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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. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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

OpenView Labs

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead.

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

FastSpring

On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. Corporate learning is really enterprise SaaS.

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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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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%. So how can we do more of that?

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How to Build Your Own SaaS Partner Program (with Landing Pages)

Unbounce

I think channel distribution is one of the most promising and untapped acquisition channels for SaaS?—?especially especially for SMB SaaS startups. Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. Why should I build a partner program for my SaaS business?

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products?