Point Nine Land

MARCH 10, 2020

A strategic analysis after evaluating multiple service marketplaces Over the past few years, I’ve come across a huge number of service (or labor) marketplaces: the countless Uber for X companies, the marketplaces for lawyers, therapists, cleaners, architects, construction workers; you name it. Sounds complicated?

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. So goes the story.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Pilot’s leading team of US-based experts, supported by elegant software, delivers world-class bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services trusted by growing businesses like yours. Tilled was created to empower software vendors, marketplaces, and SAAS companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit cards.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having a hard time choosing the perfect customer self-service software? This article covers: Key benefits of the self-service method. TL;DR Customer self-service software is any tool that can empower your customers to access help resources and troubleshoot issues independently. You clicked on the right guide.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today? Prior to Homebrew, Satya was VP Product at Twitter, building and leading the Product Management and User Services teams.

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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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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. In between, Google operates an advertising marketplace, AdX. Because SEMs deploy SaaS to both the supply side and the demand side, these companies can develop an exceptional understanding of their market.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2013.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. but 30% comes from its so-called “Hospitality Cloud” which is really a marketplace for event services. Cvent’s margins are pretty low for a SaaS company.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. App stores also make it easy for app developers to distribute their apps.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

Are you looking for Zendesk integrations to boost the efficiency of your self-service customer support? SmileBack is a feedback app designed for helpdesk solutions so you can evaluate your customer support services effectively. As of 21 July 2023, there are 1,503 integrations in the Zendesk marketplace.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. Horangi provides cyber security solutions based on SaaS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

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.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2020

Tomorrow as part of Algolia’s SaaS Expert series I’ll be talking about scaling top SaaS companies. Meet #SaaS expert Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO of @SaaStr , and hear what companies he recommends to create the right #product framework and scale a high-performing #SaaS company.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping 80 million people every year make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. The SaaS development market evolves rapidly and, according to Fortune Business Insights, by 2030, will reach 908 billion dollars. Businesses of any size and industry can find reliable SaaS development partners.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Within the 200 ICOs I analyzed, there are tens of next-generation infrastructure players and a twenty or more platforms-as-a-service. Blockchain startups have already targeted major buyers of software, from email security products to job marketplaces, from legal products to human resources software.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

In less earth shattering news, the fact that it's 2017 also means that my "SaaS Funding in 2016" napkin needs an update. As a reminder, in the original post I tried to give a "back of a napkin" answer to this question: What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016? So, what does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in early 2017?

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. A good take rate for a marketplace. But it should be. 20% of clients represent 80% of the revenue. So it’s never too late!

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is no secret that in order to grow a SaaS company, business leaders need to consider cash flow. Invoice financing is an excellent option for SaaS companies looking for a fast and easy way to earn a short-term type of funding. What are the Benefits of Invoice Financing for SaaS Companies? Table of Contents. Invoice financing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

Never let it be said that SaaS can’t generate a lot of cash at scale. #3. Should you have annual price increases in SaaS? Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. Atlassian does not project an increase in its Marketplace revenue as it incentivizes partners to build on their platform.

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Casey Accidental

MARCH 26, 2018

One major gripe journalists cite about food delivery marketplaces (more so UberEats than Grubhub due to its higher fees) is that restaurants operate on slim margins. Therefore, if food delivery marketplaces are charging 15-30% for delivery orders, restaurants are not making any money. Misconception #1: Restaurant Margins.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Reflecting the growing popularity of the Mac platform , Mac cloud and SaaS provider MacStadium's Orka Platform is now available to purchase at the AWS Marketplace, a move that brings Orka to Amazon EC2 Mac instances.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Expansion of Usage-Based Billing Models As consumers increasingly favor pay-for-what-you-use models, we’ll see a surge in usage-based billing across various industries, from SaaS and cloud services to media and telecommunications. Read More » What is the Technological Backbone?

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Think Strategies

MAY 21, 2018

Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of becoming affiliated with the rapidly growing Catalant expert network which has enabled me to extend my consulting services to a wider assortment of enterprises seeking help with their Cloud strategies.

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Entrepreneur - SaaS

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The fund raised will be used for product enhancement and team expansion

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 11, 2024

There are many lessons to be learnt from its success and its specific offering of features in the world of SaaS, all of which we will be going over in this blog. Benefits of Xero SaaS integration: A Guide Every business must have visibility into its operations and processes in order to succeed.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Most SaaS companies, on the other hand, treat pricing as an afterthought, setting it and then forgetting about it, rather than viewing SaaS flexible pricing strategies as ongoing processes critical to their success. Read more: SaaS Pricing Trends to Boost Sales & Revenue in 2024 Why do you need flexible pricing?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This post will walk you through what SaaS companies need to know about sales tax compliance, how to know when and from which customers you should collect sales tax, and best of all, how to automate sales tax so you can check “Do something about sales tax” off your to-do list once and for all. Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies?

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BetterCloud

MAY 25, 2023

SaaS spend management has become a prominent topic in businesses in 2023 for a variety of reasons, converging all at once. It is time to recognize that SaaS spend management alone is a temporary fix.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

If so, you’re in the right place, as this article discusses 15 tools that are excellent alternatives to Intercom and will help you optimize customer service processes and deliver outstanding self-service support. Help Scout is a customer service software offering shared inboxes, live chat, and in-app messaging.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

For the first time in a decade, IT services will become bigger than communication services in 2024. Gartner estimates that by 2027, nearly all of the growth in worldwide IT spending will come from software and IT services. As I said, that SKU has outsold any other new introduction we put into the marketplace.

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