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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

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

Scale 191
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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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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

PayPal has continued to skyrocket, and then, of course, Zoom replacing ServiceNow in the top five from 2020, as Zoom meetings, Zoom backgrounds, and for all of us, even a little Zoom fatigue is becoming a necessary and important element of our every day. Cloud Marketplaces. Product-led Growth. Usage-based pricing.

Cloud 191
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A Vendor’s Guide to B2B Ecommerce

FastSpring

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. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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Sales Accepted Leads: Your Ticket to Closing Deals Faster and Easier

Sales Hacker

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. How do you close it ?

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32 Omnichannel Technology Tools to Sell Anywhere, All the Time

Sales Hacker

You likely already know what customers will see when they launch a search for the products or services you sell. Self-Service. Notable Clients: PayPal, Vodafone, Marks & Spencer. Smoope specializes in multichannel communications, with messaging services built into websites and apps. Customer Interactions. Fulfillment.