Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Its the third-party service that serves as the link between the payment gateway, acquiring bank, and issuing bank or card network. That said, lets dive into the different types of eCommerce payment solutions: Hosted payment gateways Hosted payment gateways are provided by a payment service provider (PSP).

Payment Methods

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2025

LAR Nielsen style, we’re gonna hire SDRs, and then they’ve aligned how they invest in build the organization around it. So some of the stuff is old as time in enterprise software. Our RD leader only wants super senior product people, but you know, for sales we want to build all our own talent. Change order?

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BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

Get ready to turn those monthly charges into strategic investments that fuel your business growth. SaaS budgeting is the process of planning, allocating, and managing financial resources for acquiring and using Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions within an organization. What is SaaS budgeting?

Technical Review

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 17, 2025

In fact, 83% of small businesses using a CRM saw a positive return on investment and 61% reported improved customer retention by leveraging these tools. You can integrate email, calendars, and more via the Salesforce AppExchange marketplace. The best part? Scalability: As your business grows, Salesforce can scale with you.

Software Review

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

The Expert Panel Karen Paige, General Partner at B Capital Karen brings deep operational and investment expertise to B Capital, where she focuses on enterprise software and AI investments. B Capital manages over $6B in assets and has backed category-defining companies across enterprise software, fintech, and healthcare.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He also co-founded WGI Group, LLC, to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups in enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. he was responsible for the operation of the global advertising marketplaces organization. It was a very, I’d say simple marketplace. in July 2007.

AI Search

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.

Payment Methods

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

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

. “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 Eren Bali founded Udemy in 2010, he had a vision for what the marketplace would be: a place where anyone could teach and learn anything.

Marketplace as a Service

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. 80% SMB, 20% Enterprise. While Upwork has made inrounds into the enterprise, it remains squarely an SMB product. But it should be.

Marketplace as a Service

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

While my attention is laser focussed on helping our sales organisation hit quota, lately I’ve been thinking about how HubSpot’s partner marketing and sales agencies, of which there are more than 3,400 can sell sales enablement as a monthly recurring service. That’s where sales enablement comes in. That’s where sales enablement comes in.

Marketplace as a Service

Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

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?

Marketplace as a Service

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.

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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.

Marketplace as a Service

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. Help them adapt to the requirements of enterprise and mid-enterprise sales. . From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. you’re invested in their growth as much as yours.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

Over the last couple of weeks and months we spent some time putting our investment thesis on paper. The purpose of this exercise was to challenge and discuss our implicit assumptions and to get everyone on our team aligned on what kind of investments we seek. What’s important is the right founder/market fit.

Investment

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Marketplace partners.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

A renowned enterprise software leader that has led revenue organizations and spearheaded the cloud GTM strategies at companies such as Oracle, New Relic, and now Confluent, Erica Schultz is Confluent’s President of Field Operations and will share what she has seen evolve in enterprise GTM and tips on how to thrive in the current environment.

Sales Hiring

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. from Astella Investimentos, Spectra Investments and others. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . Funding to Date : $6.6M Funding to Date : $7.5M

SaaS Payments

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

Marketplace as a Service

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Furthermore, a shift to mobile and live service games means that content development is never truly done – a successful game launch quickly turns into a content treadmill to release monthly updates and DLC / expansion packs to retain players.

Outsourcing Services

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Should you take the risk of applying to a fast-growing startup, or slowly work your way up at a more established enterprise company? I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations. Start-Ups VS Enterprise.

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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 that brand led to viral adoption, whether it was in the commercial segment or the enterprise segment. When we started out, we built the company purely as a SaaS company.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing.

Technical Review

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? Entry level application (<$5,000 p.a.).

Business Model

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Eventbrite’s case, the company was: Integrating the acquisition of Ticketfly to move up-market in a specific vertical and build an enterprise sales motion. Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. The core self-service business was growing steadily at significant scale and was profitable.

Technical Advisors

Totango

JULY 2, 2019

These days, customers expect personalized service. Enterprises need to keep customers happy because it’s never been easier for them to find alternatives. Enterprises need to keep customers happy because it’s never been easier for them to find alternatives. Build the enterprise around the customer.

Enterprise

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

For the first time in a decade, IT services will become bigger than communication services in 2024. Gartner estimates that by 2027, nearly all of the growth in worldwide IT spending will come from software and IT services. As I said, that SKU has outsold any other new introduction we put into the marketplace.

Cloud

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. So the average enterprise is adding about a hundred SaaS apps per year.

Software Review

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Instead, larger tech companies like Twitter and Pinterest are making investments in small startups. Over the last couple of years, there have been clear trends in why big companies are choosing to invest in these small teams and use them as part of their growth strategy.

Technical Review

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

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). .

Marketplace as a Service

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. Enterprise value per revenue is 10X.

Investment

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Below, we’ll explain how each of our agencies works, the services they provide, and what to expect from each of them in the future. NP Digital Marketing Services.

VP of Engineering

Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

That’s because the people who are working in the SaaS industry or investing in these businesses are sharing much more of the details about all aspects of growing and scaling a SaaS business. Replicated , Build SaaS Features Enterprises Love. Sales has become a saturated channel.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

But as it started selling more and more into the enterprise, it staffed up with a deep and strong one. But when it came to selling Dropbox Enterprise, it added several. The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. What’s not to like?

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