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Your SaaS New Year’s Resolutions for 2025

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So with that here are Your Top 10 New Years SaaS Resolutions for 2025: #1. This is your #1 lever to do better in 2025. #2. This is so much more important in 2025. Worst case, they still use it and are happy, and churn less. You need the team sharp to retain your customers in 2025. Not yet, at least. More here. #8.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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And a full half of 2025 will be dedicated in the latest in AI for B2B, including 100+ of the best new players in B2B AI presenting on our new AI Demo Stage! Sessions often cover specific benchmarks for customer acquisition costs, churn rates, expansion revenue, sales efficiency, and other SaaS-specific metrics. Pull together the team.

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20 YC Startups Demoing at SaaStr 2025 Pushing the AI Frontier! From Abundant AI to Mosaic to Veriflow and More!!

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So we’ll have ~20 of the latest AI start-ups from YCombinator at a special YC Demo Pod area at 2025 SaaStr Annual! Come meet them (and also watch 100+ present live at our first AI Demo Stage ) at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Here’s more on a dozen of them to meet IRL!:

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The New Rules of AI Startup Growth: 5 Key Lessons from Cohere, Together AI & Salesforce Ventures

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Companies are seeing massive growth numbers, but with a catch – high churn rates and unpredictable usage patterns. What This Means for 2025 The AI startup playbook is being rewritten in real-time. The Real Signs of “Experimental” vs “Real” ARR Want to spot the difference?

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“Talk to You in 2025”: When There Isn’t Budget

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A startup I invested in just emailed me that one of the top customers is churning due to a new CFO — even though their usage and NPS are off the charts. The post “Talk to You in 2025”: When There Isn’t Budget appeared first on SaaStr. This can cut both ways, of course. Getting past all these objections.

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Gong Crosses $300,000,000 in ARR. Is Sales Engagement Back?

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Well discuss all this and much more related to AI and SaaS at 2025 SaaStr Annual! Gong in the early days of this wave was often hurt by consolidation, but today it seems to be benefitting as it itself has become a much broader platform and multi-product. It begs the question: is the sales and revenue acceleration space back?

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The $10M to $1B Vertical SaaS Playbook: Key Lessons from Procore’s Chief Product Officer Wyatt Jenkins

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Lower Churn : When software is deeply embedded in industry workflows, switching costs become naturally high. The Revenue Impact This deep customer focus has significant financial implications: Higher ACVs : Deep industry-specific functionality commands premium pricing compared to horizontal solutions.