OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. There is a clear distinction between fast growth SaaS vendors (over 50% annual growth) and slow growth companies (less than 25% growth) between $100M-$500M. Company Maturity. Company Registration. One salesperson cannot do it all.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. The businesses we serve are either global, or on a path to it, so Stripe has to be global too. Despite what the business books might tell you, there’s no playbook for new market entry.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. If you seem to be gaining traction, now would be a good time to solve the problem of recurring billing, which most SaaS business models rely on.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user. Those strategies make sense for a lot of companies, but there are outlier cases that make use of other models. Principle 3: Build a Strong Company Culture. The experience had a big impact on me.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Would customers stretch out payment terms? Challenges: How would these constraints impact the business? What would the economics of the business look like? For example, they were just opening up an office in EMEA, but they chose to preserve these efforts, despite them not yet generating revenue. “It

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