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

SaaStr

Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 What does this mean for startups and tech companies? Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup.

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What the evolution of cities can teach us about building platforms

Intercom, Inc.

Well over half of the world’s populations currently live in cities and this percentage is expected to rise to over 66% by 2050. Companies do the same, copying strategies and policies to engender the same growth or profit. We know that the world is urbanising at a faster rate than ever before. And cities follow this same trend.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jennifer Tejada: Now let’s turn to the role that automation can play in accelerating your strategy and your business and your customer outcomes. As a startup, we covered a lot of processes together really quickly out of necessity and we haven’t really had time or the wherewithal to go back to them and harden them for scaling.

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