FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

They Formed a Strategic Partnership With an Agency to Work On Their Brand Positioning Dopple’s team worked with Tomorrow , an ecommerce-focused agency, to shape their positioning. “We They have dimension, they have shape, they have personality. It’s truly about expression of that product. It starts with self service.

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 142

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This is because using a customer-centric definition highlights the key operational differences that drive strategic decision-making at these businesses as well as influencing the relevant performance indicators for them. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

Scale 158

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 158

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. We are definitely the fastest growing code school probably of all time.

Acquisition 137

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 137

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189