SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

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. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. They love SaaS products.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 241

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Integration of the marketing and product tech stacks. New approaches to user-centric marketing and product. Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). Are there marketplace dynamics? How quickly will users pay for this product?

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Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 145

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer? What’s not to like?

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Identify your target market. To find qualified prospects, you’ll need a thorough understanding of your target market. You have poor product/market fit.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 118

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. In 2015 Randy had kept pace with the growth in the market. Competitors were increasing their market share and Randy was falling behind.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. Is there a customer success playbook that I have to develop?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 194

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 12, 2021

Don’t make the call about who you are, your company, and your product features. Leslie Venetz , New Business Development Director at Procurement Leaders says starting out on the right foot is critical. LeanData’s VP of Sales Development, Rob Simmons , uses Kaia , a new real-time conversational intelligence tool from Outreach.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

An experience that is well aligned with your product: has the candidate been working in B2B vs B2C? In SaaS vs. marketplaces? We use a separate Jira project for the following reasons: Jira because it is well integrated into…Jira where we manage all our developers’ tickets. How are you coming up with the best solutions?

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. They often have developed personal relationships with a degree of instant trust that’s hard to replicate from afar.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131