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Marketplaces in the Age of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

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.

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3 Key Automations to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Growth

SaaStr

With this unified knowledge, you can personalize interactions, proactively reduce churn, and enable upselling opportunities. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Integration Roadmap.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at Almost $3 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. Atlassian does not project an increase in its Marketplace revenue as it incentivizes partners to build on their platform. I like to see this, going long here. You can see a deep dive on that with Atlassian’s CRO below.

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How Yelp drove down churn by building up customer success

Intercom, Inc.

Kayti argues, “Even in self-service models, there’s a relationship that they’re feeling with your product.” That poor customer experience was becoming a huge risk for churn and lost revenue: “Our monthly managed revenue is basically just support and tickets, answering phone calls, getting back to customers when they have issues.

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A Primer on B2B Marketplaces: Challenges and Opportunities

Point Nine Land

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One

SaaStr

OK, adding in churn, you’re going to have to add another >$1m+ ARR … quickly. How do you deal with FUD in the marketplace? . Top-line revenue, inclusive of churn, inclusive of upsells and self-service, net of everything. Let’s say you hire your VP, Sales when you are at $1m in ARR.

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7 Hacks for Building and Scaling B2B Marketplaces

Point Nine Land

Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

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