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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Business Model Payment Facilitation Business SaaS 130

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Prospects were confused over how the marketplace worked and the sales team struggled to explain it.

SaaS 243

SaaS Business B2B Scaling 243

IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple’s growing status in enterprise IT expands just a little more with news that cross-platform device management company JumpCloud,now offers its service via Amazon’s AWS marketplace. Identity, platform agnosticism, and the future of IT.

AWS 101

AWS Enterprise Marketing Management 101

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? What is Walmart Marketplace? Why Should I Sell on Walmart Marketplace? It’s all about moving with the times.

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Payment Facilitation Pricing Sales Subscription 145

Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? Given this new dependency on freelance laborers, it makes sense that LinkedIn, the most successful professional social networking site, would set its sights on creating a marketplace that allows freelancers to connect with companies searching for contract talent. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

Social Media 144

Social Media User Experience Advertising Strategy 144

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Pilot’s leading team of US-based experts, supported by elegant software, delivers world-class bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services trusted by growing businesses like yours. Tilled was created to empower software vendors, marketplaces, and SAAS companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit cards. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 14, 2020

If you’re selling physical products, and you’re only relying on ONE channel to bring home the bacon, it’s time to switch things up with Facebook’s social commerce platform, Marketplace. What Is Facebook Marketplace? Facebook Marketplace is like Craigslist and eBay…only better. It’s Free to List an Item.

Sales 142

Sales Mobile Pricing Business 142

Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

Influencer marketplaces can help you do just that, so let me show you how they work. Let’s explore the mysteries of the influencer marketplace. Influencer marketplaces: These marketplaces help you match with various influencers in your niche. What Are Influencer Marketplaces? What’s the answer?

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Engagement Social Media Subscription Metrics 124

Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 18, 2022

Most of the world’s leading consumer marketplaces looked like completely different businesses at their inception. Amazon was famously an online bookseller, while Uber started as a black car service. The post When to Expand Your Marketplace Business, According to 14 Operators appeared first on Future.

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Business Travel 79

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

Retention 189

Retention Onboarding Product Marketing Marketing 189

Think Strategies

JUNE 11, 2018

So, it’s not surprising that the demand for IT services — including upfront consulting, systems integration and software development skills — also has escalated. Yet, there are several important differences in today’s IT services requirements that set them apart from the demands and offerings of the past.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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B2B SaaS Revenue Retention 59

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.

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B2B SaaS B2C Retention 83

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Should you purchase through a third-party marketplace? Do you need extra services that a Value-Added Reseller can provide? Now, they’re service providers bringing SaaS into their portfolio of products and services to serve their customers better. The VARs of old are no longer — the ones who just implement software.

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SaaS Software Azure Sales 213

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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IT World

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Reflecting the growing popularity of the Mac platform , Mac cloud and SaaS provider MacStadium's Orka Platform is now available to purchase at the AWS Marketplace, a move that brings Orka to Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Mac my devs up Orka Workspace is a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution that delivers Mac desktops through the browser.

AWS 101

AWS SaaS Cloud Development 101

Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

B2B 72

B2B Scaling SaaS Healthcare 72

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. .

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Cloud Software Trends Data 77

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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SaaS Business Model Business Acquisition 84

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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. Two Related Products Are Key to Growth.

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SaaS Revenue Software Cloud 302

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Platforms-as-a-service.

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SaaS Subscription compliance Revenue 214

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.

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Embedded Payments SaaS Enterprise readiness Software 251

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.

Business Model 52

Business Model Payment Facilitation Business SaaS 52

IT World

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Federated Wireless is launching a turnkey 4G/5G service through a partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure that runs over Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), which the Federal Communications Commission opened up to public use in January. To read this article in full, please click here

Azure 64

Azure Management Cloud Wireless 64

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). .

Cloud 52

Cloud B2B SaaS Sales 52

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. In between, Google operates an advertising marketplace, AdX. This data enables the marketplace to amass census scale data on supplier performance, granular to the type of service rendered. The first SEMs flourished in advertising.

SaaS 107

SaaS Data Advertising Acquisition 107

Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 30, 2021

We are entering a new age of ownership, one where investing is … The post The New Age of Ownership; When Fintech Meets Marketplaces; Creator Tools for Active Investing (July Fintech Newsletter) appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The new age of ownership.

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Investment 95

Entrepreneur - SaaS

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The fund raised will be used for product enhancement and team expansion

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SaaS Trends 52

Casey Accidental

MARCH 26, 2018

One major gripe journalists cite about food delivery marketplaces (more so UberEats than Grubhub due to its higher fees) is that restaurants operate on slim margins. Therefore, if food delivery marketplaces are charging 15-30% for delivery orders, restaurants are not making any money. Misconception #1: Restaurant Margins.

Advertising 45

Advertising SaaS Marketing Retention 45

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. Atlassian does not project an increase in its Marketplace revenue as it incentivizes partners to build on their platform. I like to see this, going long here. You can see a deep dive on that with Atlassian’s CRO below.

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Headcount SaaS Cloud Scaling 311

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Whether you’re a product or service-based business, it’s never too early to start planning your holiday promotions. Do you really need a seasonal promotion if you sell services, though? In fact, the run-up to the holidays is a perfect time for any service-based business to find customers and start the new year on a profitable note.

Business 118

Business Social Media Advertising Sales 118

OceanX

APRIL 20, 2022

USPS First-Class Package Service. The USPS First-Class Package Service is back in the sights of cost savings. Last year, the USPS hinted at slowing down this service by removing it from the air network, but never really followed through. Once again, this is poised to roll out next month. eCommerce and Retail.

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Trends Marketing 52

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. A good take rate for a marketplace. While not unexpected, its a similar distribution to both other marketplaces and many SaaS businesses.

SMB 270

SMB SaaS Enterprise Retention 270

Sales Hacker

MAY 16, 2022

My company is the first Integration Marketplace as a Service, so for context, we enable Business to Business SaaS companies to build and enter in-app marketplaces. When do you have 15 minutes on Friday or Monday to chat about our service? Subject line: integration marketplace. Will’s Rewrite.

Mobile 91

Mobile SaaS Growth Marketing Sales 91

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers just joined the parade of software companies going public. The Fiverr filing sets up a comparison of Fiverr versus Upwork, the grand-daddy of freelancer marketplaces. Upwork Versus Fiverr: A Different Approach to Services. We call this the Service-as-a-Product (“SaaP”) model.

SMB 40

SMB Business Model Software Scaling 40

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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Revenue Data Venture Capital CTO Hire 110

SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Entering a crowded marketplace as a new business can be intimidating, especially when established players with a solid customer base surround you.

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