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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. We work with hundreds of thousands of companies around the world on accepting payments, expanding globally, and increasingly on innovating their business models for the internet and for mobile. So what did Stripe do?

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Then they had to integrate with credit card processors, let’s not forget managing PCI compliance, building the auditing and reporting features you need for that, and what about fraud prevention. I think most people don’t know that online businesses are liable for fraud in a way that offline businesses are not.

Scale 116
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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was initially compliance focus. If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical. And then the next one that we best now is proving a business model. I don’t understand.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

Basics: The Building Blocks of the Finance Team To understand how finance teams impact an organization, it’s helpful to break down various functions and how they support the business. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

Scale 184
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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then we can use the security and compliance and control that IT would actually buy into to control those accounts. That’s how we got started in building our ecosystem. Ceci Stallsmith : Cool. I actually got to build Box’s early ecosystem with Niall, so there’s some extra fun stories there that we might go into.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014. The leading provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses was ranked in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. Having acquired over 15 million users in less than 7 years, Canva boasts of its product and business model. Eventbrite.

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Yes, SEO Is Still Important: 5 Predictions for 2021

OpenView Labs

Companies like TripAdvisor, Expedia, Casper, MoneyLion and others who build SEO into their business model have disrupted the industries they enter. SEO has such a strong business impact that when Expedia got penalized for bad “Black Hat” SEO practices in 2014, their stock dropped. Why is SEO so powerful?