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. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Aaron : And they just have to do it.

Sales Hiring 211

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 211

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 275

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 275

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. People are like, of course I do invest in Adyen, it’s a misspelling of his name, he’s investing in himself. We had a marketplace payer solution.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley.

Payment Services 137

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 137