SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Sage Intacct is a popular choice for automating bookkeeping because it includes features unique to the SaaS business model.

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Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

Data as a service (DaaS) is becoming increasingly popular. Businesses using DaaS platforms can see improvements in data collection, usage, and management. Additionally, offloading data management to DaaS companies means more internal capacity for business development. What Is Data as a Service (DaaS)?

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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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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

If its time to sell your SaaS, app, or other digital product business, listen to or watch this episode of Growth Stage now! Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So it’s a marketplace, it’s a platform. What got you into this particular business model?

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

The thinking is that every successful software product will eventually be commoditized because it attracts lots of people who will copy the product and offer it for a lower price. VCs need outliers to make their business model work, but that's not your problem. Enough words. Here's the 2017 SaaS Funding Napkin!

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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. For high touch sales businesses, it’s a little different. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” Pricing is so sticky inside companies.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of the Pricing Transformations series. Pricing Transformations in 2020. Pricing Transformations in 2021. Pricing models must be adaptable – 4/5 on this. We took off a point as there are still too few people who understand pricing models well enough to make them adaptable.

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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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SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

Product-led growth is much more than a growth hack, pricing strategy, or industry buzzword—It’s an organizational framework used by B2B SaaS companies to answer one simple question: “How can we get our product to sell itself? What Does Freemium Mean in Business? Is Freemium a Good Business Model?

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Stax

MAY 6, 2025

TL;DR A scalable solution adapts to higher volumes, evolving business models, and new payment methods without breaking down or holding you back. It adapts as you grow, offering the tools you need to manage payments, support new business models, and ensure secure, efficient payment processing.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

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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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. 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. The Types of Marketplaces.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

And I’m here to talk about SaaS products and how they can be delivered, and how you build a sustainable business for your own SaaS company as you serve customers. Because the packaging and pricing and thinking of the product will radically influence how successful you can be. So how does this even work with software as a service.

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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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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 9, 2017

Established in 1995, Angie’s List was the pioneer in the home services marketplace. This price represents a 44% premium over Angie’s List’s depleted closing stock price (see below)). Triumph of the One-Sided Pricing Plan. Last year, Angie abandoned her two-sided pricing strategy.

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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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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

This shows how fast this model is growing. For businesses, this means they can use payment systems without starting from scratch. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms. Traditional payment models make businesses rely on third-party providers. each year since 2018.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Traditionally, payment gateways and payment processors were offered as two separate services and you would have different providers for each service: Payment gateways quickly and securely transfer the payment details from the checkout software to the payment processor. Scale quickly with transparent flat-rate pricing.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

The greater competition among investors increases valuations relative to revenue pricing valuations further into the future. To sustain these growth rates, startups like these require lots of cash because of the customer acquisition payback period, and the more tenuous ones need capital to prove the business model actually works at scale.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Before that, I was at a company called Grasswire, and in both of those companies we had to acquire customers for about 1/10th the price of our competitors. 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.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 19, 2024

In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way businesses operate, offering scalable solutions accessible over the internet. This shift has not only transformed internal business operations but has also significantly impacted external market dynamics.

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The Angel VC

JUNE 13, 2014

Also, the expensive "private limo" service, which Uber started with in the beginning, didn't appeal to me. Price: The company's budget option, UberX, is cheaper than normal taxis. But is it also a great business? What is it that makes Uber so compelling? I think so.

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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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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Business Type and Requirements. Although inventory management software is versatile, only a few cater to specific niche industry initiatives and business models. Moreover, every business has its unique needs, and your business is no different. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) Inventory Management Systems.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software Review Payment Services 119

ProfitWell

JANUARY 15, 2020

Your pricing. To make your secret weapon even stronger, you’ll need a pricing analyst backing you up. Our pricing analysts build surveys and use ProfitWell’s algorithm to collect actionable data to guide business strategy in a manner that is measurable and implementable. What does a pricing analyst do?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

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. The best sales model in the world cannot make up for a flawed business model. For example, consider tech firms during the pandemic.

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Technical Review Sales Marketplace as a Service Banking 107

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.

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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. To choose a plan, go to Bluehost’s pricing page.

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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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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Consider the potential for growth if you make your pricing model a consistent priority for your company. Most SaaS companies, on the other hand, treat pricing as an afterthought, setting it and then forgetting about it, rather than viewing SaaS flexible pricing strategies as ongoing processes critical to their success.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

Here is a more detailed comparison between the two accounts: Vendor Central: invitation only you sell directly to Amazon Amazon controls the price of items fixed logistical options more advertising options. While Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) is available on Seller Central, you’ll have access to more features as a vendor.

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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. Yet that growth has come with a price in the form of rising game development budgets.

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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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