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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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How to Crush Your Enemies with Expensify’s CEO: David Barrett (Video)

SaaStr

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions. Nobody wants to refer a service that may not be able to deliver. Conan Economics or How to Crush Your Enemies with Expensify’s CEO: David Barrett.

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Sequencing Business Models: Can That SAAS Business Turn Into a Marketplace?

Casey Accidental

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. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel.

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Winning Strategies for Service Marketplaces

Point Nine Land

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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Andrew Chen on finding the “fresh powder” in growth

Intercom, Inc.

I hosted Andrew on our podcast to chat about the changing landscape of customer acquisition, how his “Law of Shitty Clickthroughs” manifests itself in today’s growth channels, and what the rest of us can learn from the likes of Dropbox and Uber. This creates an acquisition treadmill with built-in natural churn.

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How pricing strategy helps shape your entire business model

Intercom, Inc.

“Think of pricing along a continuum with self-service pricing at one end and enterprise at the other” As you scale and evolve your business, there are a few key questions to ask as you determine your pricing strategy: Do you anchor off competitors (if any exist) or substitutes? Gaining new customers. Goal of website. .