SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service.

Payment Features 257

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 257

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the marketplace business model is evergreen, every new platform changes how and where transactions happen. Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. It will not only transform how products and services are sold — but also how they are made.

Marketplace as a Service 139

Marketplace as a Service AI Search AI Outsourcing Services 139

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. One way that developers have addressed rising costs has been to rely on outsourcing.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Investment Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service 93

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

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 158

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 158

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. So to combat this feeling (but, really, to maximize resources for greater ROI), companies sometimes turn to a partner for help with the heavy lifting. These partners shoulder some of the burden of sales, creating separate selling “channels” that expand a product’s reach.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

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.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98