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

SaaStr

Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. With a trillion in payment volume coming through BILL in the last five years, managing the payment and compliance engine has required an ongoing effort of a sizable team. You have to keep going when you’re doing something that wasn’t done before.

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Balancing Hyper Growth with Risk: Secrets to Scaling with Brex’s COO and Alloy’s CRO

SaaStr

Both Brex and Alloy have been mutual customers of one another since 2017 and in this session, they shared their lessons learned on balancing production innovation with regulation while mitigating risks. If you just focus on compliance all the time and take no risk, you have no business to protect. Risk Management Evolves As You Grow.

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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

This was around 2017, and CS became simpler and focused on post-sales, retention, and reduced churn. This revenue chart is 2017-2021 before Braze IPO’d. During the IPO process, they had to look at things related to audit and compliance. Braze went public in November 2021.

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Predictions for 2019

Tom Tunguz

After all the hype and ICO-mania in 2017, the flurry of startups attempting to solve every startup with a distributed ledger and the collapse of currencies in 2018, one startup emerges in 2019 with the next killer use case; Bitcoin being the first. Volumes relative to 2017 didn’t change materially, though. To an extent.

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Everyone in SaaS Needs to Do Customer Support. At Least Until You Have 50-100 Employees. But Ideally, Forever.

SaaStr

If you’re building say a HIPAA compliance app? Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) October 14, 2017. If you’re building an accounting application for healthcare — how many of your engineers will use it naturally on a daily basis? It’s not natural. So what do you do?

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Top 10 Tech Startup Founders in the UK for 2025

Scytale

Before founding Synthesia in 2017, he co-led Immersive Futures, shaping the UKs VR/AR industry and working with the UK government to establish Londons first high-quality volumetric capture studio, Dimension. With SOC 2 compliance, the startup not only prioritizes innovation but also ensures top-tier data protection. Backed by 1.93

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2024 NIST Password Guidelines: Enhancing Security Practices

Scytale

When NIST first introduced its password recommendations back in 2017 (under NIST Special Publication 800-63B), the focus was all about security through complexity. The ISO 27001 Bible Everything you need to know about ISO 27001 compliance. Less time spent dealing with password issues means more time spent on productive work.