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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 160
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How to Start a Franchise Business

Neil Patel

For example, many McDonald’s restaurants are franchises, meaning an owner (or group of owners, in some cases) pays McDonald’s to use their brand name, menus, logos, and other business assets. A few businesses that offer franchising options include: 7-Eleven Taco Bell Great Clips Ace Hardware. It varies by business.

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

Chargify

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. If you seem to be gaining traction, now would be a good time to solve the problem of recurring billing, which most SaaS business models rely on.

Scale 74
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How Stripe Built a Sales Organization to Successfully Sell to Developers

OpenView Labs

In our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we work with both small startups and public companies, helping them remove the complexity of processing the payments that are the heartbeat of every business. Stripe is a company built by developers, for developers. This isn’t the typical SaaS sales approach.

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Move Thoughtfully and Create Things: Stripe’s 4 Steps to International Expansion

OpenView Labs

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. The businesses we serve are either global, or on a path to it, so Stripe has to be global too. Technology companies who’ve attempted cookie cutter internationalization have generally failed.

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What Are the Different Stages of a Startup: An Introduction?

SmartKarrot

Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money. Without the payments coming in from customers, it is difficult for startups to manage growing finances during this stage.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 154