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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

The company culture you build. You want your customers to make the payment decision as soon as possible. In that stage, consider harnessing the power of case studies and tell the words in your customers’ words that your product brings real solutions. Lesson 5: Build a successful company culture.

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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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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

What does the future hold for B2B software? One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. Employee engagement software is another interesting area for SaaS. Consumerization of enterprise software continues.

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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. Know your forever user.

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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.

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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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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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