Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

Scale 72

Scale Marketplace as a Service B2B Scaling 72

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. One is your churn. SaaS businesses have churn. Churn, think we’re all familiar with what churn is. We talked about churn. MRR, obviously.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

This creates an acquisition treadmill with built-in natural churn. Switching to a different service is something that takes a lot of effort. Andrew: I started on the driver side of the business, and as everyone knows about marketplaces, the supply side is often the trickiest, hardest side. You joined on the supply side, correct?

Acquisition 224

Acquisition Marketplace as a Service Retention Startup 224

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

I’m going to first talk about some of the insights that we’ve gotten from serving Salesforce Ventures portfolio companies, both in terms of what they’re seeing in the market and how bookings and churn and things like that are heading, but then also how they’re adjusting to this on their go to market strategies.

Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 207

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. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Onboarding Hero – Definitive Healthcare. Definitive Healthcare’s passion is to transform data, analytics, and expertise into healthcare commercial intelligence. They help clients uncover the right markets, opportunities, and people, so they can shape tomorrow’s healthcare industry. Onboarding Hero – VAIRKKO.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Healthcare Scale Point of Sale 98

OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue. Once a customer has churned off the platform, it’s extremely difficult to win them back.

Pricing 85

Pricing Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service AWS 85