SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

Graduation rates plummeting : The percentage of seed companies successfully raising Series A has dropped significantly across all industries, creating a “crunch” for many startups.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2023

Every startup needs an AI strategy - not just for fundraising or press appeal. ChatGPT & Midjourney have educated hundreds of millions that we can & should expect more from software. Every company will be an AI company. User expectations have changed.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

Investors and Venture Capitalists : The conference offers an opportunity for investors to discover promising SaaS startups and connect with founders seeking funding. According to ChatGPT. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I use ChatGPT , Slack , Gong , 1SE , Midjourney , and Webflow , of course. #2. This last year ChatGPT has been my best new app. #3. During her tenure she also led Dropbox’s AI strategy, including the acquisition of search startup Command E. This week we have Rachel Wolan, CPO at Webflow! #1.

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

Enough With the AI Job Applications Sure, use ChatGPT to improve your grammar. But everyone can see the generic job application written by ChatGPT. But if you start asking about comp before you even understanding the job … that’s a flag, at least for most startups and scale-ups. Ask about comp. Not in the first 5 minutes.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

He was just using ChatGPT to generate Python code. Revelations in the Market After the Launch of OpenAI for Enterprise OpenAI shares three things about their journey to building ChatGPT Enterprise, learnings, and what is coming. There’s a huge demand for SMBs, startups, and founders, and the use cases are endless.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 2, 2023

I asked ChatGPT about the numbers 1 & 4. I’m working with ProductBoard to understand how different B2B startups are planning to leverage AI with a survey. Which one is bigger? Sometimes, 1 was bigger. Othertimes, 4 was bigger. This is called a non-deterministic or stochastic answer. The answers have inconsistent logic.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

SaaStr 696: The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal  5. How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel 2. SaaStr 697: What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024  4.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2023

When ChatGPT finds formatting foibles in the data, it fixes them. But, these features will surely be implemented in the future by SaaS startups. Here’s the video of my session with ChatGPT. There’s a lot to like about using Code Interpreter. First, I can describe my ideal chart in English.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 8, 2024

At this pace, we should expect AI startups to raise about $55b in 2024. AI startups now command more than 20% share of all US venture dollars across categories, including healthcare, biotech, & software. But after the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there’s a marked inflection point. Venture capitalists have invested $18.3

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

SaaStr 696: The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal     3. How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel 3. The 2 Hour Rule The 6 Must-Have Go-To-Market Models Divvy Used to Its $2.5B Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

AI doesn’t magically make every payroll or SOC2 product better, and hooking ChatGPT into an app doesn’t magically change the game. If you outsource your content to some crappy agency that recycles ChatGPT, your content marketing will fail. Q: What are the Odds of Success for a Startup to Hit $100M in Revenue?

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2024

Figma is where we collaborate on design, and – increasingly – ChatGPT helps out across both design and written work. He’s spent the last 20 years in startups of different sizes and stages, driving growth, building community, and producing borderline irresponsible amounts of swag. for our podcast.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 is a unicorn startup that’s stayed in the game for over a decade. G2’s OpenAI-Powered Monty Changes The Game G2’s Monty, powered by ChatGPT, will be the best way to discover longtail apps for software buyers. Why ChatGPT and not some other language model? Startups have to have a plan.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. This changes the playing arena for startups.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2023

Which post is better : hand-written, ChatGPT, or custom-trained models? Within the answers to those questions lies business opportunity for startups - enabling product & engineering teams to build new product experiences with confidence. The blogbot often returned no answers for questions I thought would be straightforward.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

We will soon add support for ChatGPT, enabling customers to use it in their own applications for the first time. Yesterday’s call reinforces the cost-focused mindset of the buyer & the lower growth rates startups should expect. Azure ML revenue alone has increased more than 100 percent for five quarters in a row 4.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. So tech startups looking to work with AI have potential in this exciting space. Therefore, if you are a startup looking into this layer, you must be prepared with significant funding.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Typical Startup Saw a 24% Increase in Sales Cycle in 2023. The first two quarters of this year were rough for startups. Why Every Startup Needs an AI Strategy. ChatGPT & AI upended the ecosystem. The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Getting off the ground is one thing — an easy pitch of being an HR tech startup focused on improving hiring. In a year like this, SMB is doing worse, with a lot more churn and startups going out of business. The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

Yesterday I published a brief LinkedIn post with a few thoughts on ChatGPT and the implications for SaaS companies. As we enter month 3 CE (ChatGPT Era), I’d like to share a few observations and questions on the ChatGPT phenomenon and what it might mean for SaaS startups. What happened? What happened?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

Kyle made this mistake in his first startup. Kyle mentioned his first startup mistake of hiring a bunch of reps because of one closing a bunch of deals, and the new hires led to wasted time, laying off 25% of them, and burning six months chasing their tails. Find a way to document. It’ll give you scaling superpowers.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 11, 2024

Think nonprofits and Silicon Valley startups have nothing in common?   As a tech writer and editor, I’ve also steeped in the “rocket fuel” of the startup world.   As a tech writer and editor, I’ve also steeped in the “rocket fuel” of the startup world. Think again.

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IT World

MAY 10, 2023

Alphabet-backed AI startup Anthropic has disclosed the set of value guidelines that has been used to train its ChatGPT rival, Claude , in the wake of concerns about incorrect and biased information being being given to users of generative AI programs.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2024

There are so many great tools out there, like Perplexity , ChatGPT , ZoomInfo , Apollo , or whatever. So many startups are seeing net new logo growth slow to zero. If you want to stand out in sales with a prospect, a renewal, or even finding a job, do 15 to 20 minutes of research before the call. Do your research.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 11, 2023

To say there’s no shortage of opinions on ChatGPT and the future of AI would be an understatement. As the world moved to the Cloud in the 2000s and 2010s, a large percentage of the value was created by new SaaS startups, not by on-premise incumbents who managed to move to the Cloud. Is the same about to happen with AI?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Her leadership also left an indelible mark on Qumulo, a data storage startup, and Artefact, with its spinoff—10,000ft—acquired by Smartsheet in 2019. Discussed in this Episode: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for creative, high-volume ad testing and optimization.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 7, 2023

  In my case, I found my sweet spot in content marketing, the African startup and VC scene, and career development – the pillars of my content strategy.   My target audience – VCs, CMOs, founders, and fellow content marketers – crave insights into content marketing and startup building.

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Mucker Capital

AUGUST 9, 2024

We invited Michael Kleinman , founder of AI Top Tools , to share his perspective on the most useful AI tools startups can use to build their companies: The Best AI Tools for Startups in 2024 Startups thrive with the right AI tools, which can revolutionize efficiency and creativity.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Mario explained that currently, if a candidate is given a test, pastes a question to ChatGPT, and then pastes the answer back, many may feel like this is cheating.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Tactics individuals and startups can take to get started with generative AI tools. 6:08) Getting ChatGPT to write Andy’s father’s obituary. (8:26) A framework for thinking about AI initiatives as quick wins, differentiated use cases, and transformational. Highlights: (3:44) Andy’s journey into machine learning and AI. (6:08)

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This growth isn’t just coming from new AI-native startups; even the big players are doubling down, upgrading their offerings with powerful AI capabilities. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, coincides with the recent increase in adoption. Despite the growth, GenAI adoption is still low overall, with only 1.4%

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Pete also authored Founding Sales , a startup sales handbook, and established Modern Sales, the nation’s largest community for sales operations, leadership, and enablement. Attention’s generalized insights allow you to ask any question across all of your conversations – think of it like ChatGPT for your sales calls.

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 13, 2024

So, when working full-time, managing an agency, scaling a startup, or managing multiple clients, time management becomes an uphill battle. Once you have the comments database, ask ChatGPT to Refine those comments Generate more content ideas Generate a list of related questions Here’s one of my comments I asked Chatgpt to expand on. 

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Mucker Capital

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In this Mucker Growth Session, Rosemary Brisco and Bob Mitton , renowned consultants in the AI field, focus on how startups can utilize AI to enhance growth and efficiency across various business functions. AI, including ChatGPT, generates responses based on patterns from its training data, which may not always be accurate.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2023

Five months after launching was the first time my creator startup hit four-figures in earnings. What I did have was years of startup experience, especially in marketing. If I used ChatGPT to write an article (not counting access to the web plugin from a Plus subscription), it would only be referencing facts up to September 2021.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

for AI based automation Chat GPT frequently How much are you spending per/rep? When a new groundbreaking piece of technology like OpenAI comes out (previous: mobile, social, etc), it usually breeds a new wave of startups that can be more agile and take advantage of new markets being created, faster than the incumbents.

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