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

SaaStr

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. When mobile came along, they just leapfrogged straight to mobile. I’ll go easy on you. So my name’s Anish.

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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. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions.

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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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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. Founded : 2013. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. HSBC’s PayMe is among its customers. .