SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? Despite their primarily sloppy execution, some of the world’s largest and most admired businesses share one thing in common: they were all built using the right business economic model. Nothing else matters.

Scale 311

Scale Marketplace as a Service Advertising Business Model 311

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They demonstrate spectacular growth and expansion while revolutionizing and disrupting industries with new business models. How Atlassian does business . The Atlassian business model is unique. Marketplace partners. Businesses work with solution partners to help their brands accomplish specific goals.

Scale 264

Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Entrepreneurship 264

Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

Data as a service (DaaS) is becoming increasingly popular. Businesses using DaaS platforms can see improvements in data collection, usage, and management. Additionally, offloading data management to DaaS companies means more internal capacity for business development. What Is Data as a Service (DaaS)?

Marketplace as a Service 76

Marketplace as a Service Data Technical Review Marketing 76

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Sage Intacct is a popular choice for automating bookkeeping because it includes features unique to the SaaS business model.

Business 331

Business Marketplace as a Service AI Search compliance 331

The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

That concern isn't new, of course, but given how crowded most SaaS categories have become by now, investors are increasingly looking for additional ways to build moat around a business. VCs need outliers to make their business model work, but that's not your problem. Enough words. Here's the 2017 SaaS Funding Napkin!

SaaS 262

SaaS Marketplace as a Service Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 262

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

If its time to sell your SaaS, app, or other digital product business, listen to or watch this episode of Growth Stage now! Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So it’s a marketplace, it’s a platform. What got you into this particular business model?

Scale 109

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 109

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Or, it might originate as an intrinsic reason, such as when Atlassian decided to move their business model to become a SaaS platform. So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps.

Scale 278

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Construction 278

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Online advertising serves as a potential model for how the machine learning software as a service ecosystem might evolve. In the 2000s, Google and others built global machine learning models for ad targeting across websites. It also would challenge the business model of the SaaS startup.

Artificial Intelligence 186

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Advertising Marketplace as a Service 186

SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). And if NRR drags while GR remains high, what changes might you make to your business model? Gross Retention. Are customers churning? And if so, why? Failing fast in action.

Sales Hiring 49

Sales Hiring Acquisition Forecasting Outsourced Development 49

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.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

A free trial is often seen as the quickest way to get customers signed up and using a SaaS product/service, but it comes with several strings attached. What Does Freemium Mean in Business? A freemium business model allows companies to build up a large initial user base at no additional costs. 30 or 60 day trial period).

Business Model 74

Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 147

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam.

Marketplace as a Service 112

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 112

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

Marketplace as a Service 59

Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: One of Aircall’s superpowers is that it built an App Marketplace – and then opened it up for partners to build their own integrations. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. Short on time? That’s the power of becoming a platform.

Marketplace as a Service 186

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Government Retention 186

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. Julia, our CEO, had told me she wanted me to focus on growing the self-service business faster. So I gathered as much information as I could about these different strategic initiatives, as well as digging into the core self-service business.

Technical Advisors 140

Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S.,

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This setup is commonly used in marketplaces, software platforms, or businesses that facilitate payments for a network of sellers, service providers, or smaller businesses. This model allows sub-merchants to focus on their core activities while benefiting from streamlined access to payment services.

Merchant Services 100

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 100

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But when we turn to this protocol, what we’re effectively looking for is: Someone who knows enough to help us navigate to the right type of service (e.g. The size of the prize Not only is this a great opportunity to improve human health, patient experience, and provider experience, but the business case is also very clear.

Artificial Intelligence 129

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Marketplace as a Service Systems Review 129

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 9, 2017

Established in 1995, Angie’s List was the pioneer in the home services marketplace. Angie’s business model was a prominent differentiator from its competition in the home services market. But Did the “Right” Business Model Win? I am sad to see Angie’s List go.

Business Model 53

Business Model Marketplace as a Service Business Software Review 53

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. Ask your own engineers.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

David Cancel of Drift often talks about letting your ideas “ cross-pollinate ” and mental models can be a catalyst for that. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Network effects (marketplace).

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 52

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.

Outsourcing Services 165

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 165

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Invoice financing is an attractive funding option for B2B and service-based businesses. They offer an intuitive marketplace that fast-tracks invoice payments and quickly increases cash flow for SaaS companies. Stage #1: Company ABC sells their invoice on a financing marketplace such as Crowdz. Pro Tip: Check out Crowdz !

Payment Features 98

Payment Features Finance SaaS Payments Payment Services 98

CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Onboarding operationalizes your user model by expressing it through tenant context.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework DevOps as a Service AWS Traceability 130

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Workplace is about connecting people.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

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.

Payment Solutions 182

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 182

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.

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. They needed something now.

Acquisition 174

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 174

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 174

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 174

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?

Consulting 249

Consulting Marketplace as a Service Scale Development 249

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments. Makes sense, right?

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Content Marketing 156

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis.

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

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?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

The Angel VC

JUNE 13, 2014

Also, the expensive "private limo" service, which Uber started with in the beginning, didn't appeal to me. Related to that, Uber has constructed its business model in such a way that the drivers aren't allowed to take tips, so you don't have to think about how much tip to give. But is it also a great business? I think so.

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Payment Methods 104

Sales Hacker

MARCH 7, 2022

Influenced by their experiences with consumer marketplaces and leaning into their own technological comfort zones – buyers are more than capable of finding information on their own. The best sales model in the world cannot make up for a flawed business model. It also varies depending upon whom, and where you’re selling.”.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Sales Marketplace as a Service Banking 111