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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. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

SaaS enables customers to trade the large capital expenditures associated with traditional enterprise software for smaller operating expenses: a lower cost of entry, and minimal IT infrastructure to manage. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue. However, that benefit comes with risks.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. That’s true: Elements such as a global business focus and experienced professional moderators (that’s me!) That includes: A global focus. Professional moderation.

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Outseta Company Update - September 2018

Outseta

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users. Indie.VC - Indie.VC

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.