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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Going Global: Key Considerations to Drive SaaS Success Abroad

OPEXEngine

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. There is a clear distinction between fast growth SaaS vendors (over 50% annual growth) and slow growth companies (less than 25% growth) between $100M-$500M. Company Registration. Local Hiring. One salesperson cannot do it all.”

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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 116
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story.

Scale 127
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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Making key hires. Securing first paying customers. Securing angel/seed money. **We Hiring executives.

Scale 74
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The Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. 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. You pay a subscription. ” No.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.