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How to Start a Franchise Business

Neil Patel

Hundreds of companies offer franchise opportunities: which one is right for you? Do you want an online or in-person business? There are franchise businesses in travel, restaurant, convenience stores, websites, health and wellness, business, and much more. Do they offer financing? How much are licensing fees?

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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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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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. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. 50% of in-person conferences are never coming back.”

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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. We work with many of the companies who are here at SaaStr, Salesforce, Slack, Twilio, Zoho, and I hope many of you in the room. Dare I say SaaS.

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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. Payment Processing and Currency Management. Why Go Global?

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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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with MessageBird and Gainsight — October 18, 2019

SaaStr

The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. The company raised a monster $60 million series A from Accel and Atomico in 2017 with only one prior investor, being Y Combinator. billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones. So I’m intrigued.

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