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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. There’s a continuum playing itself out.

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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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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. And this leads to our third point. Below, you’ll find highlights from our conversation.

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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. An In-Person Discussion About Scaling Your Business Join us in Amsterdam on April 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Final remarks.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans?

SaaStr

The last thing a VP in a Fortune 5000 company wants to deal with is credit card payments or monthly invoicing. But — you may need a good VP of Sales to help you make this stick, so don’t be too dogmatic here until you have a real VP. Well, you can, but if you do, you add friction to the sale, which generally is ROI negative.

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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. If you don’t have two, who do you hire?