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Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? Ask-Me-Anything Part 1 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Vertical software is nothing new,” Jason says.

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The New Discipline Web3 Software Companies Must Develop

Tom Tunguz

The business builds software to help other crypto companies grow. Perhaps you’ll sell infrastructure to help other startups scale or software to manage internal operations. The customer roster brims with the best names, each client increases their spend every year, and the sales team outpaces its quota handsomely.

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Using a Gaming Payment Gateway to Monetize Your Game’s Web Shop

FastSpring

Setting up a web shop for players to buy subscriptions or in-game items outside of mobile app marketplaces is a great way to create additional revenue streams for your game while saving on steep marketplace fees. But it’s only one piece of the puzzle, and you may need to set up a little more to make the system work easily and efficiently.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Trisha Price. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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What The Downturn Will Probably Look Like in SaaS

SaaStr

Housing prices apparently are falling in the Bay Area. The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. We still doubled sales in 2009. Slack is mortal.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

Smaller companies have become more sophisticated in the tools they use, the IT systems, and automation for onboarding and offboarding, and all of that has resulted in needing to plug stuff into the tools you’re using quickly. If you want payments, sign up for Stripe. Which is why it’s almost a misnomer to call them Enterprise features.

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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. The example doesn’t illustrate the problem/solution It’s inherent that a waiter or waitress doesn’t make a lot of money. That’s it. Don’t include it.