SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers.

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USIO

JULY 14, 2025

Whether you’re building a SaaS product, launching a curated box service, or running a subscription model, embedded payments aren’t just a backend upgrade. Usio embedded payment solutions are built to help you scale subscriptions, improve retention, and drive revenue—all while making life easier for your team. Let’s talk.

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USIO

JUNE 24, 2025

Embedded payments have become the financial backbone of modern SaaS, fintech, and marketplace platforms. This guide breaks down the top players in the embedded payments space, comparing revenue share models, payment rails, and — often overlooked but critically important — support and service quality. Print/Mail : Not supported.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 1, 2025

From offering innovative service bundles to managing intricate pricing structures, the ability to provision complex subscriptions seamlessly has become a competitive necessity. In this post, well explore how businesses can simplify complex provisioning and stay ahead in a market increasingly driven by personalized service packages.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This model, also referred to as metered billing, aligns costs with actual consumption, offering customers a fair and flexible way to pay for services. Technology Advancements: Real-time data tracking and billing automation systems now make it possible to implement metered billing models at scale.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are at the forefront of this evolution, leveraging recurring revenue models to build deeper customer relationships and drive growth. Reduce Operational Overhead: Delegating sales and distribution to partners minimizes the resources required to scale.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Over the past two decades, Salesforce has evolved from a sales CRM into a comprehensive platform spanning sales, service, marketing, e-commerce, and app development.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

However, companies must look beyond basic payment integration to evolve into platforms offering comprehensive services. I think we’re going to start to see that hit kind of mass scale over the next couple years is one example. Embedded Finance , Matt argues, is no longer optional for companies seeking to remain competitive.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Overview At June we’ve been lucky enough to see a bunch of amazing PLG startups scale and grow their product usage too. For just SaaS products (removing marketplaces, eCommerce, and DTC), the average activation rate is 36%, and the median is 30%. Let’s dig in. So what’s a good activation rate?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. It’s about growing together.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10. Note that Workables pricing is based on the number of active jobs and features, not per user, and it can scale to support large hiring campaigns. Higher Cost at Scale: Workables pricing can become expensive for larger hiring volumes (especially the Premier tier).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2025

TriNet’s full suite of HR solutions is designed to support companies at critical inflection points – from early traction to scale. Partner TriNet, a trusted HR provider to startups and scaling companies. This episode is a special one, and you’ll learn tactical advice on scaling vertical SaaS companies.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Scalability and security Built to scale with your business, with enterprise-grade security measures to protect your data. Self-service support: Userpilot empowers you to build and customize in-app resource center code-free. Zendesk Zendesk is an AI-driven customer service tool similar to Intercom in many ways. Appcues pricing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

Where the Real Opportunity Lives The biggest opportunities right now are in what I call “AI applications as a service” (AIaaS). wet lab data in life sciences) Superior data curation and annotation Narrow vertical focus leading to higher quality data Network effects that improve with scale 2. Enterprises need it to scale AI.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 17, 2025

You can integrate email, calendars, and more via the Salesforce AppExchange marketplace. Scalability: As your business grows, Salesforce can scale with you. Higher-tier plans unlock marketing automation , customer service (with Service Cloud), and advanced analytics. This means you wont outgrow the system.

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FastSpring

APRIL 3, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. In fact, our framework is called the Sole ID Framework because that is the way to differentiate yourself on the web and really grow and scale your business, I believe. Jump to video. Jump to transcript. Jesse Paliotto (02:53) That is awesome.

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Stax

MAY 6, 2025

While many platforms are built for getting started, not all are designed to support scale. In this blog, well unpack what scalability really looks like in a payment solution and how to choose one that wont hold you backwhether you’re just beginning to start accepting payments or scaling to new markets. Consider the following.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

TrackStreet

JULY 2, 2025

While the marketplace offers incredible reach and scalability, it also introduces risks that can damage pricing, reputation, and customer trust. Here’s what it takes to go from reactive to strategic — and how tools like TrackStreet can help you protect your brand at scale. To reduce risk, brands must diversify.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

As a lifecycle specialist in B2B growth, youll drive the strategies that accelerate time to value and expansion, rigorously test them, and scale what works. You play a vital role at the intersection of GTM, Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering – reimagining self-service in the age of AI.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

he was responsible for the operation of the global advertising marketplaces organization. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. in July 2007. At Yahoo!,

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TrackStreet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Solving Critical Industry Challenges at Scale By combining MikMak’s store locators’ ability to connect brands with nearly 10,000 retailers worldwide and TrackStreet’s monitoring of more than 165,000 websites and marketplaces, this partnership offers brands scale and insights that are unmatched by any other provider.

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Stax

MAY 5, 2025

A payment gateway solution is a service that authorizes credit card payments and processes them on behalf of the merchant. Fifty-three percent of smartphone users choose to buy company-specific apps from the Apple app store or Google Play marketplace rather than mobile websites. What type of business do you have?

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Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

That’s not being fair though; we need major players like MS who can deliver necessary, massive-scale platforms, and they need to flog the sexy bits so they can sell the boring ones; no margin, no mission, as they say. Alex Volkov’s Weights & Biases is known for their observability tool Weave. Bad for so many reasons.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

A product leader with 7+ years of experience in product management or a related field who has successfully built and scaled complex systems at a global level. Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers, designers, and external partners to build products and complex systems at scale.

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Stax

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This initial interaction can provide valuable insight into the level of service you can expect once you become a customer. One area that reviews can be particularly enlightening is for customer service. During the sales process, engage with the support team to assess their responsiveness and knowledge.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

User Pilot

JUNE 25, 2025

If you want to build a revenue engine that scales without sacrificing user loyalty, these are the tactics you need to know. Cons: Low conversion rates, high user acquisition costs, and requires a large scale to generate revenue consistently. You can always bundle additional services. Take Canva, for instance.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Strategy 66

Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2025

It’s a place to build a community of people who might benefit from your product or service. Social media monitoring tools help you gain qualitative feedback about your product or service and understand what people actually feel about your social media content. Here’s the thing: Social media is a two-way street.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Experience building, optimizing, and scaling programs and teams. Experience building 0-1 products, platform/ecosystem products, or marketplaces. Requirements 6+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of successfully launching and scaling platforms. Experience in AI , machine learning, or related fields.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But, with up to 1 million ISVs crowding the $528 billion cloud services market by 2027 , vying for the most strategic route to meet your customers’ demand depends entirely on how well an ISV navigates the ins and outs of channel sales. By doing so effectively, you can unlock a path to scaling profits. appeared first on SaaStr.

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USIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Two prominent solutions that have emerged in recent years are integrated payments and Payfac-as-a-Service. Payfac-as-a-Service: Payfac-as-a-Service, short for Payment Facilitator as a Service, is a model where a third-party service provider facilitates payment processing on behalf of multiple sub-merchants.

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Merchant Services PayFac as a Service Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 130

Stax

JULY 21, 2025

Now a global payment technology platform, Mastercard brands prepaid, debit, and credit cards in addition to offering a range of business and finance services globally. This is thanks to federal regulations and growing competition within the marketplace, which has helped make these features standard. Premium credit cards.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. 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. As a result of this, marketplaces have exploded in growth, and here’s some facts and figures.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

Data as a service (DaaS) is becoming increasingly popular. What Is Data as a Service (DaaS)? Data as a service uses a cloud computing strategy to make business data readily available to stakeholders and third parties. What Are the Benefits of Using Data as a Service Tools? Who Benefits Most from DaaS Tools?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scale-ups are exciting. Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. On top of considerable dedication, creating a scale-up requires a functional edge—a unique and unreplicable capability compared to the players in the industry.

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