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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. We taught a free class, got 7,000 people in the free class, and I started emailing everybody in that class individually, personalized emails, one by one, a thousand a day. We can quit our jobs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. There’s a link here.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer? Imagine you went into a retail store and started a conversation with a sales rep. How to bring formal sales into a growing startup. What’s not to like?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Support: Check for extra costs related to customer support, whether or not they offer support in your language (if you’re running a global sales team), and how you can get in touch with the CRM’s support team (via phone, email, etc.). An established marketplace is a sign that you’ll have the integrations you need in the future.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Leadership can leverage your BPM platform to track tons of useful data for measuring productivity, forecasting costs, and further refining processes. Set rules that automatically route tasks, files, data to the right person or team. Scope out the solutions on the vendor website to see examples of who’s having success with each product.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. We have relationships with the biggest CRM companies: Oracle CX, SAP CRM, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce (95% of our marketplace). It was relatively new to that marketplace at the time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin. I have been at Stripe for about four years. Stripe’s ecosystem is quite large and thriving.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

As the marketplace shifts, new constraints are giving rise to new opportunities. Adjust your pricing model to accept deferred payments for highly-impacted industries. Out of anything I could ever say, please know that your marketplace will always speak the loudest. The marketplace is flooded with people. Image source.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

There is no such thing as a perfect revenue model, but the popularity of some of the methods below suggests that many of them are well-tailored for the current state of the market. 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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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model.

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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. . Another area where quality must stand out is in customer service. Large enterprise clients operate in highly competitive marketplaces and sectors where it takes a lot of effort to make a difference.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. 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. web services. Nick : Pretty good?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Wooden on Leadership. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. Steal Like an Artist. The Decision Book.

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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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. My account runs my website. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. How are we going to do that?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. In a lot of larger companies, they’re completely okay with giving you two or three year payments all up front.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 22, 2024

This framework focuses on improving the cybersecurity posture of essential and important entities within vital sectors across the European Union (EU), like energy providers, health organizations, and digital service companies. No more playing games when it comes to keeping critical infrastructure and services secure.

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FastSpring

JUNE 2, 2025

Likewise, in the tech-meets-ecommerce space, there were very few SaaS companies out there, live service gaming didnt really exist yet, and software companies wanting to sell their software globally had very, very few options. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services.

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