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How to Start a Franchise Business

Neil Patel

Starting a business is a major endeavor. One way to shorten the process is to become a franchise business owner. As a franchise business owner, you can tap into the resources and branding of a large brand—while still maintaining the autonomy to run your own business. Do you want an online or in-person business?

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Missed the session? Dare I say SaaS.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

We’ll see more services companies adopt a product led growth strategy but for selling their services online. Productizing their services and enabling contactless and frictionless selling.”. Focus on more flexible business models. 50% of in-person conferences are never coming back.”

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? What is the process to do it efficiently? Does it have to be in person? Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Even though, the ACV does not rapidly expand with the business.

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Move Thoughtfully and Create Things: Stripe’s 4 Steps to International Expansion

OpenView Labs

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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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And actually, one of the restaurants burned down and took our whole prototype with us, and that was pretty much the end of that company.