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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One

SaaStr

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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14 Niche Marketplaces to List Your B2C Services

Neil Patel

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?

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

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.” Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Average Revenue per Customer. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.