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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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At first glance, your choice of billing and subscription software might not seem super important. Many SaaS entrepreneurs don’t spend much time considering which billing software will fit their needs for the long-term. At first glance, it might seem like SaaS companies have similar billing needs as other subscription services.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. As the name implies, purchase intent is when a consumer shows signs of being ready to buy a product or service. Image courtesy of Kajabi.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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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 solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. What is Vertical SaaS?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A content management system—CMS for short—gives you the ability to publish content on the Internet. These systems make it possible for everyday users to build websites and post content without having to write code or learn programming languages. There are tons of different content management systems available on the market today.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Do you know of software, which belongs on this list? With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. StoryDimensions - Capture, Develop and Deliver Customer Stories … at Scale. bao solutions - Digital conversation support for your sales success.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps. Romain Huet : Right.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. Sitting down with folks and helping them to integrate Stripe on their U app.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . Remember that deploying enterprise software can cost a company millions of dollars, so you must show that your product is worthwhile. Another area where quality must stand out is in customer service.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? I don’t know anyone right now.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. The New Solution Selling. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Agile Selling.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. The first stage is building an organic growth engine.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. With a handful number of useful tools, the software helps you connect with the right influencers for your brand. The software not only helps promote your brand locally but also on an international level. dollars in 2018.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. Nicolas has a PhD in computer science, search engine background, text mining, worked in search for a long time. web services. Welcome, Daniel.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

In our conversation, Michael shares the strategies that have been most impactful for growing their word of mouth, the attribution model that’s the engine for their marketing strategy and Brex’s long-term plans to disrupt the credit card industry, vertical by vertical. billion dollars. Short on time? They wanted to build something really big.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business. In today’s world most merchants started out use Amazon marketplace to test out products before opening an online store.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. And Jay was sort of our solution to that process.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing. Founders can repurchase up to 90% of the fund’s ownership stake via these payments or lump sum payments, with the fund maintaining 10% of the equity that it was initially allocated.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Businesses charge a customer every month or year for use of a product or service. Licensing involves renting goods or services to other businesses.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. the percentage of customers who continue to use and resubscribe to your service over time) is your golden ticket to profits. MRR Delinquent.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

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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