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

SaaStr

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

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The Complete Guide For Using Emotional Marketing To Increase Conversion Rates

GetUplift

This complete guide will give you the step-by-step process for growing your conversions and creating landing pages, funnels, websites and emails that make prospects choose you over your competitors. The article was only written to drive website traffic. Here’s how emotional marketing impacts different types of websites. .

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A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv and Socialcam.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. She is a coach who focuses on personal development, relationship building, success planning, customer engagement and retention, and customer journey. Erika is a person who heavily uses and encourages the use of processes and systems.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Rob. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez. Harry Stebbings: We are back.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Are you more excited about eCommerce? So, I’m just trying to learn.

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Eventbrite’s Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

Intercom, Inc.

This is part of an ongoing series of interviews about unlocking the potential of growth. Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. Adam: What was Eventbrite like when you joined back in January 2013 comparted to today? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat.