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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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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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 142

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.

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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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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 145

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Benefits of Automating CLM Enhanced Personalization: Automation tools can analyze customer data to deliver personalized messages, offers, and support at scale. Select the Right Automation Tools: Choose automation platforms that integrate seamlessly with your existing CRM, billing, and service delivery systems.

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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.

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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 other option is to outperform lower-cost competitors by gaining market share, usually by lowering their price point to achieve virality.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. It has a compounding effect - the more good decisions a business makes, the better the results will be. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making. Brand equity.

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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. In other words, we may see users coming for the network and staying for the tool.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. You can create whatever combined word you’d like for that to be the case.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

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. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business.

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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.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

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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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. With twenty-five years in the software business, I’ve seen my share of pricing exercises.

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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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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

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. Mike Kamo, Founder and Global CEO, NP Brands, is a leader in building, managing, and scaling businesses. NP Digital Marketing Services. and around the world.

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Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

And um, and even when you know, when companies sort of violate that relationship, you can see the customer’s rebel and that’s where churn spikes up in the business model, gets a little shaky. So we do think it’s simply a much better business model, but you have to, you know, overcome that hump of a leap of faith.

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Navint

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A subscription model puts the customer, not the product, in the center of every interaction. We can see how the customer is interacting with and using our service, therefore we have no choice but to make them happy. Dynamic packaging and pricing is a must — be able to iterate easily. It has a higher price.’

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

The answer lies in your product or service’s value proposition. For example, if you’re a product-led company, you may consider a freemium business model to build a user base of free trial customers quickly. Review your pricing strategy. The end result? Use SaaS metrics to reiterate, test, and improve.

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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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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model. Pricing wars are another source of margin compression. In other words, if customers are purchasing the product only because of price, either you’re in a commodity market or your feature set lacks competitiveness.

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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. Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. For high touch sales businesses, it’s a little different.

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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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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. 2 Instant access to service for the customers. . #2

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. 2 Instant access to service for the customers. . #2

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Marketplace as a Service Trends Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 10

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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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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.

Outsourcing Services 142

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 142

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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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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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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SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. It is a smart lean startup concept that is based on agile engineering and model design. The framework allows companies to strike the right price point for stakeholders. Customer development is important. Customer Discovery.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How does Rob think through pricing today in a way that encourages land and expand? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success. What does it take to expand effectively?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 258

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever. Entirely new markets can be born.

Strategy 90

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And, in the case of Unity, the damaged trust from their recent pricing change execution has left the community seeking alternatives. Further, with the assets, data, and transformations co-located in the cloud vs locally, developers can scale compute elastically to complete a specific task.

Engineering 145

Engineering Technical Review Payments AI 145

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever. Entirely new markets can be born.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52