The Best of Stripe
10+ most popular Stripe articles, as voted by our community.
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Stripe on Colors
Designing accessible color systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
Stripe on Fintech
the first five years and 20,000 startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
«In total, Stripe Atlas businesses employ 99,000 people today and they’re hiring over 120,000 new employees within the next 12 months»
Stripe on Kubernetes
Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
We recently built a distributed [cron][] job scheduling system on top of [Kubernetes][kubernetes], an exciting new platform for container orchestration. Kubernetes is very popular right now and makes…
Stripe on Landing Pages
Stripe Atlas: Writing copy for landing pages
Write copy that delights visitors, persuades prospects, and wins customers.
Stripe on Marketplaces
Andrew Chen on Marketplaces
Andrew Chen shares key considerations, crossroads, and predictions for online marketplaces.
Stripe on Networking
Networking for founders
Stripe Atlas’ guide to networking (for people, not protocols)
Stripe on Saas
Stripe Atlas: Software as a Service, as a business
Stripe Atlas’ guide to understanding low-touch and high-touch SaaS businesses
Software as a Service pricing
Stripe Atlas’ guide to pricing and packaging for low-touch SaaS businesses
Stripe on Starting A Business
Stripe: Atlas Guide to Starting a Real Business
Atlas’ guide to running your online business in its first year. Covers incorporation, bookkeeping, taxes, risk management, and more.
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Stripe Atlas: Getting Your First 10 Customers
Scrappily start your sales strategy (say that five times fast).
Indexing the creator economy
We indexed the creator economy by measuring the growth of creator platforms on Stripe. Creators are coming online at a record clip—from all around the world. More and more are earning a living wage…
Stripe Payment Links: Create a link. Sell anywhere in under 5 minutes.
Use Payment Links to sell online without a website and without any code. Create a full payment page in just a few clicks and share the link with your customers.
CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees
Earlier today, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees.
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