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

SaaStr

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. 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. For example, in Kenya.

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Kellblog 2021 Predictions

Kellblog

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. I loved Manav’s vision for securing the set of cloud-based data services that we can collectively call the “data cloud.”

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

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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

OPEXEngine

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. At a Glance.

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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. Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. Amarachi Ogueji. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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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. So actually having a good process for getting that buy-in is extremely important. and Socialcam.