Sun.Mar 16, 2025

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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

SaaStr

Alex Rosenblatt was the first marketing hire and Chief Marketing Officer at Datadog, all the way through IPO and beyond. He spent over eight years scaling their marketing from zero to supporting a multi-billion dollar public company. Prior to Datadog, Alex held leadership positions at several high-growth SaaS companies and has a proven track record of building marketing engines that deliver consistent, measurable growth.

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Halving R&D with AI & the Impact to Valuation

Tom Tunguz

Engineering teams within AI application startups are much smaller than a classic software company - maybe half the size or less. Let’s run an experiment : let’s assume every public software company benefits immediately to the same extent & cuts R&D spending by half. 1 How would the value of these businesses change? 2 72% of unprofitable SaaS companies would become profitable.

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Dear SaaStr: How Should I Approach Hiring My First Executives?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Should I Approach Hiring My First Executives? Early-stage hiring is one of the most critical things youll do as a founder, and its also one of the hardest. Most founders arent naturally great at recruitingits a skill you have to force yourself to develop. Heres how Id approach it: Spend 20% of Your Time Recruiting Youre probably not spending enough time on this.

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Customer Churn

Stax

The average churn rate for the software industry as a whole is 14%. Thats actually one of the lowest churn rates across all industries. That said, industry experts agree that your SaaS companys goal churn should be below 2%. As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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AI’s Strategic Role in Defining and Delivering Measurable Outcomes

Valuize Consulting

For the C-Suite of Today’s Competitive B2B Technology Landscape: Feature-driven product development is no longer enough. Todays B2B Technology customers demand tangible, measurable outcomes. As a C-suite leader, your success hinges on defining and delivering these outcomes. AI is not just an enablerits a strategic necessity for driving customer value, retention, and revenue growth Moving Beyond Features: The Outcome-Centric Imperative Your sales and marketing teams tout the benefits of you

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How to Improve Mobile User Experience: 7 Tips from a UX Researcher

User Pilot

Imagine youre on your mobile phone, trying to find something on a site, and its taking forever to load. What do you do? You get annoyed after a few seconds and hit the back button. Ive seen how mobile users have zero patience. If your design doesnt make it ridiculously easy to navigate and get what they need, youll lose them in seconds. Users are 5x more likely to abandon a task if your site isnt mobile-optimized.