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

SaaStr

It was founded by three developers who owned a consulting firm previously, helping startups come to market. As developers, they immediately started to think about a PLG, pay-as-you-go motion to get to market and engage with developers quickly. Lesson #2: Create Credible Technical Content Cloudinary didn’t have a marketing organization.

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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation.

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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. After digging into the platform and appreciating its capabilities, she found OpenAI.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Rocket Mortgage has 30 years of data around mortgages in different markets. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization. That data is not public.

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

User Pilot

Product-led innovation focuses on creating the best product for your customers. 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.

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Sequencing Business Models: So You Want To Be A Platform?

Casey Accidental

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms.