SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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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.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves. RD Station. Based in: Curitiba, Brazil.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. There are two popular brands used in the CRM and customer service space – Zendesk vs Freshdesk. It equips the sales, marketing, and customer service teams with the necessary tools. Freshdesk is suited for small businesses that want a basic CRM.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. 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. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. How Messente scaled with no funding. What Is Messente?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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. Ultimately, what we’re building is a multi-channel commerce platform.

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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. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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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. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 web services. When you look at it, how do think about setting that revenue goal?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Scroll to the right in the table below and filter for integrations to find what works for you. Drive Revenue. StoryDimensions - Capture, Develop and Deliver Customer Stories … at Scale. Account Based Selling.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2019

Having an in-house solution means your company invests resources into building an ecommerce solution for use exclusively within your organization. Readily accessible staff — Having a dedicated team to maintain your ecommerce platform means that your company can troubleshoot issues as they arise. In-House Ecommerce Solution.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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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. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

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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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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

As long as you find a platform that looks professional and handles the billing and analytics properly, you’ll be in good shape, right? They pick the platform that will work for their needs now — and the one that makes the smallest dent in their budget. It pays to make the right choice of billing platform from the start.

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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. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. EJ Brown 00:31 That was Ryan Austin, the founder and CEO of Cognota, the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

No one wants to invest in tools that aren’t entirely useful to their process. In this in-depth review, I’ll dive into the best recruiting software options on the market, as well as how to pick one that fits your business best without having to deal with the overwhelm. Is testing a big part of your hiring process?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 12, 2021

Even more recently, the scale has tipped and 55% of consumers now prefer to buy directly from brands or manufacturers instead of retailers. Brands with this direct consumer interaction reward their customers with superior customer service and a more personalized buyer experience.

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

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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. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.”

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume. Uber is a classic marketplace company.

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Expanding internationally always requires significant investment and research. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely. Are New Opportunities More Receptive to Your Now-Digital Push?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If everybody’s just doing a little sliver of the work, how do you roll it up into a meaningful business case? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. I don’t know anyone right now.

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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. Where is the revenue leakage happening? For SaaS service companies, MRR is what puts food on the table. How fast is it happening?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. What fundamentally changes?

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Navint

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I have several clients who have been able to scale and grow to $500M, but now their new goal is to get to $2B, as an example. But often the operational side had been duct-taped together and is now struggling because it can’t scale to reach $2B or $5B. Why do you think scaling operations of product-first companies is so challenging?

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