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

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

Scale 116
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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?”

Scale 161
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14 Niche Marketplaces to List Your B2C Services

Neil Patel

While some platforms (like Shopify) are free to set up, they can also take expensive fees for each sale. From there, you can either bid for jobs, pitch your services, or communicate with recruiters as a way of landing your desired project. No matter your expertise or industry, it’s free to create an account and profile on Koachee.

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What's up, Slack attack?

ProfitWell

Your top subscription news. Using research from more than 15k subscription and SaaS companies, Patrick dissects where companies fail and how we can avoid those critical mistakes. The list is pretty sweet if you’re looking for a knowledge drop on the daily (apart from subscribing to Recur Now, that is). Yet there’s still hope.

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

SaaStr

Felix : And then kind of as we raised our series B round where we said, okay, let’s try to build a really good and successful company, that’s when we shifted to a hundred percent subscription. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all. Felix : Yes.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014.