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5 Interesting Learnings from AppFolio at $660,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

There are several big leaders in property management software, and AppFolio is one of them. At $660m in “ARR” (a lot of that isn’t software, as we’ll see below), it’s trading at a $7.2 AppFolio is what the markets want in a software+ company, at least in 2023. Let’s dig in.

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

SaaStr

They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. An incredible journey from a fairly simple product at founding in 2006. But much lower in Payments. But they’ll need to be careful to keep margins at the 60%+ level expected of software companies as Business Solutions revenue grows.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers?

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

Considering blogging is such a crucial part of the web, some website builders have been designed with a content management system in mind. Setting up a blog with a strong content management system helps to get ideas out in a sustained way. This is particularly true if you are already selling products at scale in the real world.

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Marketing Automation: What is it, Examples & Tools [2021]

Neil Patel

Marketing automation is the act of using software and technology to create and implement applications to automate repetitive tasks, such as (yes) email marketing, ad campaigns, tracking, and much more. This marketing software lets you drive revenue with lead management, mobile marketing, and more. What is Marketing Automation?

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Top 10 SaaS Subscription Billing Software for 2021

SmartKarrot

When you are picking your SaaS subscription billing software, you must ensure that you have considered the specific requirements of your customers before making your decision. On that note, here we have simplified this job for you and have enlisted 10 such top SaaS subscription billing software for 2021. Sage Intacct. SaaSOptics.

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A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Great start-ups have a system to have hard conversations. And so, having some type of system where the founders are going to meet and work through whatever the b t issue is of the day is extremely important. This will always happen in every start-up.