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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! This is exactly backward. The winning approach: Start with employee-facing tools that deliver measurable productivity gains.

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

Intercom, Inc.

. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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Eventbrite’s Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

Intercom, Inc.

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

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

How selling an investment business is very different from getting VC funding. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So it’s a marketplace, it’s a platform. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript. And they buy those assets much like buyers and investors buy any other asset.

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How to Use Data as a Service (DaaS) Tools in Your Marketing Analysis

Neil Patel

Data as a service (DaaS) is becoming increasingly popular. What Is Data as a Service (DaaS)? Data as a service uses a cloud computing strategy to make business data readily available to stakeholders and third parties. What Are the Benefits of Using Data as a Service Tools? Who Benefits Most from DaaS Tools?

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Bridging Buyer-Seller Gaps like It’s 2020

SaaStr

In today’s fast-paced B2B marketplace of instant communication and process automation , businesses cannot afford to rely on the classic definition of a deal. We harp on dynamic deals so much because elite sellers are using this new definition to build well-oiled revenue engines. Invest in the top tools for your sales team.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. The same is true in software.