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PE Loves SaaS Again: Thoma Bravo Buys Olo for $2 Billion

SaaStr

The SaaS PE market is heating up again, and Thoma Bravo just made a big statement buying SaaS restaurant pioneer Olo for $2 Billion. per share — a whopping 65% premium over Olo’s closing price on April 30th (the last trading day before acquisition rumors started swirling). That’s $10.25 That’s $10.25

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. in revenue.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment.

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How To Grow Your Startup By Asking Better Questions

Hitenism

Set up a decision tree system where you can process inputs into action almost automatically. Without doing research upfront to understand the market, we ended up wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on everything from a podcast advertising network to a web hosting service. But we wanted to make this process even faster and easier.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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Subscription Management and What You Should Know

Baremetrics

Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Learn all you need to know about the essentials of subscription services management in this article. However, the platform process is not always automated. This process is often automated.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company. Want to see more content like this?