SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. but 30% comes from its so-called “Hospitality Cloud” which is really a marketplace for event services. The marketplace side took a bigger hit from the events shutdown during Covid (and also has lower gross margins), but is still a material contributor. #3.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review Cloud B2B 286

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. I would have expected lower than 100% net revenue retention from Upwork, given that much of the spend can be episodic. But it should be.

Marketplace as a Service 266

Marketplace as a Service SMB Cloud Enterprise 266

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping 80 million people every year make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews.

Payment Services 233

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments Embedded Payments 233

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 203

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 203

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. At Tackle, we have seen our sellers experience huge revenue growth, the product catalog is expanding rapidly for buyers, and budgets are growing at unprecedented rates. Tap into growing cloud spend and make your software part of the cloud budget .

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap supports payments across all geographies through multiple sales channels such as online and mobile sales, marketplaces, subscriptions, invoice payments and manual orders through a virtual terminal. Salesloft is the provider of the leading sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue.

Payments 195

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 195

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis. Consider Stax’s partner program.

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

Marketplace as a Service 83

Marketplace as a Service B2B Payments SaaS Payments 83

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. Marketplace partners.

Scale 227

Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Entrepreneurship 227

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many public software companies don’t report ARR, so I’ll take the quarterly subscription revenue and multiply it by 4 to approximate ARR. For the first time in a decade, IT services will become bigger than communication services in 2024. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

Cloud 161

Cloud Marketplace as a Service AI Subscription 161

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 6, 2019

There are also great resources for metrics specific to marketplaces (see here ). But much of my work is with a special kind of network, where one side of the platform is an enterprise buyer (or supplier) and on the other side is their supply base (or customers). That’s why I call them enterprise-driven. EDI networks (e.g.,

Payments 60

Payments Enterprise SaaS Payments Metrics 60

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].

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Data 94

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. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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 B2B 52

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Managing the Quote-to-Cash process can be complex, since it covers the entire sales cycle, software licensing fulfillment, and revenue recognition, and it’s typically spread across many applications. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Quote-to-Cash.

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Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review Marketplace as a Service 295

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.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out.

Scale 248

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service B2B 248

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For SaaS businesses, one of the most taxing tasks is to set the right price for their SaaS product and services. The Importance of Pricing Plans Deciding on the right pricing plan is important because it links directly with the revenue that you generate.

Pricing 59

Pricing Marketplace as a Service Business Transportation 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. .

Payments 190

Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 190

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

An enterprise-level company deals with more complexity in its internal processes, has to manage more people and roles, and needs more data to make informed decisions. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth. What is an enterprise CRM software? Enterprise CRM vs. SMB CRM.

Payment Solutions 84

Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 84

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. The loyalty that inspires pays off in the form of recurring revenue.

Enterprise 84

Enterprise Marketplace as a Service Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding 84

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The data that HubSpot collects usually centers around marketing campaigns and revenue growth. HubSpot analytics focuses on collecting data on contacts, customers, deals, and revenue, while Google Analytics primarily tracks site traffic metrics like sessions or page views. Source: HubSpot. Source: HubSpot.

Software Review 100

Software Review Marketplace as a Service Metrics Pricing 100

FastSpring

MAY 2, 2019

Successfully selling software and digital products in today’s global marketplace is harder than ever. Whether you’re an up and coming startup or an established enterprise-level company, this strategy can be very resource intensive and as a result, many companies often find themselves focusing more on one at the expense of the other.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review Innovation Enterprise 70

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 124

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast. As I dug deeper, it was clear a lot of the wrong assumptions had been made without an understanding of what enterprise sales is all about. After all, the marketplace speaks the loudest, and without customers you don’t have a business.

Sales Hiring 74

Sales Hiring Enterprise Scale Startup 74

Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software. What Retain does is that it retries payments at optimal times for success and dispatches proven notifications to aid in revenue recovery.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

With so much data available in enterprise organizations, a strong data collection process is more important than ever. In order to meet the demands of a competitive marketplace and today’s customers, you must streamline all of your data and create a holistic view of the customer in order to become truly customer-centric.

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Revenue Scale Marketplace as a Service Data 52

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 140

Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

To help demystify this sales POC term and provide context for all go-to-market professionals, let’s expand on each of these terms and identify five things the pre-sales professional can do to drive more revenue within the middle of the funnel. Sales Profile: Commercial to Enterprise. Sales Profile: Enterprise to Global Accounts.

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Revenue Sales SMB Engineering 73

The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

We will continue to focus on two business models: SaaS and marketplaces SaaS We use a broad definition of SaaS. 1 We’re equally interested in companies targeting SMBs (AKA rabbit and deer hunters) and companies targeting enterprises (AKA elephant and whale hunters). We are open to all of C2C, B2C, B2BC and other types of marketplaces.

Investment 118

Investment Marketplace as a Service Blockchain Machine Learning 118

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. The loyalty that inspires pays off in the form of recurring revenue.

Enterprise 48

Enterprise Marketplace as a Service Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding 48

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

Totango

MARCH 20, 2019

In today’s Customer Centered Economy, data integration and visualizations are table stakes — operationalizing a universal, company-wide approach to customer centricity is what delivers a competitive advantage to enterprises.

Enterprise 53

Enterprise Marketplace as a Service Scale Innovation 53

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Enterprise. Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Read more: SaaS Pricing Trends to Boost Sales & Revenue in 2024 Why do you need flexible pricing? Having more people use your products always beats maximizing revenue from those customers in the early days. Each model has its own logic and is appropriate for various types of services and customer needs.

Pricing 52

Pricing Payment Features SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Enterprise Stage – Ensuring Future Growth and Relevancy. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Usage Fee-Based ARR.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 1, 2024

When payment processing is smooth, the flow of the recurring revenue stream automatically remains steady. So, many companies have started offering Merchant of Record payment processing services. Also, businesses that need to hunt investors for their innovative projects must opt for Merchant of Record (MoR) services.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payments 52