Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. remains the largest interchange and software market, Matt predicts a loosening of regulatory constraints.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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. Tilled was created to empower software vendors, marketplaces, and SAAS companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit cards.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. While the overall category of Virtual Events software is in a funk, Cvent did OK. #2. 70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. It’s still around, too.

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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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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? Given this new dependency on freelance laborers, it makes sense that LinkedIn, the most successful professional social networking site, would set its sights on creating a marketplace that allows freelancers to connect with companies searching for contract talent. How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is a software training company that focuses on helping end users and companies be more productive. From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to help users achieve more with their software tools. Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. BrainStorm, Inc.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Buying software has changed significantly over the past 27 years. His first software-buying journey at age 24 involved researching in magazines, calling companies, and receiving demo CDs in the mail. What did software buying look like in the ‘90s? Software was physically shipped to you after purchase.

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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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Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

Data as a service (DaaS) is becoming increasingly popular. What Is Data as a Service (DaaS)? Data as a service uses a cloud computing strategy to make business data readily available to stakeholders and third parties. What Are the Benefits of Using Data as a Service Tools? Who Benefits Most from DaaS Tools?

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

That’s the way software works — without a salesteam. Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. Atlassian does not project an increase in its Marketplace revenue as it incentivizes partners to build on their platform. You get leverage. And a few more learnings: #6.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Now more than ever, an independent software vendor’s (ISV’s) path to profitability depends upon the strength of their go-to-market strategy. To help you accurately gauge your business’ channel proficiency, take a moment to download your complimentary copy of our latest white paper— The Software Vendor’s Guid e To C hannel Maturity.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

The thinking is that every successful software product will eventually be commoditized because it attracts lots of people who will copy the product and offer it for a lower price. The latter option will get particular attention this year, so I highlighted that in the "Defensibility" row of the napkin.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. We can’t wait to meet them.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Soon, we will be talking about how crypto will change the software world. Enterprise software has three layers: infrastructure, platform and application. Within the 200 ICOs I analyzed, there are tens of next-generation infrastructure players and a twenty or more platforms-as-a-service. But that’s myopic.

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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.” This reduces the time security teams spend writing, running and refining searches by 7x.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

Tokens might be used as stores of equity value, as a replacement for government money, to pay for a particular service, or simply as as collectible. Exchanges - exchanges are the marketplaces where people trade tokens to determine their value. Software vendors - a software ecosystem is blossoming around crypto.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Marketplace partners. In 2012, the website was transformed into the Atlassian marketplace, giving plugin developers the opportunity to make money off of their plugins.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

In software, we’ve moved from a world where a customer buys a piece of software to run on their own infrastructure, to a world where a customer pays a vendor to run software on the vendor’s infrastructure. With machine learning, we may see another evolution of this. Which is the right viewpoint?

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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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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Interested in customer relationship management (CRM) software that’s free forever? I’ve picked out the top five free CRM software products on the market. Let’s run through the important considerations that go into picking the right free CRM software on the first try. The Top 5 Options For Free CRM Software.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They’re not using time tracking software. Because no one should suffer any longer, I’m going to share the top five time tracking software options on the market today. The Top 5 Options for Time Tracking Software. How to Choose the Best Time Tracking Software for You. There is no third reason. Scheduling. Accounting.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Cloud Marketplaces. Then lastly, something BVP has seen grow rapidly over the last year is the emergence surge and cloud marketplaces, which help B2B businesses find each other and transact in the cloud. ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Diversity, equity and inclusion software taking their rightful place. Product-led Growth. Usage-based pricing.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. But how do you track and strengthen these connections? Userpilots pricing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

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. Only 27% of vendors report using a software tool to aid in creating, editing, sending, or tracking their sales docs. Client services – 22%. Treat deals as dynamic.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So it’s a marketplace, it’s a platform. and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript. Our job is to match them up and make sure that they can find a happy home.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

Software buying is undergoing a transformation, as is the case with many industries in the post-pandemic market. The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2020

— Topic: “The Essential Companies SaaS Relies On” The software-as-a-service marketplace is rapidly growing year after year! Before SaaStr and investing, he was CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, then the web’s most popular electronic signature service, from inception through its acquisition by Adobe Systems Inc.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And most of our data now as a software company it’s because that’s my background, but you as a sales professional can go to RepVue and view detailed analytics about sales organizations related to compensation data. And is it worse in software?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

ChurnZero, a leading Customer Success software platform, today announced it has been named to G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards, placing #31 on the Project Management Products list and achieving the highest rating for Customer Success software. About the G2 Best Software Awards. million trusted user reviews.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Software as a Service is currently taxable in about one-third of US states, and that number is only growing as outdated state sales tax laws slowly catch up with the way we’re doing business today. . Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

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. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. BPM software helps organizations of all sizes streamline operations and minimize waste. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you.

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