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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). in revenue. This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. I already have a solution.” There was no software yet.

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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. That’s the power of recurring revenue. eCommerce and Business Tools Are Key Drivers to Accelerating Growth. 43% of Revenue Outside the U.S / North America.

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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 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? René: I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, half a dozen businesses, each for parents and grandparents, and all of them serving small businesses since the ‘60s.

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

However, as they are multi-purpose in nature, you cannot expect these features to not be as in-depth and robust as more specialist platforms. Content management platforms. Considering blogging is such a crucial part of the web, some website builders have been designed with a content management system in mind. Ease of use.

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Best Payroll for Small Businesses

Stax

Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise-level business, efficient payroll software is essential. Yet it isn’t always cost-effective to hire an in-house team to manage payroll, especially for businesses with a small headcount. Factors to consider when choosing a payroll software include headcount, budget, and tax compliance.