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How to to Build a Worst-Case Scenario Using a SaaS Financial Model

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But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

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359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

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For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Banks use this, and Giraffe uses this.”

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

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In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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

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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. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

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This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Move money in and out.” I never … I know the-.

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A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator (Video + Transcript)

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If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We had half a million in the bank.