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

SaaStr

However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa. By 2013, mobile penetration probably exceeded the 50% mark, and people who were up until then offline were now coming online with mobile as a primary means of accessing the Internet.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

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. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. It was actually late 2012, early 2013 where we looked at the growth. The marketplace was doing well. We looked at the numbers, and in 2012 early 2013 when we said, listen. It was healthy.

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

SaaStr

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Anita Nielsen. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach.

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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

Sales Hacker

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. So there already exists an app store or the Instabase Marketplace where these first-party apps, you can go online now, download an app for automatically processing bank statements or driving licenses or passports. And before I knew it, I just had unprecedented demand for the services.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. You need customer success, you need, you need professional services.