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From Stealth to Unicorn in 11 Months: Top 5 Lessons Learned with Drata CEO Adam Markowitz and Cowboy Ventures Partner Amanda Robson (Video)

SaaStr

But once you begin to scale your business, you realize that you also need principles in place to strengthen your appetite for growth and expand profitably. Every SaaS company strives to adapt to the emerging changes in the market as soon as possible and achieve sustainable growth. The company culture you build.

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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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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. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Names stick.

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

Chargify

How long is a startup a startup? It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Are we still a startup? There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Pre-Startup.

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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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Missed the session?

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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.

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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. If your solution is built to make the world a better place, it naturally extends beyond borders.