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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. However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

And so in 2013, the marketplace launched Udemy for Business with an eye on acquiring corporations alongside the nearly two million learners they had at the time. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Benchmarking LinkedIn's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. Unlike most SaaS companies who offer a single product, LinkedIn offers three: Talent Solutions, Premium Subscriptions and Marketing Tools.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). Short on time?

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

I’ve been working remotely since 2013, when I walked into the office of the best boss I’ve ever had and asked for permission to work remotely. For example, if the product isn’t up to snuff or if the onboarding process is just a bit rough, even perfect execution by the sales and marketing teams will yield lackluster results.