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

SaaStr

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.

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

SaaStr

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.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

While their target audience and the breadth of their solutions are the key differences, vertical and horizontal SaaS also share many similarities, in particular cloud-based hosting and subscription business models. Similarities Between Vertical and Horizontal SaaS Horizontal and vertical SaaS businesses can overlap in certain areas.

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. So Bela, you founded the growth team.

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The Need-to-Know Mobile App Marketing Resources for This Year

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Preparing for the future As an app marketer in 2019, the best way to prepare for mounting competition and further technological transformation, is to embrace a curious outlook, a dynamic approach, and an obsession with both professional and performance development. trillion hours by 2021.

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Unprompted: Can agencies survive the AI apocalypse?

Unbounce

How you can increase the volume and variety of your creative output using AI How you can improve your prompts If managing your data privacy is even possible in this new AI age Listen to the episode to find out about how (human) marketing agencies can fare against marketing robots… or maybe team up and create an even more powerful force.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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