , and Oracle CX customers can take advantage of our innovative customer success technology to operationalize customer centricity across their organizations, complete their digital transformation and realize positive business results.

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