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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Founded : 2013. Some of its top uses include financial services, e-commerce, marketing, education, and many more. . Founded : 2013. Founded : 2013. Funding to Date : $6.6M CEO : Marcelo Lombardo.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Yes, the tech giants could develop the software these micro startups are making, but by the time it’s ready for market, a competitor might have rolled a similar product out and taken all the glory. It’s usually much cheaper to acquire a startup that has done the legwork than get an idea internally developed. Micro Acquire.

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How an Estonia-based SaaS Grew to €10M ARR by Expanding Across 3 Continents?

FastSpring

Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem. What Is Messente? Were they not delivered?

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The most exciting Latin American SaaS Startups

SaaStock

Elevator pitch : Construct develops a field communication platform for construction projects. Founded : 2013. Through automated content and survey delivery, we improve and accelerate the process of integrating, developing and acculturating new employees. Don’t hold back, this is a rare opportunity. Based in: São Paulo.

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The Hottest Startup Sectors in 2016

Tom Tunguz

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% The interest spiked around the ratification of Obamacare.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Prospects were confused over how the marketplace worked and the sales team struggled to explain it.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

This is giving rise to this phenomenon called leapfrogging, whereby African countries are circumventing the normal pathway of economic development and jumping straight to the latest thing. So you can see how technology’s starting to play a very important role in development of Africa. Here developers are dime a dozen.

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