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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

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.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. Maria : Oh, I’ll take the number one thing to improve your culture. And we didn’t know that these companies would last decades, right? We were wrong. Aaron : No.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? In practice, what can one do to improve it? Who has done this well?

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation.

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5 Ways to Build your SaaS Channel Partner Strategy in 2020

SaaSX

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. So to combat this feeling (but, really, to maximize resources for greater ROI), companies sometimes turn to a partner for help with the heavy lifting. What kind of partner can help my company with its current challenges?” It can get a little lonely out there. Ask yourself: .

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. The Building Blocks of a Scalable Company. Company Culture. A Cautionary Tale. Who is your buyer?

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

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.