The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

So if you want to raise capital for your SaaS startup in 2017, investors will wonder if you can become a true system of record, build a real platform/ecosystem/marketplace or build a unique data asset over time. The latter option will get particular attention this year, so I highlighted that in the "Defensibility" row of the napkin.

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SaaS Marketplace as a Service Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 262

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . Neoway is a platform based on market intelligence and Big Data that helps companies with valuable insights for their growth.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

The data reflects this. Within the 200 ICOs I analyzed, there are tens of next-generation infrastructure players and a twenty or more platforms-as-a-service. Blockchain startups have already targeted major buyers of software, from email security products to job marketplaces, from legal products to human resources software.

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Blockchain Marketplace as a Service SaaS Payment Features 181

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Using RepVue, you can figure out exactly what people are making.

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 102

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Near is a platform that provides real-time data on places, people and products. from a seed round.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The country recently published guidance requiring providers of electronic services — select digital products and services — to register for VAT if they meet certain criteria and thresholds. Foreign e-services provider requirements What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services? What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services?

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Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 140

Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

Tokens might be used as stores of equity value, as a replacement for government money, to pay for a particular service, or simply as as collectible. Exchanges - exchanges are the marketplaces where people trade tokens to determine their value. These assets might be coins, tokens, NFTs and be used in different ways.

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Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service Banking Construction 267

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Cloud Marketplaces. Then lastly, something BVP has seen grow rapidly over the last year is the emergence surge and cloud marketplaces, which help B2B businesses find each other and transact in the cloud. ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Data and machine learning infrastructure accelerates to new heights. Product-led Growth. Usage-based pricing.

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Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 255

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). A CFO is a strategic partner serving as a trusted advisor, arbiter of financial data, and guardian against fiscal blind spots. Hiring a CFO. First: Why hire a CFO, anyway? .

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Sales Hiring Acquisition Forecasting Outsourced Development 48

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers. Unlike the first wave of SaaS software, machine learning startups benefit from the data their customers share with them. Each marginal customer provides additional data that refines the model. With machine learning, we may see another evolution of this.

Machine Learning 155

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Advertising Marketplace as a Service 155

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

When building your products, the security and privacy of your customers’ data needs to be a top priority. And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness.

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 220

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Let’s examine how an ICP focus has helped two businesses win in a competitive marketplace. . Use data to develop a laser focus on your perfect customer base. Foster customer relationships.

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Payments Payment Methods Embedded Payments Scale 236

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Infrastructure as a service is now standard, as are Platform and Software as a service. Cloud computing is dominant. The not so simple case.

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Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

In this talk, Lydia Kothmeier – VP of Operations – and Thomas Peham – VP of Marketing – will share their Upsies and Wowsies of hiring and onboarding an international team and building a global SaaS business – all the way from self-service to enterprise. How should marketing, sales, and product all work together?

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Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service B2B 289

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. The problem they set out to solve was just being made worse—a common theme in the marketplace. After extensive user research, data analysis, and internal discussion, Uber launched the feature—and it backfired.

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Travel Scale Marketplace as a Service Management 226

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

All of this thinking, planning and building culminated most recently in the launch last week of our App Partner and Service Partner programs , which unlocks new sales, marketing and technical opportunities for companies we collaborate with. Then you have to understand that you can’t be a platform without having that marketplace point of view.

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Marketplace as a Service Transportation Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 171

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In today’s episode, we welcomed Alex into our offices to chat about his love for SaaS, the challenges of starting a business, and the future of data collection. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: If you’re starting a business, make sure you have the technical skills to build, manage, and grow your services internally.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

IT World

APRIL 4, 2022

The market for patient healthcare data is booming. To that end, blockchain company Equideum Health and Nokia have announced plans build a SaaS-based marketplace where patient information is amassed for sale to researchers. To read this article in full, please click here

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Blockchain Healthcare Marketplace as a Service Data 87

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

RevOps has grown in importance as SaaS products have continued to proliferate and organizations have recognized the importance of good data, efficient workflows, and ensuring cross-department collaboration. Moving data securely between a company and its partners. These advantages will drive leads and close deals.

Payments 107

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 107

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

. “Your team will have all of the personalized customer data they need across a range of tools – all in one inbox” Once your team is free from the shackles of constant tab and context switching, they’ll have more time to better support and satisfy your customers. Quantitative data is meaningful. Issue tracking: Statuspage.

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Technical Review Customer Support Payment Methods Payment Solutions 249

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Scaling work: tuning the underlying technologies or process to help the product and team continue to be effective e.g. Uber rearchitecting its data pipelines. Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. The core self-service business was growing steadily at significant scale and was profitable.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

How do you deal with FUD in the marketplace? . Top-line revenue, inclusive of churn, inclusive of upsells and self-service, net of everything. EchoSign has a self-service component, and the Client Success team managed churn, and upsells were split between Sales and Client Success. 25% or more upside for exceeding that plan.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 363

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, selling on a wider range of marketplaces gets your products in front of a larger audience. However, by setting up multiple accounts with different marketplaces, you’ve got greater flexibility if things go wrong. And there are other benefits in finding additional marketplaces, like: Greater Flexibility.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 145

SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Metatext offers a solution to help SaaS entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as customer services, marketing and insights. Elevator pitch : NEO MED is a marketplace aiming to simplify the relationship between Clinics, Laboratories and Hospitals that need medical reports and the to physicians writing these reports.

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Startup Artificial Intelligence SaaS Construction 210

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. Most of us are not well-equipped to self-diagnose from a list of possible conditions, and our friends who work in healthcare often don’t have the exact expertise we need.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Marketplace as a Service Systems Review 129

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 115

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 115

Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

It includes: Facebook Ads Business Pages Facebook Marketplace Facebook Groups. Join the Facebook Marketplace. If you sell products online, check out the Facebook Marketplace. It’s free to list on the Marketplace, too. You can view this data in a report and then target these users with customized ads in the future.

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Social Media Marketing Marketplace as a Service Advertising 145

User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2024

The secret lies in first-party data. We’ll provide practical examples and actionable advice that will inspire you to create personalized user experiences based on data. TL;DR First-party data is information you collect directly from your audience or customers. Greater control and ownership over customer data.

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Data Social Media Interviewing User Experience 81

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it. 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. Customer data. Network effects (marketplace). Brand equity.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

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

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 18, 2020

However, Wanelo’s recent decline has made it necessary for online sellers to look elsewhere for the services Wanelo provided. However, over the years, the platform has become a marketplace that attracts 5 million diverse shoppers. As an early adopter, you could be able to grow a good following before the marketplace becomes saturated.

Merchant Services 145

Merchant Services Marketplace as a Service Social Media Systems Review 145

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

Software Review 220

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 220

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

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. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 152

Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

In 2017, companies will find success by getting back to basics and focusing on the “service” part of Software as a Service. In a self-service SaaS, you rely on customer success drip emails to generate your upgrade revenue. FE International has grown as a marketplace for buying and selling small-scale SaaS businesses.

Scale 152

Scale SaaS Marketplace as a Service SMB 152

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 147