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How an Estonia-based SaaS Grew to €10M ARR by Expanding Across 3 Continents?

FastSpring

Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem. What Is Messente? Expand with your customers.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. The marketplace is designed to cut down on the time you need to sell your business and find startups to invest in. Micro Acquire.

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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. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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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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Top 25 SaaS EdTech Companies in 2020

SmartKarrot

The company then helps the more than 11,000 schools that use its services to analyze and act on the amassed data. Founded in 2013, it has issued 5000 credentials for its professional clients. An instructor shares its revenue with Udemy. The team designs the surveys (which can be taken securely via mobile) and administers them.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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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.