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.

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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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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? The chart above contrasts the pace of investment across the two markets by sector measured by % of total dollars invested anually. This may be a breakout category in 2016 for Series A investments.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s simply about which areas startup founders feel like they may be coming up short, not doing enough, or missing the mark.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

5 Critical and Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups with Y Combinator : Anu Hariharan , Managing Director at Y Combinator, will share key learnings from top B2B startups and how these pivotal lessons help founders build in any sector. How should marketing, sales, and product all work together? GET 20% OFF!

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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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 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. from Astella Investimentos, Spectra Investments and others. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders. The trio eventually joined forces to found Outing , a social marketplace where users can discover, book, and plan group outings.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

AUGUST 11, 2020

In another article, I shared the secrets that startups need to differentiate their services with a good landing page. It starts by asking (and answering) these 5 questions in order to arrive at your startup key differentiator Who is my target market, audience or niche? Landing page lessons from 20 Nigerian startups.

Startup 59

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs. But once they’re happy with a service, they can help build trust with new customers as well.

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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.

Payment Solutions 52

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The Angel VC

APRIL 11, 2016

For some reason we keep finding great early-stage SaaS startups in France, and it's not because of my command of the French language. In the last few years we've invested in four awesome SaaS companies from France: Algolia , Front , Mention and Critizr. Something is clearly going on in France, and we like it.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

The initial concern of every ambitious entrepreneur is to keep their startup costs as low as possible. Several best startup tools and resources help minimize startup costs, but they also assist in saving precious time for savvy business people. What if you can get your hands on the best tools for startups?

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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. So, was about number 20 at Twilio.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market. In short, those are SubscriptionFlow’s two biggest sources of attraction in the already saturated marketplace of SaaS billing.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 80

ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

EY, TrustRadius, G2, SIIA CODiE, and APPEALIE have recognized ChurnZero’s platform, team, and customers in areas ranging from technological innovation and customer success services to the strategic vision of its senior leaders. ChurnZero has quickly become one of Washington, D.C.’s For more information visit [link].

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Differences and similarities between Latin American/Brazilian startups and Silicon Valley startups are discussed, with a focus on challenges related to data ownership, regulatory and intellectual property rights, and fostering innovation.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem. In their case, it meant targeting logistics companies whose messaging and notifications strategy were a great fit for Messente’s service. Expand with your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook. When Workplace became a real thing at Facebook, I was in London.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are plenty of “non-tech” companies that purely manipulate bits; as an example, virtually every financial services company is “atom free” in terms of ultimate products sold. How many small Shopify merchants might want the exact same service? Inside sales? billion, against almost $2.8 The curves simply do not meet. All of them!

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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. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps refers to succeed through your own efforts without relying on investments or help from anyone else. Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. Basecamp is a bootstrapped company, for instance.

Payment Methods 110

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 8, 2023

For companies in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, this is particularly true. Why expert help is essential in growing your SaaS brand When it comes to growing your SaaS business, it can be challenging to determine which areas to prioritize, especially if you’ve hit a plateau or are running a startup.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. Navigating the channel.

Outsourcing Services 111

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ChurnZero

MAY 17, 2022

EY, TrustRadius, G2, SIIA CODiE, and APPEALIE have recognized ChurnZero’s platform, team, and customers in areas ranging from technological innovation and customer success services to the strategic vision of its senior leaders. ChurnZero has quickly become one of Washington, D.C.’s For more information visit [link].

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Technical Review Headcount Software Review 52

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Besides overseeing your own team, the Ecommerce Manager is also responsible to work with other departments, like the product team, operations, and customer service. Depending on how big the software company is, the ecommerce team may also include a dedicated IT tech, customer service reps, and finance and accounting personnel.

Payment Methods 79

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub. Customer service as a model for growth. Kaitlin: It makes a ton of sense.

Scale 188

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Invest in your security program. Therefore it is essential to invest in your own security program and ensure that every link in your ecosystem follows a similar approach. GDPR makes organizations accountable for data breaches caused by third-party service providers. What makes a strong privacy ecosystem. Confusion = no trust.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When launching a startup or adding a new product, common advice is to start with a minimum viable product (MVP). Dopple has been careful which customers they invest in, making sure that their product roadmap aligns with where they continue to see the “hockey puck” moving. It starts with self service. We hit it pretty hard.

Payment Methods 142

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2018

For product builders, it’s never been harder to get discovered in such a crowded marketplace. It’s no wonder that companies like Slack, Salesforce and Intercom have invested in an ecosystem made up of smart people building things in one place, allowing customers and developers to adapt and create the tools they use to work better for them.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

LTV, or CLV, is the predicted amount a customer will spend on your product or service while they’re your customer. Suppose a person subscribed to your service. So, the number of customers or subscribers who stop using your service during a given time period is the churn rate. The logic behind this metric is simple.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 26, 2010

2010 has been a big year for the company in other ways as well: In March we announced that we've taken a minority investment from and entered into a strategic partnership with IRIS, the leading supplier of software for accountancy practices in the UK with over 14,000 practice customers (50% market share!). And there's more to come.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2018

FastSpring Received Major Investment from Accel-KKR. Accel-KKR’s investment and on-going support will enable us to build a world-class ecommerce platform that powers billions of dollars in transactions and connects people globally in one digital economy. I’m excited to share some of the major highlights below: 1.

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The Angel VC

JUNE 13, 2014

In fact, according to this Bloomberg story , Uber's new valuation sets a record for investments into privately-held tech startups. Also, the expensive "private limo" service, which Uber started with in the beginning, didn't appeal to me. at a $17B valuation. What is it that makes Uber so compelling? I think so.

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