Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The master merchantis the primary account holder for a payment processing system, overseeing and managing multiple subordinate accounts, often referred to as sub-merchants. This setup is commonly used in marketplaces, software platforms, or businesses that facilitate payments for a network of sellers, service providers, or smaller businesses.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Intellum Platform includes all the tools an organization needs to create, manage, track and improve highly-personalized learning experiences for customers, partners and even employees. Take advantage of automation to manage your security assessments and NDAs. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. Net net, even from SMBs, Upwork manages 100% NRR, just as Shopify and Hubspot do from SMBs. A good take rate for a marketplace.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? What is Walmart Marketplace? Why Should I Sell on Walmart Marketplace? It’s all about moving with the times.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So everyone knows Salesforce, founded in 1999, originally to manage your salesforce. But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. Managed to Make the Most of Virtual Events. It’s still around, too.

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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.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

73 percent of hiring managers plan to continue or boost their reliance on freelancers. What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? While LinkedIn is no stranger to connecting individuals with available job openings, LinkedIn Marketplace aims to connect freelancers with contract opportunities. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Effective ways to market web shops outside of games to avoid violating anti-steering rules in mobile marketplaces. Many publishers simply don’t have the time or expertise to build and manage a web shop even with a DIY wizard while also building their games.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Managing the Quote-to-Cash process can be complex, since it covers the entire sales cycle, software licensing fulfillment, and revenue recognition, and it’s typically spread across many applications. By reducing bureaucracy, HR can lead strategic initiatives including change management and organizational effectiveness. Quote-to-Cash.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

We had a great one last time with Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital. It’s not the biggest one but we’re very proud of our investment in BuildingConnected, a SaaS plus marketplace company that sold to Autodesk. Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2022

BlueSnap supports payments across all geographies through multiple sales channels such as online and mobile sales, marketplaces, subscriptions, invoice payments and manual orders through a virtual terminal. Printfection is a swag management platform that simplifies the buying, managing, and distribution of swag and branded merchandise.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping 80 million people every year make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. It’s the everywhere workforce, working together.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Entering a crowded marketplace as a new business can be intimidating, especially when established players with a solid customer base surround you.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A content management system—CMS for short—gives you the ability to publish content on the Internet. There are tons of different content management systems available on the market today. This guide will help you choose the best content management system for your website. How to Choose the Best Content Management System For You.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nina Herold, EVP & General Manager of TripActions Travel, shares insights into her team’s tactics to tune into customers’ needs throughout the product experience. Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. Uber and Lyft bring rides to you with the touch of a button.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Another shift in the history of software buying is CFOs and management teams pressing buyers to negotiate short-term contracts. Should you purchase through a third-party marketplace? Do you need extra services that a Value-Added Reseller can provide? If you’re buying from a 3rd party, is a cloud marketplace a better option?

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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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 can help you safely manage your growth during times of increasing business complexity without overextending your runway.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But, with up to 1 million ISVs crowding the $528 billion cloud services market by 2027 , vying for the most strategic route to meet your customers’ demand depends entirely on how well an ISV navigates the ins and outs of channel sales. To assist you with this all-important self-assessment, CloudBlue is introducing our Channel Maturity Scale.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Funding to Date : $37M from Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital, and others. Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Nibo offers simple and efficient financial management.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Not having exemplary sales leadership: The sales lead should not just manage the dashboard efficiently. Mistake 4: The lack of enablement .

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Your office manager doesn’t have time to seek out the best prices on office supplies—let alone make new purchases every week.

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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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IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple’s growing status in enterprise IT expands just a little more with news that cross-platform device management company JumpCloud,now offers its service via Amazon’s AWS marketplace. Identity, platform agnosticism, and the future of IT.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Listen for the full insights into: How Flippa.com works to connect for-sale businesses with buyers while managing the complexities of valuation and seller expectations. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So it’s a marketplace, it’s a platform.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They underwrite and onboard the sub-merchants and provide them with the products and services required to process electronic payments. Chargeback reduction service Screens presentments and chargebacks and returns certain invalid items to the acquirer or issuer, as appropriate.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

Asset acquirers - these include brokerages, custodial and non-custodial wallets, banks, asset managers, hedge funds, market makers, and lenders. Protocols - Protocols are invented, created, designed, and managed by organizations and companies. This is the mental model I’ve been using. There are six key categories of players.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Online advertising serves as a potential model for how the machine learning software as a service ecosystem might evolve. This created an opportunity for companies like BlueKai and others to build a Data Management Platform, which aggregated all the publishers’ first party data and allow them to sell their data on a marketplace.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. Interested? Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

In today’s fast-paced B2B marketplace of instant communication and process automation , businesses cannot afford to rely on the classic definition of a deal. Client services – 22%. Sales managers, we want you to take a second look at this graphic. Treat deals as dynamic. Executive Leadership – 43%.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Once you’re past $20m or so in ARR, Strategy passes Tactics and goes higher on the list — once the VP Sales has a strong group of lieutenants/managers (e.g., Tell me about the teams you’ve directly managed, and how you built them. . How should sales and client success/management work together? . This is the last of the Top 5.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Cloud computing is dominant.

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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 ??.

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