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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

A lot of startups out there tend to define themselves as startups who aspire to become a platform, and it’s quite nebulous to define. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Right, Renaud? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: If you’re starting a business, make sure you have the technical skills to build, manage, and grow your services internally. I felt that it was very interesting.

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Stripe’s James Dyett on a customer-first approach to sales

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on building services and products that meet your customer’s needs – not just today’s, but also tomorrow’s. My main focus at the time was not industry – I didn’t know anything about payments. Then, I started looking around at companies. James: Absolutely.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of. How to bring formal sales into a growing startup.

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