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Why We’re Thinking About Messaging Apps All Wrong

Hubspot

At this point there are more people on chat apps than traditional networks, and though that shift was several years in the making, some people experienced it as an overnight success," he explained. Research from Business Insider shows how quickly messaging apps have caught up to and surpassed social media network usage.

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

SaaStr

With electricity, a lot of African nations never had legacy electrical grids. The first thing we did was really pulled the unemployment angle quite aggressively. When we closed our first seed round, we were funded by Omidyar Network, which is a Silicon Valley investor. There was no silver bullet, I would say.

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Episode 35: Why Education and Training Are Key to Growing Manufacturing in the US

Spiro Technologies

As a result, I’m an electrical engineer by degree. Something like ‘The Social Network,’ but for manufacturing, or maybe even in a Marvel movie or something like that. Mike Nager: Yes, there could be a whole bunch of different angles. Maybe, Mike, before we kind of get into Industry 4.0 How do you envision that going forward?

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Episode 22: How Commtrex is Helping Modernize the Rail and Freight Industries

Spiro Technologies

And rail has a significant tailwind behind it because of the sustainability angle. The more nodes that you have on the network, so the more regional airports you have, the more people that you could move across the different regions of, of North America. You, you have a closed network. And you have several major ocean carriers.

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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

Sales Hacker

And so I found my angle there and everyone was installing Windows ME, which was a categorical disaster. Luke Rogers: Y2K. Everyone was buying wifi access points for the first time and no one knew how to set them up. And before I knew it, I just had unprecedented demand for the services. I would be thrilled to meet anyone that wants to talk.

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The Best of B2B Marketing Content: 9 Examples

Hubspot

But the moments like the one we described above are the ones that remind us: B2C companies haven't locked down all of the truly interesting marketing angles. If you’ve ever seen a growth marketer on the heels of a successful optimization experiment, you know that her energy is electric. Takeaway for Marketers. What It Does Well.

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The Best of B2B Marketing Content: 10 Examples

Hubspot

The Tax Time center, for example, is angled to fit the needs of both customer groups, providing tips for those just starting out, and guides for breaking through new stages of development. If you’ve ever seen a growth marketer on the heels of a successful optimization experiment, you know that her energy is electric. What It Does Well.

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