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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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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. The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there.

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. It starts with self service.

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. I realized that I was missing something fundamental in that first company that was deep product/market fit.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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4 Things Your Competitors are Doing to Emerge from the Downturn Stronger Than Before

OpenView Labs

Related: The Recession Planning Framework for SaaS Startups. Experimenting with product/market fit. Exclusivity : Your product cannot easily be copied. Profitability : Your product creates more cash flow than it costs. Experiment with product/market fit. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Achieve a goal.

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Eventbrite’s Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

Intercom, Inc.

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million