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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. Your product reviews on the G2 platform or in video testimonials demonstrate how much users love your product. Lesson 5: Build a successful company culture. Culture is a lasting differentiator.

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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

–Mike Tria, Head of Platform at Atlassian. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. COVID has challenged so many businesses to adopt SaaS and also drastically changed the sales process.

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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. Manual processes first. Know your forever user.

Scale 148
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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. Payment Processing and Currency Management.

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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 115
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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.

Scale 74