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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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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Trust the process.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

With a modern conversational support solution, you can combine proactive , self-serve , and human support capabilities, so your team can get ahead of known problems with targeted messages , automatically answer repetitive queries with bots , and quickly resolve complex issues with automation and a human touch.

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Behind the Round with SaaStr:  Chorus.ai Raises $45 Million

SaaStr

Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. . No doubt, Chorus provides this at scale. And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. . The funding comes at a point when Chorus is in the hypergrowth mode.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Weave at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. But I thought I’d take a deeper look at one example, Weave. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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5 Things to Know About Running a Capital Efficient Software Company

SaaSX

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. The rule of 40 states that at scale, a company’s revenue growth rate plus its profit margin should be at least 40. There are a few ways I think about it. Churn Rate.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

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Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. How Bigfoot Evaluates Initial-Scale SaaS. Bigfoot focuses on initial-scale SaaS.

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