Marketplace as a Service SaaS Software Engineering 
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2025
Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components.
FastSpring
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. SaaS companies may not be the most likely target when it comes to payment fraud , but it does happen.
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SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2022
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. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products?
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Facebook and Google provide an easy to use, high precision advertising engine that lets you target any cohort of people in the world. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. Rather than paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income once they are employed and making over $50,000 a year.
FastSpring
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Additionally, because digital products exist as either a digital asset or piece of software, they can easily be reproduced and repeatedly sold without manufacturers. Are you an artist, author, software engineer, or maybe just a hobbyist in your field? When it comes to selling digital products , your title doesn’t matter.
Outseta
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
This post is for other early stage SaaS companies who are similarly considering whether some of these new forms of capital make sense for their business. Founders agree to a salary cap (based off of the average salary of a software engineer in the nearest major city), and can increase their salary up to that cap as the business makes money.
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