SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. As a result of this, marketplaces have exploded in growth, and here’s some facts and figures.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

This is a post about structuring your teams, and structuring your business. They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. But, as a business grows, teams may find that this success hinges on overcoming one final hurdle: building a financial stack. What makes a SaaS business so hard? Rise of subscription-based business models.

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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. Common Marketplace Vectors.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Entering a crowded marketplace as a new business can be intimidating, especially when established players with a solid customer base surround you.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

She draws from personal experience scaling a global product company to $1B and shares common mistakes. Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. The establishment of the enablement function is vital in scaling a business. You need a sales enablement team if your company has scaled to over $10 million ARR.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Data becomes siloed in disparate SaaS apps, fragmenting the business processes that run your organization. All high-growth SaaS companies tend to share one thing in common: They automate critical business processes and mend fragmented ones early on to succeed. They also won’t scale with your company’s growing amount of SaaS apps.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of us happen to use WhatsApp to connect with businesses in real-time, but with the normal app, it does not have much impact. And that is why WhatsApp has launched the WhatsApp Business Service with a set of premium features for businesses to run without much hassle. WhatsApp Business is absolutely free.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. In between, Google operates an advertising marketplace, AdX. This data enables the marketplace to amass census scale data on supplier performance, granular to the type of service rendered. The first SEMs flourished in advertising.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way. What’s accelerating this marketplace movement?

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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. The sword and the shield.

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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. to build digital grocery businesses in the U.S. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Customer service as a model for growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

New Relic, provider of real-time insights for software-driven businesses has this formula figured out. Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. Want to see more content like this?

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The landscape of agile monetization is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new business models. Charting the Future: What Are the Emerging Trends in Subscription Billing and Monetization?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. A good take rate for a marketplace. While not unexpected, its a similar distribution to both other marketplaces and many SaaS businesses.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

About two weeks ago, we invited our customers to a private roundtable, virtual discussion on Scaling Finance. We made an exception to our rule and invited an outside expert on Scaling Finance, Anup Juneja, an Expert Senior Manager at Bain & Company, for part of the meeting. Managing your service portfolio and delivery expectations.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When I started advising Eventbrite, the company had a business unit structure, so it didn’t even have a CPO role, but product leaders embedded into different business units. Scaling work: tuning the underlying technologies or process to help the product and team continue to be effective e.g. Uber rearchitecting its data pipelines.

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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. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. Why is that?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How can you scale while staying relevant to the user? She also discusses how these tools can provide value from the initial launch to a hyper-scaling mode. Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. The problem they set out to solve was just being made worse—a common theme in the marketplace.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2020

Tomorrow as part of Algolia’s SaaS Expert series I’ll be talking about scaling top SaaS companies. Come join us for an open discussion on how to scale faster and better here ! He was named by BusinessInsider to “The 32 Most Powerful People in Business Technology.”. Register here: [link] pic.twitter.com/E8LmXuEYge.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

How to Harness the Power of Digital Market Dynamics for Product Innovation By BluLogix Team Innovating Subscription Offerings in the Agile Digital Landscape The digital marketplace is an ever-evolving ecosystem, characterized by rapid changes in technology, consumer behavior, and competitive landscapes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. How’s it guys?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift’s Co-founders : Reaching unicorn status is nice validation, but the luster fades when founders can’t navigate the hidden challenges that come with uncharted territory. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different?

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Ryan has been building and scaling companies on the sales side for over 20 years. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

trillion in market cap for the pure plays (not including proportional shares from the Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, or Alibaba businesses that are their cloud businesses.) Each of those, independently, are massive market cap drivers for their businesses as well. Nail it Before You Scale it . Cloud Marketplaces.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s critical for a business to adapt when the situation calls for it, especially in response to new customer preferences, evolving technology, cultural movements, etc. The signs that a change is needed can come externally, like a new trend or wave that impacts your product, business, or mission. Scaling an Ecosystem.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

You never think about self-storage businesses until you need one. And like many businesses, Storable has seen credit card payments go through the roof since the start of the pandemic. We didn’t want to deal with all the complexity right out of the gate, and we didn’t have the processing scale yet.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Let me show you why you should be scoping out reviews for your business. Why It’s Important for Your Business to Get Reviewed. With over 31 million small businesses in the US, consumers have a massive amount of choices. For businesses, this means it’s crucial to find ways to set your brand apart from competitors.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. RD Station is an inbound marketing platform targeted at small and medium-size businesses. Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. We can’t wait to meet them. RD Station.

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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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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Easyship provides e-commerce businesses with a single solution for shipping worldwide. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. from a seed round.

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