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)?

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Marketplace as a Service Data Technical Review Marketing 76

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?

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Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 119

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

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” And then you’re gonna have as a merchant, as SaaS business so many charges due to that.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. Leveraging customer insights across your business. What do I love?'”

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

what the product strategy should actually be. 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. In other words, the product strategy lacked focus. Consumer Marketplace.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

Product-led growth is much more than a growth hack, pricing strategy, or industry buzzword—It’s an organizational framework used by B2B SaaS companies to answer one simple question: “How can we get our product to sell itself?” What Does Freemium Mean in Business? Is Freemium a Good Business Model?

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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

FastSpring

JULY 26, 2024

With so many marketing channels to manage to promote your game, combined with the complexity of monetizing your games on multiple platforms, in PC marketplaces, or even D2C via your own webshop, your head might be spinning keeping up with where to focus your efforts. Key strategies for interpreting your KPI over time. Listen now!

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Development Strategy Marketing Forecasting 159

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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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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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.

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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.,

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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.

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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. Strategy - annually changes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

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.

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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. Last year, Angie abandoned her two-sided pricing strategy. I am sad to see Angie’s List go.

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Business Model Marketplace as a Service Business Software Review 53

User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2023

Apart from offering delightful products, these companies have managed to successfully leverage their freemium strategy to drive product growth. Could freemium work for your SaaS business? TL;DR A freemium strategy is based on a free plan that offers limited functionality or usage for unlimited time. What is a freemium strategy?

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Strategy SaaS Onboarding Marketplace as a Service 97

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. Second (a corollary of the first): There is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture.

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Well Architected Framework DevOps as a Service AWS Traceability 130

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

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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Consulting Marketplace as a Service Scale Development 249

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.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 169

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. Want to learn more about harnessing the power of channel partner programs to boost your business, but confused about how to begin? Take a cold, hard your marketing and sales strategies. It can get a little lonely out there. We’ve got you. . Is there room for improvement?

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

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.”.

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Technical Review Sales Marketplace as a Service Banking 111

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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Marketplace as a Service SaaS Payments Payment Services Artificial Intelligence 40

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.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Box’s Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, Jeetu Patel, discusses migrating to the platform mindset. What makes companies like Box and Slack real platforms versus just products that have kind of great extensibility, and why do you think it’s important to their business strategy to actually become a platform?

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. This article will provide an in-depth look at the blue ocean strategy, including its origins, core principles, implementation, and measurement of success. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

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

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade. The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. 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. They needed something now.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 168

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 177

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 177

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. As Neil learned tips, tricks, and best practices, he decided to share what he learned on a blog to help other businesses find similar success. NP Digital Marketing Services.

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VP of Engineering Marketing Marketplace as a Service Social Media 126

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

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.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Neil Patel

APRIL 1, 2021

The Ellevest Instagram bio works because it clearly states who the business is for (by women, for women), the industry it’s in (financial services), and the type of business model it uses (membership-based). This gives the reader a good idea of the target audience and what they’ll achieve through the service.

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Social Media Business Marketplace as a Service Branding 137

User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

You can implement many software monetization strategies in your product, but picking the right one can be a challenge. TL;DR Software monetization helps generate revenue using various new business models to reinvest in development and enhancements. What is a monetization strategy?

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