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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. They’re asking for moving money faster, creating a specific workflow, and insights and forecasting so they can be strategic about what they’re spending. You have to keep going when you’re doing something that wasn’t done before. That was probably 2012.

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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

This includes real-time bank connectivity, treasury forecasting, payment automation and automated accounting and reconciliation with e.g. ERPs. After some time in b2b marketing at Google and a few years at Bain & Company’s PE taskforce, Peter joined Creandum and the venture side in 2017.

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The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov

SaaStr

Sometimes, it’s two hours a week; the rest is spent filling out forms, one-on-one meetings, forecasting calls, etc. Gong was designed for prediction, engagement, and enablement in early 2017, and it took a few years to get there. Reps spend about 75% of their time on non-selling tasks. The second is a blending of roles.

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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. Tannenbaum and Spiekerman recommend forecasting upcoming risks and potential issues to mitigate them before they turn into a crisis scenario.

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6 Payment Acceptance Obstacles SaaS Companies Face and How to Avoid Them

SaaStr

A 2017 U.S. When a startup is in its infancy, a founder may not be able to forecast exactly where the business will be in a year’s time. Making payments accessible overseas. consumer study found that credit and debit cards were increasing in popularity for all online purchases, occupying 76% of U.S. purchases made.

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017. Every public company has a number of equity research analysts covering them who build their own forecasted models, which combine guidance from the company and their own research / sentiment analysis.

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The Most Successful SaaS Sectors

Tom Tunguz

Gartner has forecasted that by 2017 CMOs will spend more money than CIOs , which should eventually translate to substantial increases in the aggregate market caps of marketing SaaS companies. Companies are always looking to hire, and tools that provide them competitive advantage in recruitment can be very well justified.