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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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Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. in revenue.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

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When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Tienpay enables merchant payments, person-to-person transfers, and vouchers, among other functionalities. . Founders : William Tien. Founded : 2011.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

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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: 2004.

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

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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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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

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In case you missed it, our recent 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report highlights how, whether your business focuses on B2C, B2B, or both , SaaS and software Q4 sales bumps are significant around the globe. It’s also a great time for shoppers like you to take advantage of those deals! Deal: “ 50% off everything.

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How We Launched A New SaaS Start-up 50% Faster Using Outseta

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By Geoff Roberts For the past two years we’ve been hard at work building Outseta, an undertaking that was a direct response to our own experience launching and scaling a successful SaaS start-up. Then we did what everyone else in SaaS does—we evaluated, bought, integrated, and maintained a whole bunch of other SaaS products.

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3 Must-Have CFO Skills: Operating Finance, Strategy and Communications

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” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process. The people who are self-aware enough, as most CFOs are, would say what their weaknesses are in the interview process.”.