The Angel VC

MARCH 18, 2013

Here's another post in my series on DOs and DON'Ts for early-stage SaaS startups : 6th DO for SaaS startups Fill the funnel Or: Focus on inbound marketing, but try lots of things and double-down on what works In this post I'm going to write about lead generation for SaaS startups.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Within the 200 ICOs I analyzed, there are tens of next-generation infrastructure players and a twenty or more platforms-as-a-service. Blockchain startups have already targeted major buyers of software, from email security products to job marketplaces, from legal products to human resources software.

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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. The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Marketplace partners.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . CEO : Tiago Dalvi. Founded : 2015. Based in: Curitiba, Brazil.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

So if you want to raise capital for your SaaS startup in 2017, investors will wonder if you can become a true system of record, build a real platform/ecosystem/marketplace or build a unique data asset over time. The latter option will get particular attention this year, so I highlighted that in the "Defensibility" row of the napkin.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers. Unlike the first wave of SaaS software, machine learning startups benefit from the data their customers share with them. Many times, machine learning startups create one global machine learning model that is used across the customer base.

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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. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 11, 2015

Starting with why is a simple but powerful framework for startups to develop a unique marketing message, particularly in a competitive marketplace. It’s not that they think most suppliers are particularly bad on brand, product, or service. Values campaigns start with the why. ” Source: CEB.

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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 the biggest difference between the two of those statements is one, low value to sort of medium and high value, and then two, the actual service layer built into the technology underneath the hood.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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. Fadada is a SaaS-based provider of electronic signature services. Funding to Date : $1.3M

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 10, 2020

A strategic analysis after evaluating multiple service marketplaces Over the past few years, I’ve come across a huge number of service (or labor) marketplaces: the countless Uber for X companies, the marketplaces for lawyers, therapists, cleaners, architects, construction workers; you name it. Sounds complicated?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Startups building analytics products command roughly 10% of both seed and series A dollars. Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Marketplaces have rocketed from a 2.5%

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

5 Critical and Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups with Y Combinator : Anu Hariharan , Managing Director at Y Combinator, will share key learnings from top B2B startups and how these pivotal lessons help founders build in any sector. How should marketing, sales, and product all work together? GET 20% OFF!

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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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The Angel VC

AUGUST 25, 2017

We will continue to focus on two business models: SaaS and marketplaces SaaS We use a broad definition of SaaS. What counts is that the startup is aiming to solve a big enough problem for a large enough number of potential customers in order to build a big business. We are open to all of C2C, B2C, B2BC and other types of marketplaces.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

.” Build a product that disrupts legacy processes The most successful startups are ones that identify an unfulfilled need or an unresolved pain point and create a solution for it. Amazon now delivers goods and services to your front door within the hour. Uber and Lyft bring rides to you with the touch of a button.

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FastSpring

MAY 2, 2019

Successfully selling software and digital products in today’s global marketplace is harder than ever. Whether you’re an up and coming startup or an established enterprise-level company, this strategy can be very resource intensive and as a result, many companies often find themselves focusing more on one at the expense of the other.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

What does this mean for startups and tech companies? Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. There is no startup ecosystem to speak of. ” At this point we were offering the service for free.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

Instacart is valued at nearly $8 billion and since joining, he’s helped to make the company’s services available to more than 80% of U.S. Even with Instacart’s enormous valuation, he continues to see tremendous growth potential for the service, similar to what he saw in Instagram’s early days. Thanks for signing up.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . 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. .

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. I saw both sides of the marketplace, which was a lot of fun.

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The Angel VC

APRIL 11, 2016

For some reason we keep finding great early-stage SaaS startups in France, and it's not because of my command of the French language. Besides our SaaS investments, we're also proud investors in StarOfService , an online marketplace to hire a wide range of professionals. Something is clearly going on in France, and we like it.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. From Wall Street to startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Penetration testing and regular vulnerability assessments are services that help you assess applications and your infrastructure for security vulnerabilities and the overall effectiveness of your security controls. GDPR makes organizations accountable for data breaches caused by third-party service providers. Confusion = no trust.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service. And service many times means it’s human beings doing it. So how does this even work with software as a service.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms. The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: One of Aircall’s superpowers is that it built an App Marketplace – and then opened it up for partners to build their own integrations. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. How can we provide the best service at every single interaction?”

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Kayti argues, “Even in self-service models, there’s a relationship that they’re feeling with your product.” We love the marketplace you’ve created.’”. Informal advocacy is equally important. We love you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 26, 2010

myGengo is a crowdsourcing marketplace for human translations – think Amazon Mechanical Turk for translations. Even so, the young startup is of course just scratching the surface of the huge, multi-billion dollar translation industry, which makes me extremely excited about the opportunity ahead. Konnichi wa , myGengo.

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