Definition Marketplace as a Service Payment Features 
Neil Patel
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Consumer marketplaces are essential to connecting businesses with consumers looking for services. That is where B2C niche marketplaces can help. Niche marketplaces allow businesses to leverage the power and branding of larger platforms to reach their target audiences. What Are B2C Niche Marketplaces?
Casey Accidental
OCTOBER 20, 2020
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. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.
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SaaStr
MARCH 31, 2022
What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.
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. Note: I am blatantly stealing Brandon Chu’s platform definitions for this.
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. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel. So our platform is also built for them to use. Andrey: Exactly.
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
So naming just one as the definitive “best overall” option is impractical. With that said, there are definitely CMS platforms that are better than others, depending on your specific use cases and unique scenarios. You’ll have to install your own security plugins to adequately keep your site safe.
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2020
One is two thirds enterprise, one third consumer, some healthcare as well now, and I would say, over the last few months, we have still continued with the same areas that we were excited about before so very much in marketplaces and consumer subscription and SAS. And so that’s definitely an area that we’re investing in.
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