SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2025

So 2025 is Good Times Again. 2024 was good, as most SaaS leaders saw growth reaccelerate toward the end of the year. And 2024 was really good in B2B AI. 2025 is already even much better. Google buying Wiz for $32 Billion is the icing on the cake. But … but … But every CFO and COO I talk to still talks about “vendor consolidation” as one of their top initiatives.

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Stax

MARCH 27, 2025

A cash shortage, a payment delay, and limited payment options. These three things can derail your cash flow and frustrate your customers at checkout. Thats why 92% of consumers and 82% of companies reportedly made the switch to electronic payments, like Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) and Automated Clearing House (ACH). Checks can bounce, and cash can get lost.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2025

StubHub is the latest Internet leader to IPO. It’s not quite SaaS, but there’s a connection. Jeff Lawson, founding CEO of $16B Twilio before that … actually joined StubHub as CTO before Twilio. But he didnt get nearly as much equity as the other CTO because in his own words, he wasnt committed enough. So he got 1/5th the equity of the other CEO!

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The Daily Egg

MARCH 27, 2025

No matter who you are or what you do, you should have a personal website. A personal website is your internet home. Its the ideal. The post 5 Personal Website Examples to Copy + 6 Steps to Make Yours appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2025

Dear SaaStr: How Do I Get My First 10 Customers? Look — Youve Got To Hustle. The first 10 customers are all about doing things that dont scale. Its not about building a perfect sales machine yetits about getting scrappy and finding anyone who will pay you for your product. Heres how you do it: Start with your network. Reach out to anyone you know who might be even remotely interested in your product.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

As startups scale, effective sales implementation becomes the difference between stagnation and sustainable growth. After analyzing hundreds of sales organizations across startups, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. 1. Sales Strategy Fundamentals Start with the right price : Establish pricing that reflects value rather than just covering costs.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 27, 2025

Sales automation has become a buzzword, but as AI-driven outbound tools flood the market, the reality is more complex. The post Selling Something People Dont Know They Need with Kathleen Egan appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. With businesses adopting diverse pricing modelsranging from subscriptions to usage-based billinglegacy systems often struggle to keep up. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping this landscape, introducing automation, predictive analytics, and personalized billing experiences that streamline operations and improve financial predictability.

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CloudKettle

MARCH 27, 2025

I spent several years at Salesforce in Customer Success focused on driving value via their Products, so it was a major perspective shift to move to the Services side of the organization back in 2020. Five years later, Im now working for a specialized Salesforce Services company and am defining what Customer Success (CS) looks […] The post Products vs.

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

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

As AI capabilities accelerate, effective implementation becomes the difference between wasted investment and transformational success. After analyzing hundreds of AI deployments across startups, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. 1. AI Strategy Fundamentals Start with the problem : Define specific business challenges before exploring AI solutionsnot the other way around.

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BlueSnap

MARCH 27, 2025

You dont have to be a CFO to know businesses run on money. Steady cash flow better equips a business to sustain operations, serve its customers and attract new business through regional or global expansion. The post Could a Chief Monetization Officer Transform Your Software Platform? appeared first on BlueSnap.

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Teamgate

MARCH 27, 2025

Have you ever wondered why your emails never reach your recipient’s inbox? You hit send and wait, but they end up in spam or never get delivered. It’s frustrating, but it’s not just bad luck. Your email sender’s reputation is being judged. Email providers decide if your message is trustworthy before delivering it.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2025

On March 18, the European Commission sent preliminary findings to Alphabet regarding Alphabets failure to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). (Whats the DMA? Read more and get helpful links in this November 2023 post, Potential Apple App Store Policy Changes Due to EUs Digital Markets Act (DMA).) Per the Commissions press release , the two sets of preliminary findings specifically address Google Search giving preference to Alphabets own services, and the Play Store preventing app develope

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

71% of exit dollars in 2024 came from a new avenue : secondaries. Historically, IPOs and M&A have been the dominant exit paths for venture backed companies. Some years IPOs dominate, other M&A dominates, but in 2024 secondaries captured the super majority. When a company sells new shares to investors in exchange for dollars, they create new shares in the company - primary shares.

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Dubb

MARCH 27, 2025

Why You Should Choose Dubb Over Playable.video for Smarter Video Marketing Have you ever tried using video in your sales outreach and felt like something was missing? Maybe you started with a tool like Playable.video and thought it was exactly what you needed. Short looping video thumbnails in your emails looked slick and got The post Playable.video alternative: Why I Chose the Better Tool appeared first on Dubb Blog.

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