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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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A Look Back: Talkdesk, Greenhouse, Algolia and Gainsight Coming Up On $10m ARR

SaaStr

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. How’d you manage all that? Pro Harbaugh?

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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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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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How to Build Your Own SaaS Partner Program (with Landing Pages)

Unbounce

Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. This generates recurring revenue. Already pretty valuable, right?). That’s huge!