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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. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. He had the idea that the Cloud, not called the Cloud back then, would enable two entities to see the same transaction from their perspective. If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry.

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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

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Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. The past twelve months have been relatively turbulent for Cloud founders. What does this mean for Cloud companies? What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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Thanks to Bee, ChartMogul, Maast, SecureFrame, and StratusGreen for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

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ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Embedded finance has everything to do with the flow of money.

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Thanks to Check, Cumul.io, Finix, Rocketlane, and Signeasy for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

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Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Cumul.io ‘s powerful embedded analytics platform lets you build interactive dashboards with simple drag & drop, and integrate them in your own application in just a few lines of code.

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What is a Payment Processing System and How Does It Work?

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According to the US Federal Reserve in 2022, general-purpose card payments reached $153.3 On top of that, 69% of Americans online in 2023 said they used digital payment methods to make a purchase. As a business owner, you just cant afford to ignore these statistics. But selecting a good payment solution can be overwhelming.

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Thanks to Unit, Everstage, Aiven, Zip, and Mission Cloud for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

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Unit helps tech companies build financial features into their products: accounts, cards, payments, lending & more. Everstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that removes recurring busywork for your Ops and Finance teams and provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to your customer-facing teams.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Square, er Block, at $16B in Net Revenue

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The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Square is still a high-margin software company at its core with a large but low-margin payments business on top.

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