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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. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. And it has been since 2017 or so! But that took time. Your partner?

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

SaaStr

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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What is Product-Led Innovation? Strategies, Examples, and More

User Pilot

Read on to learn all about this product-led growth model. TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. PLG and SLG differ in focus: PLG centers on product appeal for growth, while SLG relies on sales strategies and personal interactions.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

Ryan Dunagan, VP of Marketing at Spotio. The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Mike Tria, Head of Platform at Atlassian. ” –Jeff Beckham, Head of Product and Content Marketing at Mixpanel. Exit multiples will continue to grow.

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Growth Marketing Strategy: What It Means and How to Do It in SaaS [+ Examples]

User Pilot

Are you struggling with creating an effective growth marketing strategy? With more players entering the SaaS market and the growing use of digital technology in marketing, traditional marketing alone cannot sustain your business. What is growth marketing? What is the growth marketing framework?

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

SaaStr

You’ll never scale revenue if you can’t get two people to hit quota. Even a stretch one before you have two reps that hit quota because a head of sales’ job is to hire reps three through 300, not to create product market fit. But you can’t hire a growth marketer, a true demand gen marketer too early.