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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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Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. in revenue.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. Many infrastructure as a service companies do this. Contract Length Many SaaS startups launch with monthly pricing which encourages customers to try the product and engenders demand.

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Scaling The Top SMB SaaS Companies: What It Takes with GGV Capital Managing Director Jeff Richards and GGV Capital Partner Tiffany Luck (Pod 647 + Video)

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Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. 2020 wasn’t the only reason small business owners adopted software solutions, but it sure sped up the process. Efficient Go To Market There are a lot of ways to GTM as an SMB.

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What The Downturn Will Probably Look Like in SaaS

SaaStr

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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5 Interesting Learnings from SurveyMonkey. As It Crosses $300m in ARR.

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SurveyMonkey is one of the Old School SaaS companies that has followed an interesting path. days, for years it was run by a tiny team and dominated the self-service side of surveys. self-service customers, at some point, you can potentially have the entire world as customers and mature out in SMB. With 670,000+ (!)

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Top 10 Learnings from the Redpoint Free Trial Survey

Tom Tunguz

They span single digit ARR businesses to publicly traded SaaS companies. We processed the data with 1000+ lines of R code to parse the insights from the data and test for statistical significance. In the SMB, month to month is more common. Aim for 90%+ Logo Retention. Target 100-140% Net Dollar Retention.

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How to Cross 500,000 SMB Customers with Bill’s Founder CEO Rene Lacerte

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SMB customers. Your suppliers might actually be your customers 30% of Bill.com’s core revenue comes from suppliers making payment choices, completely reframing their TAM calculations. billion “We are a software company because we believe you have to have great software to have a great payment experience.

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