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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. Note: I am blatantly stealing Brandon Chu’s platform definitions for this.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Sequencing Business Models: So You Want To Be A Platform?

Casey Accidental

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.

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. It starts with self service.

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How to Work With a Consultant: The Ultimate Guide

Neil Patel

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pilot and Doctolib — March 20, 2020

SaaStr

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And this was right around the time of 2006 to seven.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

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5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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