Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2024

If AI continues on its current trajectory or accelerates, what will change in your business? We’ve been asking leaders of companies & departments this question & the answers aren’t clear. In a few years, consensus agrees that rote work of BDRs & paralegals & software engineering will be somewhat to mostly automated. But determining the timing of that impact is much more difficult : it depends on the accuracy of the AI.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What Are Some of the Most Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Pitching VCs? I’ve invested almost $200m as part of SaaStr Fund / 2024. A few top mistakes founders make: #1. Not making cold email truly great. Don’t ask to pick someone’s brain, or coffee. Make the cold email so great, you’d want to invest based on just it alone. 2 Cold Emails I Funded For Millions #2.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 27, 2024

While I’d been using the Internet since the early 1980s at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, the first time I remember using the worldwide web was in the mid 1990s. August 9th, 1995, to be specific. I’d recently moved to Paris and heard about this layer that relied on a hypertext transfer protocol to connect web browsers and web sites. So I fired up a browser and, in order to reconnect with home, went to sfchronicle.com.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Top Posts: #1. The Bar Has Gone Up: The New Era of HyperFunctional SaaS with Jason Lemkin #2. 5 Pros, and 5 Cons, to Taking a VC Round at a Very High Valuation #3. Pitchbook: The Number of Active VCs is Down 62% From Its Peak. And Down Again in 2024. #4. Zuora Goes Private for $1.7 Billion. Why This is Good News for SaaS. #5. One Thing is Clear: AI Is Leading to 1000+ New Competitors in SaaS Top Videos and Pods: #1. “How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator

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Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Many software companies are exploring PayFac-as-a-Service providers in an effort to drive more embedded payments revenue and gain greater control over the customer experience. But there are nuances in a PayFac relationship that often get downplayed – nuances that can impact the risk and resource responsibilities of software providers. In this webinar, integrated payments veteran, Pete Uselman discusses the following: What is a PayFac?

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