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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). This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. I already have a solution.” If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today. This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today.

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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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5 Interesting Learnings From Wix at $1 Billion+ in ARR

SaaStr

They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing and more. An incredible journey from a fairly simple product at founding in 2006. But much lower in Payments. But they’ll need to be careful to keep margins at the 60%+ level expected of software companies as Business Solutions revenue grows.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today. This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today.

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

SaaStr

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. Founded in 2006, Bill.com has grown to: $1.4 If you don’t have that, there’s no point in offering payments,” Ren explains.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment. SaaS Investments: Consilium Software, HRBoss, and others. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Founded: 2006.