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

SaaStr

Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ ’ Bill is approaching half a million customers, so has a good pulse on small businesses. Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. But, as a business grows, teams may find that this success hinges on overcoming one final hurdle: building a financial stack. Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell.

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The SaaS Financial Model You’ll Actually Update (Updated 2019)

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Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. A Modular Financial Model. The structure of a strong SaaS financial model should be wholly modular.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Embrace self-service: Your development teams are embracing the self-service philosophy – your teams can focus on product adoption and self-service enablement.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How Twilio Does It.

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