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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Understanding Growth Potential.

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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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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

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. At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. Customers called us.

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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. More than $200 billion in online sales have been facilitated via Shopify.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 6, 2018

Finding the best live chat software in a crowded marketplace can be tricky. Fortunately, this just means there’s bound to be an option that fits perfectly with your business model. Simply being available can make the difference between getting a sale and losing a potential customer. 1) Real-time communication.

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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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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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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. This is the role of customer value and the customer value manager. Many value promises are made by marketing and sales.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

TL;DR Embedded finance integrates financial services into non-financial business processes, while embedded fintech integrates fintech solutions into the processes of an institution in the finance industry. The point of interaction could be via the business website, mobile app, or in person.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge. Inside sales? How many small Shopify merchants might want the exact same service?

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” However, if the basic ingredients for growing a sustainable, high-performance business are missing, you’re setting yourself up for frustration.”. However, this model was unsustainable.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Thats why Ive curated a list of three top product manager openings at data-driven companies, along with standout candidates who are ready to make an impact. Whether youre hiring or job hunting, this roundup is designed to save you time and connect you with the best options available. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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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. Four ways to drive value.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? . Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities?

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Sales exploded, and if you’d picked up a big enough chunk of stock when the company went public, you’d never have to work again.”. Retail experts can point to many reasons Sears, and other large retailers, have fallen from global leaders to massive store closures and flat sales. You could pay a fair price.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms.

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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. As its name should communicate, the Customer Development model focuses on developing customers for the product or service your startup is building. Is there a sales cycle you know of? The customer is right.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hiring a CFO. First: Why hire a CFO, anyway? . A CFO can help you safely manage your growth during times of increasing business complexity without overextending your runway.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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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. Workplace is about connecting people.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

he was responsible for the operation of the global advertising marketplaces organization. How Yext evolved from managing listings to powering AI-ready data pipelines. In 2003, Michael founded Right Media – the world’s first open exchange for digital advertising. in July 2007. At Yahoo!, Thats where TriNet comes in.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Most of you who ever have done enterprise sales, you know enterprise sales are spreadsheet-driven. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. There can be many, many winners when you have compounding interest from users and from services. We can do the private marketplaces.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I was flying on a plane one day as a flight attendant, and I met an executive at Microsoft who told me that they were bringing onboard a new bunch of younger employees, and Microsoft typically doesn’t hire people out of college. We’re basically the world’s biggest business marketplace. Ryan: Sure. We’re now G2.com,

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2025

being led by a sales leader wasn’t like. When I went to marketing, first I started an MBA, and then I, Dave Melin, who was in the Dev, he a good friend of mine still, I just met with him about a few months ago, gave me a chance to become a product marketing manager. Search, right? Some search [00:06:00] innovation. Can I learn?

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