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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

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Investing for growth has been pretty flat year over year for SMBs, which means there is money there, but they’re holding onto it. A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. When you get bigger, say 20 to 50 to 100 monthly transactions, you probably have an accounting person in BILL daily.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

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The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Five

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Ellevest is on a mission to close the gender investing gap by leveraging a robo-advisor designed especially for women. Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems.

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5 Lessons Learned When Scaling Product-Led Growth and Sales Motions Beyond $100M with Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy

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Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. If you think about Cloudinary’s core audience in the beginning, developers, the fifth employee they hired was the first person in the customer success group.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

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According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

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Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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