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Going Global: Key Considerations to Drive SaaS Success Abroad

OPEXEngine

If you can sell from home – do,” says Daniëlle Keeven, VP of Finance at paddle.com—a merchant of record for software companies around the world. Ideally, a SaaS company would be light on its feet, and not have to register anywhere. Solution Demand. Payment Processing and Currency Management.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. They built their first company and sold it when they were teenagers. Dare I say SaaS.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. They built their first company and sold it when they were teenagers. Dare I say SaaS.

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What Are the Different Stages of a Startup: An Introduction?

SmartKarrot

The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money. This is the stage where the following things happen –.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. People pay with cash and how do you get that cash into your systems?

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Our next company SteelBrick was inspired by the first and SteelBrick was really a next generation CPQ and one of our audience members Lars Nielsen is right here. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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The Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. ” And now we have the first crop of hundred billion dollar SaaS companies, right? So, I think the burn side, right? ” No.

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