Mass SaaS: Thinking about SaaS on the Consumer Side | Andreessen Horowitz

Not surprisingly, consumers view subscriptions at home very differently than at work. In the workplace, SaaS promises increased productivity and organizations are happy to buy software that improves the efficiency of their employees.

My personal favorite are these vertical SaaS marketplaces. They start as vertical SaaS software, then layer in a marketplace later on. Usually, it begins with a software solution that is focused on a highly technical business problem. For example, a software provider may give away or charge a very low fee for something that has high intrinsic ... See more

Whether it’s SaaS as the preferred delivery method for software products, monthly subscriptions for music / video streaming, newspapers, newsletters, podcasts, or physical products, subscriptions are infiltrating nearly every business model.