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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Nils Hammar and the art of getting people to turn up
Founder · Operator · Executive

Nils Hammar and the art of getting people to turn up

From Skype to family trees to classifieds in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ghana, Nils Hammar kept returning to one question: what makes people find one another? Saltside gave him several answers, including a retreat and two sales to a rival.

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Company
Saltside built the marketplaces. Then its rival came shopping.
Marketplace · Ecommerce · Consumer

Saltside built the marketplaces. Then its rival came shopping.

The Swedish company behind ikman turned local classifieds into a business worth buying. Its journey through Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria shows what money can build - and what it cannot hurry.

online-classifieds · emerging-marketsRead →