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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. At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen.

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12 Niche Marketplaces to List Your B2B Services

Neil Patel

B2B brands are finding huge success in the digital marketplace industry and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Globally, B2B marketplaces make up a $31 billion market. Amazon Business, arguably the biggest player in the B2B marketplace scene, grew from $1 billion to $10 billion in sales in only three years. Data Capabilities.

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5 customer acquisition strategies for winning new customers

Intercom, Inc.

All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Mobilize your influencers to drive customer acquisition. Want more advice like this?

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment.

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AI Reaccelerating Cloud Growth

Tom Tunguz

“Because of our overall differentiation, more than 18,000 organizations now use Azure OpenAI service, including new-to-Azure customers.” At the time of acquisition, Github had about 25m users & projected to reach 100m in 2025. ” “Higher-than-expected AI consumption contributed to revenue growth in Azure.”

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). SaaS companies are known for their bold bets in an evolving marketplace, but these risks rest on a bedrock of metrics and data. Key takeaways.

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10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Cilingir

SaaStr

Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Expansion or retention is the new acquisition. Your expansion revenue should comprise at least 30 percent of your new acquisition revenue.

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