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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). A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. If we go back to 2006, BILL was a cloud-based company. Needless to say, he succeeded. in revenue.

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Benchmarking Amplitude's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

The company leverages novel storage techniques to scalably collect data on how users engage with mobile apps and web sites. Congratulations to the entire Amplitude team on having built an impressive business and importantly the first publicly traded analytics company since Omniture debuted in 2006.

Metrics 294
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The State of Subscription Apps with RevenueCat’s CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard

SaaStr

There’s a lot to learn from our mobile-first comrades because it’s even harder over there than it is over here. Lesson #2: Conversion to Paid Is Fairly Low While Free Trial Offerings Are Way Up 70% of mobile subscription apps now offer free trials, at least in part. In B2B, the classic metric for this is 2% now and was 2% in 2006.

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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

Some are laughably dated, but some are still as relevant today as ever: 2006: Fax integration. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration. We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. I got a little misty-eyed looking back: Here was our rough list.

Scale 246
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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Card Control Mobile application that allows cardholders to decide when and where their cards can or cannot be used based on a series of preference settings. Peer-to-peer payment Online technology that allows customers to transfer funds from their bank account or credit card to another individuals account via the Internet or a mobile phone.

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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

Some are laughably dated, but some are still as relevant today as ever: 2006: Fax integration. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration. We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. I got a little misty-eyed looking back: Here was our rough list.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

The areas of interest are IT, mobile, consumer products and services, healthcare, cleantech, and financial services, among others. SaaS Investments: NQ Mobile, and others. Founded: 2006. Its goal is to provide funding to tech businesses in fields like semiconductors, mobile, internet, security, enterprise, and more.