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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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in revenue. So at BILL’s scale, you have to put programs into place across the company to connect employees to customers, to help you focus on all the different stakeholders vs just the contract signer. That was probably 2012. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities.

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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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As Cloudinary grew its revenues and Enterprise customer base, they were met with very specific requirements. If you look at Cloudinary’s Enterprise business today, 40% of the account’s first payment with Cloudinary was with a self-service plan. Today, it’s the majority of their business.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

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ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Founded : 2012. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves. RD Station.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founded : 2012.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Preserving optionality.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

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These companies can scale really efficiently. Retention is much better than most businesses and then the upsell opportunities are quite good, so it’s not surprising that while maybe not so popular a few years ago, you’ve seen quite a few successful exits in this space. We have over 1100 customers across the globe.

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How to Calculate LTV (And Why It’s Important)

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When you’re trying to decide how to scale your business and how to calculate profits, there are tons of metrics out there you can use. In fact, it’s easy for businesses to get overwhelmed by metrics and not know which ones to prioritize. Hubspot Focused On LTV to Scale Its SaaS Company.

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