SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2023

And 1 Big Party with Cheat Codes and Anabel Englund But much more than that, we dig into the data even more to uncover the latest event trends prevalent at SaaStr: First, on the attendee side, 34% of attendees attended as a team. So who’s coming with?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

NRR Trending Slightly Back Up There’s a general consensus that the B2B segments that saw a downturn the past 2 years saw that downturn end in Q3’24. And then charge users that go beyond 100s or 1000s of workflows per month. Will this stick? Is it too complicated, or is it what the market now expects? Let’s see! #7.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2025

AI is already reshaping B2B SaaS, and its only going to accelerate. Heres what I think is happening and whats next: #1. AI is Table Stakes Now. Now It’s Time to Make It S-Tier. AI isnt a differentiator anymore per se its the baseline.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2024/2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin And come see 200+ top SaaS, Cloud and AI sessions like these at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #9.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2025

Key Tactics: YouTube Strategy : Rupa focused on trending topics with low competition, like Nitric Oxide and Hpylori. Find trending topics, hire experts, and create the best content available for that topic. For Rupa, this meant building trust with early partners and users. Pro Tip: On YouTube, 80% of success is content-based.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 31, 2024

The ability to spot trends from a vast web of information : Seeing new information pop up every day and sharing it is one thing; connecting the dots is another. Find newsletters that interview people in your niche, share relevant news, and help you stay on top of trends. It’s the difference between a retweet and a quote tweet.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 18, 2024

  Google Trends See the relative search popularity of topics Limitations:  None Google Trends shows the popular search terms over time, which is useful for uncovering seasonal variations in search popularity. Works for desktop and mobile. Check for truncation issues and fix them instantly. Alternatives:  SEOlyzer 22. 

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Business customers now expect: Immediate results and value Seamless automation Personalized experiences Clear ROI metrics Implementation Challenges and Solutions Managing AI Risk Companies are developing various approaches to ensure responsible AI use: Building guardrails to prevent AI hallucination Implementing multiple models to cross-check results (..)

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2025

The trend isn’t behind us. But it might also be the product is great, but it doesn’t do enough. So you’re being cut for a vendor they have that does what you do already, even if not as well. And Zylo’s recent data confirms this. Even with the tremendous growth in AI, the average number of apps per customer is flat.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

Improving Rev Ops for Data-Driven Decision Making One of Lindsey’s first priorities was diving deep into the company’s existing data to identify trends and leverage these findings for growth. Some key findings included: Bookings to revenue conversion rates were significantly below target.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 11 Things That Set The Best Sales Teams Apart From The Rest 7 Things to Do When You’re Struggling Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together with Zapier 2024 Is The Year to Think About Buying Someone.

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2025

10 AI Trends in SaaS Right Now with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin on LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday #2. But Wont Be Profitable Until $125 Billion in Revenue, Per Bloomberg #5. In-Person Sales Generate 3x Higher Conversions Per The CROs of Toast, Splunk, Brex and Slice Top Pods: #1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2025

Their conversation offers a rare, insider view of the strategies, challenges, and opportunities driving the next wave of technological innovation.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Looking Ahead: The Future of Vertical SaaS As we look to 2025, 2026 and beyond, several trends are emerging: Industry Consolidation : Successful vertical SaaS players are becoming platforms, acquiring or partnering with complementary solutions.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

The post The State of SaaS – Global Data Trends from 1000+ Companies with Capchase Co-Founder/CEO Miguel Fernandez and 01 Advisors VP Kristen Clifford (Video) appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Thing Is, Maybe 10%-15% of Venture-Backed Startups Are Still Running the 2021 Playbook. SaaStr 722: 2024 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin     Top Videos This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2025

Pricing Strategy : Consider whether AI features should be packaged as part of existing products or as separate offerings, based on how value scales with usage.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Top Blog Posts This Week: Even With Just “Pretty Good Growth”, You Can Build a Unicorn After $10m ARR. A Tale of Two Trends. A Tale of Two Trends. Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home. The Last 4 “SaaS Crashes” Barely Made a Dent in the Cloud Boomtimes.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As technology continues to evolve, compliance industry trends and requirements adapt accordingly. Compliance trends in 2025 continue to be influenced by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing. What role does AI play in compliance trends?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Four portfolio companies join Sameer to talk about three trends of the Cloud AI Era. Trend #1: Foundation Models Many models exist: open source, closed source, frontier models. Trend #3: Change Management Matters In the last paradigm shift, the end user experienced little change when moving from on-premise software to SaaS.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 6, 2024

This might entail appearing on podcasts or TV interviews, serving as an expert source for an article, speaking at events, or even creating content of your own via social media, a newsletter, or a blog.  Publish LinkedIn posts or blogs around the areas of expertise you’re looking to highlight.   Love writing?

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 26, 2024

Chop up long-form content into threads Written a great blog post or newsletter ? Consider discussing industry trends, offering career advice, or sharing lessons learned from your own journey. Here's our guide to finding trending sounds on TikTok and trending audio on Instagram that you can leverage here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Despite the PLG (Product-Led Growth) trend, self-serve models for AI-powered enterprise products are proving challenging. Getting into the AI integrations within one specific vertical and understanding those users more completely and exactly how they interact with the product is more effective for going-to-market than broad strokes.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But just because we're not tapping into all the mindful, demure trends of the moment doesn't mean we can't have social media success—and our hard work on LinkedIn this year proves it.   We publish four blog posts per week and want to ensure we get the most value out of each one.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

10 Trends To Watch Right Now. In short, AI isnt going to kill existing B2B startups outright, but its going to separate the winners from the losers much faster than before. Have you stepped up? AI is Already Remaking SaaS. And Not Fall Behind On. Those that dont will struggle to compete in an increasingly crowded and fast-moving market.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Promote new blog posts Before Instagram introduced link stickers, it was tricky to share clickable links to articles, especially if you didn't have access to swipe-up links. But now, it's much easier to get your followers to click directly to a new blog post — or any evergreen content, for that matter.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Evaluating Seasonal Trends : Quarterly projection & projection & predictions help businesses identify seasonal trends, such as increased demand during certain times of the year.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2025

And this trend is accelerating. But for most, these trends are probably irreversible. This is how the 2 related but different categories are segmenting out. A lot of support is questions and problems from existing customers. Almost all of this is going to AI, as much as possible. And some are pushing this much higher.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 27, 2024

Here are a few more places to keep on your radar: Email newsletters : Great for timely insights and trends. RSS feeds from relevant blogs : A goldmine for industry news and thought leadership. For example, you could add tasks like "Create social media thread," "Design infographic," or "Write a summary blog post."

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, watch brand Breda Studio would benefit from searching hashtags like #watchtok or #womenswatches to find relevant TikTok creators​ Explore influencer directories : Platforms like Instagram and TikTok have directories where you can start your search and find popular and trending influencers in various niches.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Here’s a list of the seven best competitor analysis tools to help you get detailed data on your rivals, analyze trends they use, and get a wholesome picture of competitor performance — benchmarked against yours. It’s a no-brainer choice if you also have a blog and need a competitor keyword research tool.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

But the trend of slowing growth in 2023 wasn’t just a thing — it was an All Time Low. Still, the trend line does make you worry a smidge. .: And Gartner still predicts overall Cloud spend will grow to record rates in 2024. We’ve always bounced off the lows. I’m betting that’s not 2024-2026.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Partnership Strategy Makes or Breaks Success Thread AI’s deep partnership with Google Cloud reveals critical success factors: Avoid “cookie cutter” partnership approaches – Google Cloud tailors solutions to specific needs Look for partners who understand your specific position in the value chain Prioritize developer-first tooling, (..)

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2024

I don’t love this trend. But like side hustles, the trend looks to be here to stay. Everyone does this in support, but so few in CS. Do your customers love their CS exec? And how often do they call them? I like CS’s only core job being making customers truly successful.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2022

You want to be able to tell a story and connect your business to trends that are happening in the industry.”. Additionally, VCs will often share reports with you or go to their blogs and Twitter to share insightful insights about the industry. But avoid relying too much on the data. Develop a relationship with analysts.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2022

Economic Climate, Customer Behavior, & Market Trends. You can find Mutiny’s takeaways, not only from this session, but from the whole conference, on their blog. In the eye-opening session, these marketing leaders discuss the market pulse, impactful branding, and strategies for the future.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2023

When I first started to write this blog, I was thrilled with 100 page views. It’s easy to deride the latest buzzword or trend. One day, a post hit the front page of Hacker News. Page views surged to more than 15k, then the readership settled into a higher baseline. Big Data, DevOps, microservices, AI, data contracts.

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