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5 Lessons Learned When Scaling Product-Led Growth and Sales Motions Beyond $100M with Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy

SaaStr

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.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

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.

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SaaS: Is B2B Revenue Better than B2C?

FastSpring

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? Products Are Finding New Growth in the Opposite Segment. And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company.

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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. Listen to your team.

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How This Business Went From Losing $20,000 to Earning $1 Million in Just Two Years

Buffer Resources

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. Book sales: We make some money from this, but it’s more a marketing and authority building tool for the Collective. But in the first year, she made only $2,000.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

.” 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.

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

They Formed a Strategic Partnership With an Agency to Work On Their Brand Positioning Dopple’s team worked with Tomorrow , an ecommerce-focused agency, to shape their positioning. “We They have dimension, they have shape, they have personality. It’s truly about expression of that product. What are the values of the brand?