Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. The Types of Marketplaces.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 19, 2024

In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way businesses operate, offering scalable solutions accessible over the internet. This shift has not only transformed internal business operations but has also significantly impacted external market dynamics.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. How have you structured the business model or even the product to make that type of viral spread easier?

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. It turns out that software delivery velocity has been proven to correlate with greater business success. Aligning your SaaS business strategy with SaaS technical architecture is critical to SaaS success.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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DeepStream

JULY 27, 2020

Since the days of yore, our mother-tongue has been primarily derived from two dialects – the B2B or the B2C business model. Businesses have been “talking the talk” by creating their entire communication based on the receiver – either a consumer or a company. The fact is that businesses do not have emotion.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

According to Bessemer ’s State of the Cloud 2021 as of this January, there were a total of 527 private unicorns (a unicorn is a private company with a valuation over $1B), with a total cumulative value of more than $1.9 Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . trillion dollars. Here is a simple formula to calculate ARR.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Business Type and Requirements. Although inventory management software is versatile, only a few cater to specific niche industry initiatives and business models. Moreover, every business has its unique needs, and your business is no different. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) Inventory Management Systems.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. Case in point with Salesforce’s cloud CRM vs. SAP and Oracle’s on-site/perpetual license model. Understanding Growth Potential.

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Totango

MARCH 20, 2019

This means that our solutions can now be found in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace , and Oracle CX customers can take advantage of our innovative customer success technology to operationalize customer centricity across their organizations, complete their digital transformation and realize positive business results.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge. How many small Shopify merchants might want the exact same service? Inside sales? All of them!

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User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2023

Dropbox, Slack, and Grammarly are great examples of companies that have successfully harnessed the power of the freemium model to drive growth. Freemium is a business model which gives users free access to the product. Want to see how Userpilot can help you execute your freemium strategy? Book the demo !

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The landscape of agile monetization is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new business models. This decentralization can significantly reduce fraud, streamline operations, and build trust between service providers and consumers.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. Embrace the cloud operating model. Sticky after all.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So that’s going to require solutions that are cloud based that you can spin up in a matter of days or weeks versus a matter of months or years. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York. It’s a business crisis. And I think Salesforce has learned a lot since then.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model. And we just have never seen this in the cloud before.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

Be carefully bold about affecting change and helping to guide the company in an evolving world and marketplace. Remember that as you shift or evolve your business model, that you will need to also evolve and iterate on your reporting, even for smaller companies. . Managing your service portfolio and delivery expectations.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Organizations across all industries were forced to completely change business models they’d followed for decades in just a matter of days. For example, our clients in the hospitality industry used Totango to pivot and survive by quickly embedding digital best practices straight from the Totango SuccessBLOC marketplace.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 12, 2021

VAIRKKO is an online cloud HR and LMS software company that provides innovative and affordable HRIS and Training Management solutions exclusively written for businesses within the small to mid-sized marketplace. The SPINS service model doesn’t allow for 100% coverage of a CSM to every client.

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ProfitWell

MAY 21, 2019

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. Finding proper market fit should be part of any business model as it’s the place where customer acquisition happens in the early stages of your company. You have to look at the marketplace and understand how people are actually finding their success.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Software-as-a-Service business model has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years because of its low entry barrier, flexibility, and scalability. The SaaS business space is constantly evolving, and it is welcome to new ideas and innovations that can change the world and provide effective solutions.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We’re a cloud content management platform. Stripe’s ecosystem is quite large and thriving. Ceci Stallsmith : Great, and Niall.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model. When this happens, fix the product, pivot the business model, or expand the distribution channels. Creating a marketplace does just that. Watching margin compression ensures vigilance against irrelevance.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

The data was collected as part of Exactis’ service as a “compiler and aggregator of premium business and consumer data,” which they then sell for profiling and marketing purposes. There are lots of services for this, but my recommendation is to sign up for a Discover Card and use their security center.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Onboarding Hero – VAIRKKO VAIRKKO is an online cloud HR and LMS software company that provides innovative and affordable HRIS and Training Management solutions exclusively written for businesses within the small to mid-sized marketplace. The SPINS service model doesn’t allow for 100% coverage of a CSM to every client.

Healthcare 52

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 5, 2021

Needless to say, in a market filled with cloud-based SaaS solutions, the demand for product operation becomes apparent. It is a specialized discipline that combines technical expertise with business acumen. Products can be software, hardware, or even services. Product operation is a key aspect of product management.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age.

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Stax

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Consider the average transaction size and volume your business handles, as some processors are better suited for larger transactions, while others are ideal for high-frequency, low-amount payments. Does your business model include recurring billing? Read the complete guide on these pricing models here.)

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