SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x At SaaStr Annual , IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes. How to scale AI across your business.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2024

Canva Head of Sales and Success for EMEA, Jorge Bestard, and Head of Strategic Sales for EMEA, Daniela Nyarko, share Canva’s journey from PLG to Enterprise, strategies to navigate the PLG trap, and why it’s so attractive. You get traction in the market and raise a round to build a marketing and sales team.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

A product manager today faces a key architectural question with AI : to use a small language model or a large language model? the company has no plan/interest to staff a team to manage AI infrastructure or develop deep machine learning experience / expertise in-house. The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We remain optimistic about the prospects of cross-border SaaS. Companies in our region are good at achieving PMF and scaling to $1 million-$5 million ARR efficiently. The promise of SaaS was healthy profitability at scale and yet we see companies with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue burning cash. That’s too tactical.

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Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Takeaway #2: Inflation and surcharging compliance Ella highlighted the rising importance of surcharging as a response to inflation and escalating operational costs. Ensuring compliance in surcharging practices is critical, as violations can lead to substantial fines.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. Dawn Herndon, Vice President of EMEA Build & ISV Partnerships at IBM, shares the areas where AI can accelerate your business and the different factors you need to consider as you build products and solutions to sell. Open-source.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

In an era when executives are bombarded with tech buzzwords, it’s vital to focus on real-world AI uses that deliver business impact. This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation. Executives also leverage generative AI for idea generation and reporting.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

So we’re scaling up the final speakers for 2024 SaaStr Annual, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay! We’re also starting to roll out sign up for 100s and 100s Braindates and Mentorship Sessions now, look for an email in your inbox soon if you are signed up for Annual! We’ll post the top ones soon! May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Thousands of revenue leaders at leading companies, including Clearbit, WordPress, Zenefits and Miro use Rattle to make their teams more effective and forecasts more predictable. Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50+ countries. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. So the time to implementation and compliance is much quicker now than it used to be.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Navin Persaud is the VP of Revenue Operations at 1Password, where he leads a 30+ person team supporting a GTM org of 450+. Hes known for building scalable systems, ruthless prioritization, and a clear-eyed view of how AI is reshaping operations.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

It can be easy to consistently double revenue if you’re an early-stage company, but as you scale up, sustaining that becomes more difficult. Your CAC is how much you spend on acquiring and onboarding a customer, and can include marketing, communications, sales, and other expenses. Customer acquisition cost. More on that later.

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Scytale

APRIL 30, 2025

When you think about AI, whats the first thing that comes to mind? With 72% of businesses globally already integrating AI in some form, its no wonder so many are scrambling to get a handle on the risks that come with it. In the spotlight today are two key players in AI risk management – NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Capacity is an AI-powered support automation platform that connects your entire tech stack to answer questions, automate repetitive support tasks, and assemble solutions to any business challenge. ChurnZero lets your CS team manage and expand accounts at scale with proactive, personalized engagement that helps every customer succeed.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Challenges and Pitfalls of a Partner Ecosystem Drata attributes much of its success to its partner ecosystem, which is an interesting case study for most, so how do they break up marketing, sales, and resource allocation vs. a more direct-sales modeled business? The sales reps were friends, and accounts were shared.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). When it comes to AI there is now another BIG culprit in misused ARR which I’m calling ERR (we use this term internally). A huge portion of AI revenue today is truly experimental! If retention deteriorates, the terminal value may very well be 0.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the co-founder and CEO of leading fintech company, OakNorth , – valued at over 1 billion – he has revolutionized lending for scale-up businesses through advanced data analytics, providing fast, flexible financing solutions for SMEs.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What’s the difference between sales enablement and Sales Engagement? As sales leaders figure out how to do more with less, 9 out of 10 sales orgs consider a Sales Engagement Platform (SEP) critical to their team’s success. What is a Sales Engagement Platform (SEP)? Is Sales Engagement Always the Right Fit?

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

At Base10, I lead investing for our growth stage fund that invests $20-60M in market leaders primarily in B through D rounds, though we can invest up to pre-IPO. I spend a lot of time researching software trends in vertical software, compliance, and AI. And how big is your current fund? We have a total of $1.8B

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2024

This feels like the year that many companies have now realized that sales-led and product-led aren’t exclusive; they’re more of a spectrum. Factors to Consider for Product-Led Sales There are important factors that make a purely product-led growth motion easier. Happy New Year! 2024, we’re officially here. Let’s get into it.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For those that might not be familiar, FastSpring is a merchant of record platform that combines all the essential tools you need to scale a digital goods business. In simple terms, we handle everything from payments to fraud management, to custom support and tax compliance, so that sellers can focus on growing their business.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

How Yext evolved from managing listings to powering AI-ready data pipelines. Actionable steps SaaS companies can take to optimize for AI agents and search diversification. 14:30 The new battleground: how AI engines like ChatGPT shape discoverability. 22:00 Why structured data is the foundation of AI-first marketing.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

The SaaS landscape is rapidly embracing generative AI. Analysts estimate that up to 6070% of routine tasks could be automated by AI, potentially adding trillions of dollars in value. are already infusing AI into products used by billions. are already infusing AI into products used by billions. What Is LLM Orchestration?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? So one trend is just containers, Kubernetes and how that auto scales in a very seamless way wherever you are.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a cutting-edge approach in AI that combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time information retrieval to produce more accurate and context-aware outputs. Industry leaders have quickly embraced RAG as a way to build more intelligent AI applications. and real SaaS examples using RAG.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Importantly, ATS platforms have evolved with AI-driven features , diversity and bias reduction tools , and deep analytics to meet todays hiring challenges. Manatal Best AI-Powered ATS for HR Teams Pricing: Key Features: Ideal Use Case: 5. Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10.

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Scytale

MAY 9, 2025

Working with third-party vendors isnt just common – its practically inevitable, especially as your business scales. Even if your own security posture is rock solid, your compliance and GRC efforts can still fall apart if your vendors dont hold up their end of the bargain. Managing internal security is hard enough. Lets dive in!

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Improved ROI: Planned and monitored business growth leads to helpful insights. This is achieved by informed strategies to cut down on costs, and boost sales. At SubscriptionFlow, we take care of all your billing scenarios, with AI-driven mechanisms. It also allows businesses to discover untapped markets.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 5, 2020

You’re making a lot of calls, but leads aren’t converting and agents are losing track of conversations. They’re helping companies revolutionize outreach and connecting agents with a higher number of high-quality leads every hour. Progressive dialers, for instance, prevent agents from cherry-picking leads. Compliance.

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2025

But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. It helps quantify customer behaviors on a larger scale to uncover user trends and correlations. E.g., gauge customer satisfaction by asking users to rate their satisfaction with your product on a scale of 1 to 10.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 17, 2024

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Intelligence Revolution, will be defined by the transition from human-driven processes to AI-driven intelligence, transforming industries, economies, and daily life through the power of advanced computing. ” The challenge is that power was a bottleneck prior to the AI craze.

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Unbounce

MAY 17, 2022

Pairing that strong foundation with Unbounce’s Smart Traffic to scale performance and reach client goals faster. This leads to ill-informed hypotheses about what to test. And here’s the kicker: Even if a conversion does happen, it’s extremely unlikely that that conversion will actually lead to a sale.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 8, 2019

The chart below shows the sales technology landscape - there are over 800 vendors listed and 38 different categories. Source: Sales Hacker It’s fair to say that the sales enablement category has mirrored the impressive growth of the sales technology landscape as a whole (up and to the right). There’s a big unmet need.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2019

This hardship, combined with the CRM transition to the cloud and the rise of digital selling, has created a mini gold rush for sales software fueled by abundant VC money. Last September, it introduced High Velocity Sales for inside sales. These models are becoming very important for planning and prioritizing sales activities.

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