Eyal: Expert marketplace SaaS models make their real money on usage
Eran Eyal · They hit $100k/mo in revenue in 2015, now raising $2.5m round of funding with Eran Eyal episode 188 · Mar 5, 2016 · at 5:35
Eran Eyal is the founder and CEO of Springleap. He outlines the pricing structure and margin mechanics for enterprise SaaS expert marketplaces.
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“And generally those kind of SaaS models in the expert marketplace world generally range from, let's say, you start at a thousand dollars per, you know, per company, per city per month, and then you pay for the use of the experts. So your thousand dollars to 10,000 dollars a month Usually helps to service the company and to give them access to your technology and, you know, account management, and where you really make your money afterwards is on the usage.”
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