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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. 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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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

market cap (11x) – Growing 29% a year — efficiently – Only 30% of revenue from software, rest payments + services – 20% Free Cash Flow, 16% non-GAAP margins – Frozen… pic.twitter.com/8PLvYP1JRz — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? 5 Most of Their Revenue, Like Shopify and Bill, is Not From Software.

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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

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. It’s a transaction business.

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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. Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. eCommerce platforms.

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Marketing Automation: What is it, Examples & Tools [2021]

Neil Patel

But marketing automation tools make your job a little more painless, so you and your team can focus your time and attention on other efforts that drive revenue. lets you send targeted messages to your customers that you can craft based on how they interact with your business. Use Customer.io to Automate Timely Emails.