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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

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. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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The Hottest Startup Sectors in 2016

Tom Tunguz

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Founded : 2016. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . The Brazilian platform Superlógica is created with small service businesses in mind. Funding to Date : $6.6M

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

” Microsoft 2016 Annual Report You can read more about IDC’s analysis of Microsoft’s channel structure here. Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. Navigating the channel.

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6 of the Most Profitable Digital Products and Goods to Sell Online

FastSpring

value-added GDP in 2016 and employed 2.9 It’s important to remember that software can be any solution or service that is powered by code. Traditionally, developers would list their games on marketplaces or work with publishing studios to get their titles in retail stores. trillion to the total U.S. million people.