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SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank (Pod 617 + Video)

SaaStr

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, joined Matt Plank, VP of Sales at Rippling, to unlock the secrets to exponential revenue growth. Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace .

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Outsource Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting. Outsource undifferentiated heavy lifting. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Choose standard technology. Choose standard technology.

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3 Reasons Why You Should Consider Outsourcing Your Ecommerce – Part 1

FastSpring

Successful software companies across the globe understand that partnering with a full-service ecommerce platform is the key to growing their business. Keep reading to find out why outsourcing your ecommerce can empower you to stay competitive in the global software marketplace.

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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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Reshaping the Software and Services Marketplace – A Guest Commentary in E-Commerce Times

Think Strategies

In the old information technology (IT) world, systems integration and consulting companies flourished, helping enterprises of all sizes across nearly every industry pull together a plethora of proprietary systems from a wide array of software and technology vendors. Despite the promises of the cloud, not much has changed.

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In-House or Outsourced: Which Ecommerce Solution is Best for Your Business?

FastSpring

There comes a point in your company’s lifecycle when you must decide between outsourcing your ecommerce operations or continuing to keep everything in-house. Keep costs under control — An outsourced agency can mean big bucks, especially if you’re just getting your footing. Outsourced Ecommerce Solution.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel. Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow.