SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares his journey to more than $100M and the lessons he learned along the way for building a PLG motion and an Enterprise sales motion. It was founded by three developers who owned a consulting firm previously, helping startups come to market. It wasn’t the focus.

Scale 256

Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Development 256

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

.” So what are maybe one or two things you want to give as advice to founders who are doing sales in the very early stage, the first couple of million ARR, that you feel are super useful in that stage in kind of trying to develop that, I think that sales muscle, if you will. So hire that person as early as you can find her or him.

Sales Hiring 222

Sales Hiring VP of Engineering Payment Methods Scale 222

User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. Product-led innovation focuses on developing a personalized product that naturally attracts and retains customers. User persona example.

Innovation 78

Innovation Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 78

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. The same goes for the website, customer support, and user onboarding. Focus: Product and Customer Journey. Focus: Customer Onboarding and Face-to-Face Conversion.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ll see more services companies adopt a product led growth strategy but for selling their services online. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. It’s early but I’m interested to see how the space and capabilities develop.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 96

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In some markets like Germany, we’ve seen sellers triple their conversion rates just by getting things like payment methods right.”. In a recent study of SaaS companies, Paddle found that 40% of those who expanded internationally reported having new, scalable sources of growth among other benefits. Your messaging is off.

Payments 186

Payments Scale Revenue SaaS Payments 186