Marketplace as a Service Scale Software Engineering 
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2025
Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. This is exactly backward.
SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2022
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. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Customer acquisition.
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Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. They are called product engineers.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. “These are just some of the questions you need to consider when evaluating a payment service solution as these are the same questions your customers will surely ask you,” Levi says.
Outseta
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Founders agree to a salary cap (based off of the average salary of a software engineer in the nearest major city), and can increase their salary up to that cap as the business makes money. As opposed to a VC we don’t necessarily need to know the best VP of Sales candidate in healthcare tech in South Carolina.
Point Nine Land
APRIL 21, 2021
Since then, I have been leading Uberall product team, which we’ve scaled from 3 people to 12 people over the past 5 years. There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. In SaaS vs. marketplaces?
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