SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. When you’re starting a new company, you ask “who should I use for banking, who should I use for card processing, payroll, etc.?” Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 126

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In recent years, an e-commerce platform, by the name of Shopify , has grown in popularity. It was launched by Canadian entrepreneurs in 2006 and it provides online store-fronts to businesses and manages their transactions and inventory seamlessly.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 59

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

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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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This knowledge makes it easy to predict revenue growth for the future and track how customers’ perception of value changes over time. When you see how the subscription-based economy helps both companies and customers, it’s easy to understand why this business model is continuing to gain traction across the board.

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