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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. Fred is a prior customer of FastSpring and now serves as an advisor.

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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

Twelve years after hiring their first CS person, customer service is still the number two reason people like Cloudinary and what drives word of mouth in the developer ecosystem. Lesson #2: Create Credible Technical Content Cloudinary didn’t have a marketing organization. They outgrew it and asked what to do next.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

What does the future hold for B2B software? Other big themes were around data, the continued adoption of product led growth, and building communities. We’ll see more services companies adopt a product led growth strategy but for selling their services online. Consumerization of enterprise software continues.

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

User Pilot

Choose the right monetization model that aligns with your product’s value and user payment willingness. Product-led growth metrics like product qualified leads, activation rate , onboarding completion rate, and CLV define customer success in product-led innovation. Let’s dive into what makes this product-led approach tick.

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Register for “Globally Scale Your SaaS Business by Streamlining Online Selling and Finance Operations,” an In-Person Roundtable With Frederic Linfjärd

FastSpring

It’s not easy to build a SaaS, software, or digital product from the ground up — and it’s even harder when you have to worry about all the other logistical details that go along with growing a business.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Try to leverage your API and self-service capabilities for the long tail if you can, and focus human resources on the ones that move the needle. It sounds expensive, and it is, but think about the payments to the partner as a marketing cost. More on that here. Ask yourself “Why?” as a partner. Be patient. This stuff takes time.

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

SaaStr

When you hire your first couple reps, they do need to have sold a software product. It can work out a little bit for tiny SMBs, but it doesn’t work in software, okay? Half the folks here will tell you their mis-hire in marketing just did branding and product marketing and corporate marketing.