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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Do you really need to know what phase your company is in?”. Are we still a startup? Pre-Startup.

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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. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 152
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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. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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How Pendo Leverages a Great Product, Customer-centricity and Strong Culture for Success

OpenView Labs

The idea for Pendo arose out of a need I had experienced first-hand while working as the VP of Product at an enterprise SaaS business. Like many others in the SaaS space, we adopted a product-led approach to growth. Those strategies make sense for a lot of companies, but there are outlier cases that make use of other models.

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Katie Burke on company culture: building a better work culture

ProfitWell

While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul. Takeaway: For a culture to be strong, everyone needs to be on board. Chances are you'll hear some nuance in there.”. We want people to grow.

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How Stripe Built a Sales Organization to Successfully Sell to Developers

OpenView Labs

In our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we work with both small startups and public companies, helping them remove the complexity of processing the payments that are the heartbeat of every business. Stripe is a company built by developers, for developers. This isn’t the typical SaaS sales approach.