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When should you hire a CFO?

SaaSHolic

” Bookkeeping, planning, and modeling are skills and activities that someone in the founding team should perform at a good-enough level. Accounting and payroll should definitely be outsourced. It just so happens that these CEOs typically prioritize pressing operational needs (a sales rep, a developer, etc.),

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A Detailed Comparison of Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring (With Reviews)

FastSpring

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. More on this later.)

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

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When should you hire a CFO?

Point Nine Land

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. No proper finance or account until even after raising millions, even to $5m+ ARR. is but an experienced finance person can play a vital role in internationalisation as well. So, when is the right time to hire a CFO?

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing for SaaS & Software

FastSpring

Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So An easy place to start is to translate a landing page that explains your products and how to get in touch with sales.