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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

One major difference between a DIY solution like Stripe and an MoR solution is support around compliance and risk. When you move all of that responsibility to a third party, then you can really focus on your core product. Global compliance, fraud, and risk management. Managing your global VAT, GST, and sales taxes.

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then we can use the security and compliance and control that IT would actually buy into to control those accounts. On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users. You really have to find product market fit.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you're really starting from scratch, do the product. Do a bunch of change and even pivot to get to product market fit in that stage. Growth is not really secondary. You want to have some users, some customers to help you validate whether your product is solving their problem. I tested freemium versus free trial.

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The 10 Forms of SaaS Capital: From Inception to Exit

Baremetrics

For top-tier programs ( YC , Techstars , 500 Startups ), you need to be a top 10% company, fitting a near-term venture capital profile across your team, your product/market and your traction. In SaaS, more focused on revenue and revenue growth rate. Programs vary in terms of their competitiveness. Things to Consider.