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83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet

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At SaaStr Annual, Tomasz Tunguz presented the results of their survey, along with a great story of a public company CRO who had deployed AI SDRs and generated a ton of pipeline … but no closed deals. But is it working yet, these AI SDRs? That was the overall result of their survey.

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Dear SaaStr: What Was Your First Meeting Pitching a VC Like?

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I also had a pretty good deck and presentation and team. In fact the very first VC I ever pitched as a founder offered to fund us tentatively with $5m by the end of the first meeting! And then I blew it. What happened? Well, first the intro was from an ex-boss, so I had a strong warm referral. Market timing was also on our side.

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You Could Win $500K – $5M in Funding. Announcing the SaaStr and Mayfield AI Demo Stage and Pitch Competition at SaaStr Annual

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Apply by April 15th. Good luck!

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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

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Flipping the format: Instead of 90% executive presentations and 10% discussion, they now focus 90% on strategic discussions 2. And I think a lot of the board members did too.” ” So here’s how Brian recently transformed HubSpot’s board meetings with three key changes: 1.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format.

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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

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Market Selection: Tackle Problems with High Barriers to Entry The financial services industry presents massive barriers to entry most successful banks are centenarians, with some like Ax being over 160 years old. But this challenge also presents opportunity.

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Just Announced: SaaStr Annual 2025 Headline Speakers: The CEOs and CXOs of Snowflake, HubSpot, Dropbox, ServiceTitan, Canva, Descript, and 100s More!!

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And our full AI Summit will be back and we’re adding a full AI Demo Stage you can apply to present at (more details soon!) There are many more speakers, workshops and braindates we’ll announce soon. It’s going to be one of our most epic line-ups ever!

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

The presentation will be packed full of real-world examples of great inclusive design (covering household products and digital services), alongside a few more detailed case studies explaining how inclusive design can be embedded successfully in the design process. What ‘inclusive design’ really means.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge.

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All Method, No Madness: Guiding Agile Teams Through Research

Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy

Join Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy, as she presents common issues agile teams have with incorporating research, and how to solve them. Using the right strategy, your agile team will collect qualitative data, interpret it, and integrate it effectively. In this webinar, she'll make specific suggestions around: Team makeup.

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Service Delivery: When Is the Right Time to Deploy Your AI?

Speaker: Dick Stark and Casey Steenport

During this webinar you will learn how: Service management is meeting up with present requirements and helping us look into the future. Service delivery is supporting the current crisis and identifying opportunities for future improvement. Top key considerations are easing digital transformation with AI.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

By the end of this presentation, you’ll understand why distributed tracing is necessary and how it can bring performance and reliability back under control. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams. Prioritize engineering work by putting it in the context of end user experience.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Learning objectives: How to create a roadmap that helps the team focus on what they need now, while offering a look-ahead to the future How to leverage your product's position on the technology adoption curve to choose the right customer-focused roadmap How to present options in a rolling wave roadmap, especially if your product is novel and not yet (..)