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

SaaStr

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. ” At this point we were offering the service for free.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Economies of scale. Brand equity.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly.

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What is Marketing Research? Examples and Best Practices

User Pilot

This process helps you understand what motivates your customers, enabling you to tailor your products and services to minimize risks from the start. Technological progress now facilitates examination efforts on both structured and unstructured datasets effectively addressing large-scale analytical complexities. Interviews.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket. Linda: Yes, absolutely.

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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. OpenView has been tracking growth rates by ARR scale for four years running. This is most visible among publicly traded companies.

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

FastSpring

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. Were interviewing larger customers, figuring things out, and they were in Houston. Ryan Austin 15:53 Yeah, we don’t do any service whatsoever.