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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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

SaaStr

Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? What is the process to do it efficiently? How should this data feedback into your product roadmap and pipeline? * Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Does it have to be in person?

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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?”. Finding channel/market fit.

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Move Thoughtfully and Create Things: Stripe’s 4 Steps to International Expansion

OpenView Labs

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. I joined Stripe in 2014 (initially in London) to build out our first international markets in the UK and Ireland, and then in New York where I set up our East Coast office and commercial operations.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. She has helped several companies grow and scale their business by developing streamlined customer success processes and successful customer retention strategies. Amarachi Ogueji. Anita Toth.

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

SmartKarrot

This is the stage where you identify an existing problem and understand how your product or service solves the problem. You may have already come up with an excellent business plan, implementation timeline, and also profitable marketing strategy; however, you may not have emphasized the importance of customer success at this stage.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And actually, one of the restaurants burned down and took our whole prototype with us, and that was pretty much the end of that company.