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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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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. By 2013, there were 1 million Android apps on the platform, and the number has doubled to more than 2 million since then. That has turned into a big win for Google.

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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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Kellblog 2021 Predictions

Kellblog

Here’s Lynch’s website (now seemingly somewhat out of date) to hear his side of this story. Leadership matters. While it should get captured in remaining performance obligation (RPO) , so do a lot of other things, so I’d personally break it out. So, with that charitable scoring, I’m 7 and 3 on the year. To quote Edward R.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. David Schmaier: Sure.

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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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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. .