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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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Captive pricing is a confusing concept for many, but in practice, it’s relatively simple. Captive pricing happens when an accessory product is necessary to purchase in order to use a core product. This is also called by-product pricing. It can be challenging to determine pricing models for captive products.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Captive pricing is a confusing concept for many, but in practice, it’s relatively simple. Captive pricing happens when an accessory product is necessary to purchase in order to use a core product. This is also called by-product pricing. It can be challenging to determine pricing models for captive products.

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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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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. There are two popular brands used in the CRM and customer service space – Zendesk vs Freshdesk. It equips the sales, marketing, and customer service teams with the necessary tools. Freshdesk is suited for small businesses that want a basic CRM.

Payment Solutions 52

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of the Pricing Transformations series. Pricing Transformations in 2020. Pricing Transformations in 2021. Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. Take carbon pricing.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, selling on a wider range of marketplaces gets your products in front of a larger audience. We already touched on one of the main reasons to seek other venues: the perils of depending on one sales platform. If you haven’t already established yourself on one of the alternatives to Amazon, your business could tank.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Yeah, great.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Sometimes it can take as long as seven years before you can sell your business and hop on the next idea. Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

As long as you find a platform that looks professional and handles the billing and analytics properly, you’ll be in good shape, right? They pick the platform that will work for their needs now — and the one that makes the smallest dent in their budget. It pays to make the right choice of billing platform from the start.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Additionally, unlike small CRMs, enterprise CRM platforms are usually able to connect with many other tools. Lastly, an enterprise CRM platform is able to support more than just the sales organization.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. OpenView has been tracking growth rates by ARR scale for four years running. Experiment with a usage-based pricing model. It’s a win-in.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. As John Durrett, General Manager of Payments for Storable, recently explained in a sit down with Payrix, Storable wants to make payments “invisible” for its customers.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In the ATS world, there is a range of prices you can choose from that help you stay on track financially. Are you looking for a hiring system that lets you integrate email campaigns, pre-screenings, or specific candidate analytics? Is testing a big part of your hiring process? Recooty’s pricing is straightforward.

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FastSpring

MAY 20, 2019

Readily accessible staff — Having a dedicated team to maintain your ecommerce platform means that your company can troubleshoot issues as they arise. If something awry happens, your business has the opportunity to correct the problem internally without having to worry about time-zones or remote workers. The Cons of In-house Ecommerce.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Before that, I was at a company called Grasswire, and in both of those companies we had to acquire customers for about 1/10th the price of our competitors. Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It documents the business your product is building, y et it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight.” ” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Now, for each segment, isolate its revenue and COGS.

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The critical nature of software for business growth is a key reason for the exceptional growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in recent times. Encouraged by the success and importance of SaaS, Australia has actively adopted the cloud ecosystem and founded brilliant SaaS-driven companies and platforms. Culture Amp.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. And, in the case of Unity, the damaged trust from their recent pricing change execution has left the community seeking alternatives. A cloud based, modular application can offer many different UX’s.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

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. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 web services. And you said you kept the pricing on the website?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How does Rob think through pricing today in a way that encourages land and expand? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. What does it take to expand effectively?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If everybody’s just doing a little sliver of the work, how do you roll it up into a meaningful business case? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. I don’t know anyone right now.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With that said, there are definitely CMS platforms that are better than others, depending on your specific use cases and unique scenarios. There are specific elements that you need to consider as you’re shopping around and evaluating various CMS platforms. These platforms let you customize everything using the HTML code of your site.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

These tools make it easy for anyone to launch an ecommerce business by building a website from scratch. So if you’re interested in selling products or services on the web, you’ll need to find an ecommerce builder to create your online store. Beginners should aim for platforms that don’t require coding. Business Stage and Size.

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