Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S.,

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. This is giving rise to this phenomenon called leapfrogging, whereby African countries are circumventing the normal pathway of economic development and jumping straight to the latest thing. Here developers are dime a dozen.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

How to Harness the Power of Digital Market Dynamics for Product Innovation By BluLogix Team Innovating Subscription Offerings in the Agile Digital Landscape The digital marketplace is an ever-evolving ecosystem, characterized by rapid changes in technology, consumer behavior, and competitive landscapes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How can you scale while staying relevant to the user? She also discusses how these tools can provide value from the initial launch to a hyper-scaling mode. Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. The problem they set out to solve was just being made worse—a common theme in the marketplace.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Customer service as a model for growth.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

About two weeks ago, we invited our customers to a private roundtable, virtual discussion on Scaling Finance. The SaaS Finance MeetUPs help provide context for our benchmarking community to the OPEXEngine benchmarks and content that we develop. Managing your service portfolio and delivery expectations.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift’s Co-founders : Reaching unicorn status is nice validation, but the luster fades when founders can’t navigate the hidden challenges that come with uncharted territory. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers just joined the parade of software companies going public. The Fiverr filing sets up a comparison of Fiverr versus Upwork, the grand-daddy of freelancer marketplaces. Upwork Versus Fiverr: A Different Approach to Services. We call this the Service-as-a-Product (“SaaP”) model.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal. Nail it Before You Scale it . Cloud Marketplaces. The rise of the “citizen” developer and creator. Cloud mutiples are going up. Product-led Growth.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 16, 2024

The Development of Auto Auctions Online The emergence of internet platforms such as abetter.bid is one of the factors propelling the globalization of automobile auctions. These platforms eliminate the requirement for physical presence at traditional auction houses by offering a virtual marketplace where buyers and sellers can interact.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

As a result, more products are being discovered and sold through online marketplaces, like the Salesforce AppExchange and the AWS Marketplace. An optimal partner tech stack can improve and scale a partner program by providing higher quality data, better partner engagement, and improved workflow efficiencies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Software as a Service is currently taxable in about one-third of US states, and that number is only growing as outdated state sales tax laws slowly catch up with the way we’re doing business today. . Leverage automation to support scaling. “But with AutoFile, we’ve scaled to doing taxes in 40+ states.”

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . The Brazilian platform Superlógica is created with small service businesses in mind. Funding to Date : $6.6M

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Economies of scale. Brand equity.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

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Totango

JULY 22, 2022

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. We are constantly adding innovative new apps to our Customer Journey Marketplace , including our newest Engage Customers SuccessBLOC.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The solution Lauri and his partners developed became Messente — a messaging platform that allows companies to send SMS messages to their customers with full delivery reports, usage statistics, and historical data.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Market Development involves selling existing products to new markets. Product Development aims to grow within the existing market by introducing new or enhanced products. Market development Market development, also known as market expansion, involves selling existing products or services to new markets.

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CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. This encryptable data structure reliably flows SaaS identity and activity scope into each application service and data structure.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Yes, the tech giants could develop the software these micro startups are making, but by the time it’s ready for market, a competitor might have rolled a similar product out and taken all the glory.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, selling on a wider range of marketplaces gets your products in front of a larger audience. However, by setting up multiple accounts with different marketplaces, you’ve got greater flexibility if things go wrong. And there are other benefits in finding additional marketplaces, like: Greater Flexibility. percent fee.

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Payment Methods Payments Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 145

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Traditionally, payment gateways and payment processors were offered as two separate services and you would have different providers for each service: Payment gateways quickly and securely transfer the payment details from the checkout software to the payment processor. Scale quickly with transparent flat-rate pricing.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 131

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Benefits of Automating CLM Enhanced Personalization: Automation tools can analyze customer data to deliver personalized messages, offers, and support at scale. Select the Right Automation Tools: Choose automation platforms that integrate seamlessly with your existing CRM, billing, and service delivery systems.

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Totango

APRIL 25, 2022

To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. Scale Your Journey, Not Your Platform. Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. What are you waiting for?

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Scytale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The financial technology (fintech) industry has revolutionized the way we manage our finances, conduct transactions, and access financial services. Achieving compliance enables fintech companies to expand their services globally, enter new markets, and form partnerships with financial institutions and other stakeholders worldwide.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Elevator pitch : Construct develops a field communication platform for construction projects. Through automated content and survey delivery, we improve and accelerate the process of integrating, developing and acculturating new employees. Don’t hold back, this is a rare opportunity. They start by focusing on the onboarding.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 10, 2016

The same is true for vertical software, developer software, and every category in between. In such a contentious ecosystem, how does a new business develop a sustainable competitive advantage? Looker’s architecture empowers data teams to provide operational teams with the data they need to run the business at scale.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Today, going to market is often multifaceted and requires developing technical and commercial partnerships, selling through cloud marketplaces, and leveraging your product for growth.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys.

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