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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

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. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. MRR, obviously. This wasn’t the case.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

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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A Look Back: Talkdesk, Greenhouse, Algolia and Gainsight Coming Up On $10m ARR

SaaStr

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. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. How’d you manage all that? Nick : Pretty good?

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

It’s one of my favorite questions, even though it’s really not a financial or operating metric at all. . The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters. That talent pool has not kept pace.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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