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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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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. As a result of this, marketplaces have exploded in growth, and here’s some facts and figures. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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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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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. These “digital native customers” are not afraid of startups and look for customer-centric products. These are great customers for startups. Almost every step requires paperwork and postal service, many entail physical presence.

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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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How to kickstart billion dollar companies

Intercom, Inc.

Instacart is valued at nearly $8 billion and since joining, he’s helped to make the company’s services available to more than 80% of U.S. Even with Instacart’s enormous valuation, he continues to see tremendous growth potential for the service, similar to what he saw in Instagram’s early days. Thanks for signing up.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. We had a marketplace payer solution. Can you guys introduce us to this company?