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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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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2013. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2013.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

And so in 2013, the marketplace launched Udemy for Business with an eye on acquiring corporations alongside the nearly two million learners they had at the time. 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. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2013. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2013.

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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. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. I was amazed by the app exchange.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

For roles like mobile engineers or data engineers, we tried to hire a database administrator for a long time and struggle with that. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition. The company was, their sales were quite a bit bigger than the other two companies. One moment, 10:00 AM, 90,000 tickets go on sale.