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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

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. Prospects were confused over how the marketplace worked and the sales team struggled to explain it.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development. Rise of subscription-based business models.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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FastSpring Support and Subscription Management Continue to Impress SocialBee

FastSpring

However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities. An actively involved leadership team that gets to know customers personally. For most customers and most use cases, things just worked.

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You’re Holding Your Business Back If You’re Not Automating These 5 Processes

SaaStr

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Pay close attention to these developments to make sure you’re always getting the most out of your human capital.

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Can Mobile Games Really Achieve >50% of Revenue From D2C?

FastSpring

How you can pursue these strategies to drive more profitability for your games, while developing a more meaningful relationship with your players. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. David Vogelpohl (FastSpring) (02:31) How much was a Warcraft subscription back then? Jump to video.

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How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores

FastSpring

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. But that ease of use can come at a steep price for developers.