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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. When I enter a city or country, who is in charge of that market’s success?

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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. Also last year, of the 10 fastest growing Internet penetration markets in the world, 8 of them were in Africa. Okay, so quite a few.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Sales customer insights. Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. Market insights: Topical themes and drivers that can open conversations.

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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. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Before seeing good success in the company.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with G2 and Gorgias — September 27, 2019

SaaStr

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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Making Trade-Offs In Marketing with Meagen Eisenberg (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The true test of marketers. Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. We’re going through layoffs and furloughs, recession planning and for me as the CMO, facing really massive cuts to marketing budgets and headcount.

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