Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

Benjamin Eckel operates MCP.run , which consists of a registry of MCPs, along with tools to glue together, orchestrate and run MCPs (AI services). You might be able to discover other agents, but how would you pay them, each the normal setup is for each service to have its own API key and associated account? Bad for so many reasons.

Engineering 52

Engineering AI Search AI Payment Solutions 52

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

They believe the traditional services delivery model is being disrupted, and that in the age of AI, every company should be able to get up and running on their CRM and deploy software to their teams within days. They have built for more than 200,000 customers in over 100 countries around the world.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52

User Pilot

JUNE 25, 2025

Bundle the app with related products or services Offering your paid apps as part of a bundle with complementary apps can increase their perceived value. You can always bundle additional services. For example, if you have a gallery app, bundle a storage service that allows users to upload and view photos seamlessly across devices.

Payments 66

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Strategy 66

Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2025

It’s a place to build a community of people who might benefit from your product or service. Social media monitoring tools help you gain qualitative feedback about your product or service and understand what people actually feel about your social media content. Here’s the thing: Social media is a two-way street.

Social Media 67

Social Media AI Search Branding Marketplace as a Service 67

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Intellum is an Atlanta-based learning technology company that combines the best of customer experience with customer education to help large brands and fast-moving companies increase revenue, improve customer retention and decrease support costs. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services PayFac as a Service Marketplace as a Service 246

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

We made the investment because Pika makes it possible for anyone to become a professional quality video creator and use that powerful format to communicate, educate and entertain. #2. It’s not the biggest one but we’re very proud of our investment in BuildingConnected, a SaaS plus marketplace company that sold to Autodesk.

Marketplace as a Service 274

Marketplace as a Service Venture Capital Entertainment Construction 274

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

Scale 259

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 259

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The platform also offers free educational resources to educate its customers. 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. . CEO : Eric Santos.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Funding to Date : $1.3M

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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. . This is the exact scenario that KiwiCo, a subscription-based educational toy company, encountered. Mark earned his B.A.

Merchant Services 202

Merchant Services Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring 202

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

Marketplace as a Service 111

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 111

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 64

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To date, TxO works with 45 promising companies and 68 founders, all of whom are building products and services inspired by unique cultural insights. They founded Culture Wireless, an internet service provider that aims to deliver affordable and high-quality internet service to underserved communities. Jonathan G.

Wireless 119

Wireless Marketplace as a Service Artificial Intelligence Education 119

SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Metatext offers a solution to help SaaS entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as customer services, marketing and insights. They solve that by using both their AI-enabled platform and automation for engagement with leads and students The platform is already used by more than 150 Higher Education and k-12 in Brazil.

Startup 210

Startup Artificial Intelligence SaaS Construction 210

Totango

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Above all, it is an educational process. By implementing customer education best practices that drive the onboarding process, you will set your customers—and your enterprise— up for success. This is done by educating your customers on all the features and capabilities of your product. . Standardized Practices.

Education 64

Education Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 64

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

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. Customers Are Initially Interested in Education, Not Your Product. Not Everyone Will Get It Right Away.

Scale 136

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 136

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Switching to a different service is something that takes a lot of effort. Andrew: I started on the driver side of the business, and as everyone knows about marketplaces, the supply side is often the trickiest, hardest side. I saw both sides of the marketplace, which was a lot of fun. You joined on the supply side, correct?

Acquisition 224

Acquisition Marketplace as a Service Retention Startup 224

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Think of pricing along a continuum with self-service pricing at one end and enterprise at the other” As you scale and evolve your business, there are a few key questions to ask as you determine your pricing strategy: Do you anchor off competitors (if any exist) or substitutes? Managing your support.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Since 2010, education startups have been on a tear in the seed market growing from 6% to now 10% in 2015.

Startup 111

Startup Marketplace as a Service Social Media Advertising 111

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

Outsourcing Services 162

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 162

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. And I think it’s especially true of SaaS companies, when you start to think about the fact that everything is a service. We didn’t ever have an on-prem solution.

Scale 234

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 234

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. But once they’re happy with a service, they can help build trust with new customers as well.

Software Review 118

Software Review Trends Software Marketplace as a Service 118

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Continuing our series on what’s next for education startups, in this a16z hallway conversation general partner Connie Chan talks with deal and research team operating partner Frank Chen about apps and services she’s seen in China that might inspire entrepreneurs …

Education 53

Education Startup Marketplace as a Service Mobile 53

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. Educate your target audience.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Sales Payment Services 126

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Prospective customers have to be educated. Their names were Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and they had just started Airbnb.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But to get the most out of WordPress, you need an excellent hosting service. Pick a theme or design for your website by visiting the Bluehost marketplace. So if you’re dissatisfied with your service, you can always get a refund. Click on the Marketplace tab on the Bluehost dashboard, followed by Themes.

Payment Methods 131

Payment Methods Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 131

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. Your responsibility is to educate others’ human minds as you convey your brand’s core message. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features. how do you stand out from the crowd?

Sales 141

Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 141

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. So, as we decided to take a bet on building an intuitive, self-service experience instead of masking user experience issues with human support, we really had to confront Belsky’s product lifecycle for the first time. Sounds expensive. This stuff is hard!

Scale 139

Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

They hired GTMP to reach out to prospects offering them a stipend to participate in a best practices study on development and utilization of Amazon-like marketplaces and related in-marketplace advertising. They call, thank them for their service, and offer to donate to their charity of choice, specific to veterans’ needs.

Innovation 120

Innovation Development Marketplace as a Service Business 120

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2019

When the customer journey isn’t well-orchestrated, Marketing and Sales can do serious damage in the marketplace. Here’s how it broke down: Marketing took on the work (and responsibility for) buyer personas, lead quality, and better positioning of Sales teams in the marketplace. Not the message, I am sure, they were meaning to send.

Strategy 107

Strategy Marketing Sales Marketplace as a Service 107

Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

The industry insights section provides you with data on certain industries, such as healthcare and financial services. The talent insights section on LinkedIn helps you pool all your best candidates based on their experience, education, and history on the platform. Knowing what trends and insights matter to you is most important.

Scale 141

Scale Social Media Advertising Marketplace as a Service 141

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. Affiliate networks work as a marketplace for affiliate programs. What types of products and services are your readers likely to be interested in? What is an Affiliate Network?

Merchant Services 144

Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Marketing 144

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. Instead, pursue the ones best aligned with the services you offer and your target audience. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers. Let’s start with B2C.

Software Review 140

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 140

Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

If you’ve been creating educational content on your blog, your best bet would be to start with educational video content and see if that resonates with your audience in the same way. Educational Videos. Educational videos are all about adding value to your audience. Stick with what you know. Video Marketing Conclusion.

Marketing 145

Marketing Social Media Sales Hiring Technical Review 145

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Improve customer service to boost overall product value. Customers expect a timely, personalized customer service experience. Offer white glove service for customers in higher purchasing levels. Invest in customer education throughout the entire user journey. Improve your customer service.

Scale 98

Scale SaaS Marketplace as a Service Social Media 98