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

SaaStr

In 2006, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte set out to define a category around financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Needless to say, he succeeded.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Wix at $1 Billion+ in ARR

SaaStr

Remember when it seemed like websites were just a commodity? They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. And SMBs are back in SaaS. An incredible journey from a fairly simple product at founding in 2006. But much lower in Payments. Well, it turns out, people care.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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8 Strategies for Converting Free Trials Users into Paying Customers

FastSpring

This is especially true for SaaS businesses, where it’s common for customers to either come in through or go through a free trial after an initial engagement method (think ads, news articles, or referrals). After the visitor “converts” from website visitor to trial user, they stop marketing or selling. Opt-in Free Trial.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

The latter, of course, was pioneered by Amazon, which launched the billing model based on user events in 2006. When AWS first entered the cloud services business over a decade ago, the SaaS market was known for subscription-based business. Data Events: The amount of data stored, used, or processed via your platform.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services.

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Stripe vs Adyen: Features, Pricing, Reviews, and More

Baremetrics

Stripe is one of the biggest names in the payment processor business. Adyen, a Dutch payment company dating back to 2006, also has its fair share of the market. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Try Baremetrics free.