Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

B2B brands are finding huge success in the digital marketplace industry and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Globally, B2B marketplaces make up a $31 billion market. Amazon Business, arguably the biggest player in the B2B marketplace scene, grew from $1 billion to $10 billion in sales in only three years.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

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. I would have expected lower than 100% net revenue retention from Upwork, given that much of the spend can be episodic. But it should be.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Our suite of financial tools makes it easy to turn recurring revenue into flexible growth financing. Pilot’s leading team of US-based experts, supported by elegant software, delivers world-class bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services trusted by growing businesses like yours. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2022

Revenue up 91%, Customer Count Up “Just” 34%. As part of going upmarket, Monday’s 10+ seat customers are now 72% of total revenue, up from 63% just a year ago. Almost $400,000 in revenue per employee. This is pretty darn efficient, and Monday leverages its self-service roots to scale pretty efficiently. #7.

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FastSpring

JUNE 21, 2024

Per Kyodo News , “The law will prohibit the providers of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone operating systems, app stores and payment platforms from preventing the sale of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms’ own.” which have grown to wield significant influence over digital services around the world.”

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. but 30% comes from its so-called “Hospitality Cloud” which is really a marketplace for event services. The marketplace side took a bigger hit from the events shutdown during Covid (and also has lower gross margins), but is still a material contributor. #3.

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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. As the leading Support-a-Creator platform, Nexus assists publishers and studios in driving web shop traffic through dynamic, revenue-share-based partnerships with content creators.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Platforms-as-a-service.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

30% New Customer Growth Fueling 37% Revenue Growth. 30% of their revenues are still from customers running Jira and friends on their own servers. Headcount up 7%, while revenue is up 37%. But that only increases total headcount 7% which revenues went up 37%. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Impressive leverage.

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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. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Quote-to-Cash.

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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? 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 . Logo acquisition (i.e.,

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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. Salesloft is the provider of the leading sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Because of our overall differentiation, more than 18,000 organizations now use Azure OpenAI service, including new-to-Azure customers.” ” “Higher-than-expected AI consumption contributed to revenue growth in Azure.”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And with nearly 70% of global revenue for ISVs currently derived from third-party channel sales , no other approach to distribution ensures the exposure and revenue of the channel. These include product offering, scalable fulfilment, revenue operations, sales and marketing enablement, partner ecosystem and team culture.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. To drive the most revenue, both the CRM and PRM play integral parts in the partner tech stack.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Podcast Full Interview: Video Transcript Jesse Paliotto (00:04) Hello, everyone, and welcome to Growth Stage podcast, where we discuss how digital product companies grow revenue, build meaningful products and increase the value of their business.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? Your top-line revenue is growing. Nobody wants to refer a service that may not be able to deliver. Conan Economics or How to Crush Your Enemies with Expensify’s CEO: David Barrett. even if they say they did. Nothing else matters.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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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. 2 Bookkeeping. If your team wasn’t spread out across the country before COVID-19, it probably is now. 4 User support.

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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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Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions 148

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

It turns out, that what separates these elite revenue organizations from everybody else is an entirely new framework for uniting seller efforts with buyer needs. . 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.

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In sum -> Learning and understanding how to maximize the revenue per lead. No Revenues”. Drive your revenue per lead way up, and put you in place to jump on and close every practical piece of business that comes through the door. How do you deal with FUD in the marketplace? . Sales Strategy. No best efforts stuff.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. 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. .

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s a pull, not a push, when it comes to revenue expansion. So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps. Use the GTM motion that’s the opposite of the traditional GTM motion.

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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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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 21, 2020

However, the many opportunities available with print on demand services are almost limitless. Print on demand is a popular revenue stream or marketing strategy for many businesses, and for good reason. This can be an issue when it comes to customer service and general follow up. Who Uses Print on Demand Services?

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FastSpring

MAY 2, 2019

Successfully selling software and digital products in today’s global marketplace is harder than ever. Join our VP of Sales, Brian Deignan on May 9th at 10 AM PT to learn how FastSpring’s full-service ecommerce platform can help your company grow your revenue with a world-class shopping experience.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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