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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

And more importantly, revenue and user growth that is accelerating at scale. – RevenueCat now powers 1/3d of all new mobile subscriptions world-wide – New Apps using RevenueCat doubled in last 6 months – Powering monetization for ChatGPT, Notion, VSCO, Runna, and pic.twitter.com/McFmCBZ0eE — Jason SaaStr.Ai

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

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in revenue. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. Businesses take time to adopt, unlike consumers who joined TikTok by the tens of millions. If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry. Be prepared for that if you move peoples’ money as a business.

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Why IoT Monetization Fails—And How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions

Blulogix

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. Its a systemic monetization failure that eats into margins, frustrates customers, and scales into a monster as your device count grows. Your billing process lives in Excel. Your billing process lives in Excel.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. And it has been since 2017 or so! It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. But that took time.

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6 Payment Acceptance Obstacles SaaS Companies Face and How to Avoid Them

SaaStr

By: Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Making payments accessible overseas. A 2017 U.S. Securing payments.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart.

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Redpoint Office Hours with Medha Agarwal & Shopify’s Kaz Nejatian

Tom Tunguz

Prior to Shopify, Kaz was the Product Lead for Payments and Billing at Facebook and was the former CEO of Kash, a payment technology company that he founded and which was acquired in 2017. What are best practices for when and how to add financial services into your platform? payments, financing, banking, and insurance)?