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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). in revenue. in revenue. Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’

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

SaaStr

So AppFolio is a big vertical SaaS+ success story I frankly don’t know as much about as I should. So AppFolio is a quiet member of the 10x ARR club – SaaS for property management – $660m run-rate, $7.2B Steady, Strong Growth — Since 2006 Appfolio was founded way back in 2006, and they never quit.

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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. And SMBs are back in SaaS. An incredible journey from a fairly simple product at founding in 2006. That’s the power of recurring revenue. eCommerce and Business Tools Are Key Drivers to Accelerating Growth. Impressive.

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

SaaStr

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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How to Cross 500,000 SMB Customers with Bill’s Founder CEO Rene Lacerte

SaaStr

Your suppliers might actually be your customers 30% of Bill.com’s core revenue comes from suppliers making payment choices, completely reframing their TAM calculations. For SMB SaaS, aim for 6 quarters of LTV:CAC, not 4 Ren adjusted the traditional benchmark because SMB customers stay longer than typically measured.

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

Chargify

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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