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.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

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.

Scale 261

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 261

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. Everything is done under one platform.

Payments 88

Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Finance 88

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 166

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 166

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.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? We had a marketplace payer solution. And then all of a sudden I remember last year the eBay announcement came out. Can you guys introduce us to this company? So we built lots of prototypes when we launched.

Payment Methods 155

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 155

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. Funding becomes more tight, which means that only the most impactful and disruptive opportunities get financed. Almost every step requires paperwork and postal service, many entail physical presence. but it’s a tradition now).

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40