SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

So what were the best attended and most upvoted SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays ? And sign up for FREE Workshop Wednesdays here. The ones you actually just have to catch up? The 2023 list below! The Seven Things all Founders Should Know About Sales. Tunguz, MongoDB, Nick Mehta, Bessemer and More!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! AI is transforming SaaS, and were dedicating two massive stages to the SaaStr.AI The SaaStr.AI Summit Is Back and Bigger.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So we had an action-packed 52 weeks of Workshop Wednesdays this 2023! It’s been a big hit for us with over 4,000 of you attending our Live, FREE Workshop Wednesdays every … Wednesday! For B2B Generative AI Apps, is Less More? with Andreessen Horowitz This one on AI was super popular! #5. Harness.io

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2025

AI is The Accelerant. #3. 10 AI Trends in SaaS Right Now with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin on LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday #2. Top Posts: #1. The #1 Thing That Makes Enterprise Customers See Value: A Great Dashboard #2. Thoma Bravo: Software Spend Will Grow 19% a Year Through 2028. Yes, SaaS is Back. OpenAI to Hit $12.7

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10+ Signs of a Mediocre Hire The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI and More 15 Signs You Have a SaaS Metrics Problem (and How to Fix it) 4 Recent, Very Bad, Truly Terrible Customer Success Experiences. Just This Week.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2023

We’re adding the final batches of Workshops and Braindates for 2023 SaaStr Annual!! The post 55+ New Workshops and Braindates for 2023 SaaStr Annual appeared first on SaaStr. Ok we are close!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!! And the VCs that want to fund them!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2023

10+ Actionable Things You Can Do To Scale Faster In The Early Days The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long (Updated) Dear SaaStr: My Top Sales Rep Made $600,000 a Year — And Just Quit! What Happened? Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s Not Just You 15 Ways to Help Your Sales Team in 2024 Carta: Startup Shutdowns Are Up 237% 5 Ways To Leverage AI in Tech with Freshworks Top Podcasts This Week: 1. SaaStr 703: Who Will Win the Go-to-Market AI Race — Startups or Incumbents? LIVE Workshop Wednesday: State of SaaS with Jamin Ball, Partner at Altimeter Capital 2.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2024

LIVE Workshop Wednesday: Pricing and Packaging for AI Products with Sandhya Hegde, General Partner at Unusual Ventures 4. How to Double Your Magic Number and Increase Your Go-to-Market Efficiency with Sapphire Ventures 3. Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan 5.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

ARR On Average Per SaaSomomics Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024 5 Ways To Leverage AI in Tech with Freshworks Top Podcasts This Week: 1. SaaStr 701: The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky     3. Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

An AI Deep Dive with Lightspeed and Typeface: Embracing the Potential, Addressing the Challenges 5. LIVE Workshop Wednesday: From the Other Side: Advice from a Founder-Turned-VC with Ridge Ventures The post Top SaaStr Content for the Week: 2 New Podcasts, What’s New at Drata, LIVE Workshop Wednesday and lots more!

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2023

10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin: LIVE at Workshop Wednesday 3. Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures: The Impact of Generative AI on Software – LIVE at Workshop Wednesday 4. The Secrets to Building a Global Platform and Ecosystem with Xero’s Global CSO Damien Tampling 2.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

SaaStr 650: The Impact of Generative AI on Software With Theory Ventures Founder & General Partner Tomasz Tunguz  2. 5 Metrics Every SaaS Company Should Care About with Salesforce Ventures (Workshop Wednesday) 3. LIVE Workshop Wednesday with Theory Ventures: The Impact of Generative AI on Software 4.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2024

Everyone’s trying to make sense of AI, what’s happening in the ecosystem, and how to incorporate AI into your demand generation and marketing. In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Where do SDRs end up in this AI world? There are three focus areas to look into when choosing an AI tool.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How is AI going to impact the software and SaaS landscape of the next couple of years and also the next 5-10 years? Kristina Shen, General Partner at a16z, shares some insights into the present and future of generative AI at this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2023

5 Metrics Every SaaS Company Should Care About with Salesforce Ventures (Workshop Wednesday) 2. LIVE Workshop Wednesday with Theory Ventures: The Impact of Generative AI on Software 4. CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah 3. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2023

SaaStr 650: The Impact of Generative AI on Software With Theory Ventures Founder & General Partner Tomasz Tunguz  5. 5 Metrics Every SaaS Company Should Care About with Salesforce Ventures (Workshop Wednesday) 4. 10 Things That Always Work in SaaS Marketing with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin: LIVE at Workshop Wednesday 5.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

And we’ll have tons of small hands-on workshops and braindates here too. a subset! It will be an epic line-up for us all to learn how to build the best of the best products in SaaS and Cloud! It will be an epic line-up for us all to learn how to build the best of the best products in SaaS and Cloud! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Over 80% of investor money is in AI. Why is that?

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. I presented those questions & my views on their answers at Saastr’s Workshop Wednesday. The narrative is : AI is a massive platform change that Goldman Sachs projects will increase GDP 300x more than the PC.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Being responsible for the design of AI services used by millions of people is a huge responsibility, and Arin is deeply aware of that. According to him, good design doesn’t need to sacrifice transparency, and imperceptible AI isn’t ethical AI. Arin has even successfully conducted customer workshops with Lego bricks.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. Sign up for free.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2023

SaaStr 707: The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini   2. The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini 2. LIVE Workshop Wednesday: Lessons (Un)Learned: Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Docebo 5.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Billion in ARR 80% of IPOs Since 2020 Are “Broken” The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO Scott Belsky Before You Start as a VP — Please, Please, Please. SaaStr 701: The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky     3. Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race?

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? So we asked the expert, Sandhya Hegde, General Partner at Unusual Ventures to share her best practices and trends for pricing and packaging AI products. Usage is volatile.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

“ How to Build a Category Defining Gen AI Company and Scale from 0 to 100 with Cohere’s former VP of Marketing “ This should be a fun session on the top demand gen and marketing lessons from Cohere. #3: Ironclad is already at nine-figures in ARR and early to AI. Klaviyo is just one of 3 SaaS IPOs since 2021! #2.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2023

SaaStr 712: Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? LIVE Workshop Wednesday: Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? LIVE Workshop Wednesday: Why the Future of Customer Success, Sales & Marketing Has Changed with AMA Part 2 w/ SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin 4.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

SaaStr 697: What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024   2. SaaStr 696: The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal     3. The 2 Hour Rule The 6 Must-Have Go-To-Market Models Divvy Used to Its $2.5B

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2024

Jason Lemkin shares the answer during Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. But those kinds of deals are back and only in the segment of AI. It seems like the only way to do this is in AI. Does AI partially fuel this? These crazy 100x ARR deals in AI are expecting OpenAI-like growth. Let’s find out.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2024

LIVE Workshop Wednesday: 10 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, former Product at Google 2. 6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners 3. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund       Top Videos This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

So at SaaStr Annual, Dave Kellogg did a great deep dive on “5 Things Every B2B CEO Needs to Know about Marketing” In the Age of AI it’s even more true today, so I wanted to update our SaaStr take-aways from the deep dive.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

7 Things All Founders Should Know About Sales with Dave Kellogg: SaaStr Workshop Wednesday LIVE 2. Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta: My Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years (LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday) 3. Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures: The Impact of Generative AI on Software 5.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2023

link] 2023 Sep 6-8 tracking to: 53% women speakers 61% less represented speakers 80% new voices 26% CEOs 23% CROs and CMOs 27% Top VCs 104 Workshops already scheduled, spooling up! Mark Roberge, GP at Stage2 Capital and ex-CRO at HubSpot: Who Will Win the Go-to-Market AI Race — Startups or Incumbents?” And so, so much more!

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2022

With three live events, two digital events, and our two special series, Workshop Wednesdays and CRO Confidential, we have 200+ videos just from 2022 for you! The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. #5. Today, we’re giving you #12-#1 of our top videos of 2022!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2024

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , Koby Conrad, Head of Growth at Oneleet and former Head of Growth at Rupa Health, shares the Top 6 growth channels that actually work. They used this metadata, enhanced it with AI, and had medical professionals edit it. Cool things happen with programmatic SEO and AI. How do you do this?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

” — Troy Legwiniski, AI & Innovation Executive “I talked with a Foresters Financial co exec a number of years who relayed a story of talking with a candidate that asked about how the tree cutting business was going.” I was asked to run a 90-minute workshop with senior people and an external consultant.

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