SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

Scale 157

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In fact, more than 80% of Americans in the last year bought through Stripe, but obviously through a business that ran on Stripe.

Scale 123

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 123

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

Payment Solutions 95

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. In a SaaS business, you want to be anywhere from 4 to 6x, your on-target earnings from a quota perspective.

SaaS Payments 138

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 138

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. We had a pretty big team. Missed the session? Andrew Filev. It was before they even were called SaaS.

Sales Hiring 150

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 150

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Sales Models and Fundamentals. Our bank account takes a hit.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141