SaaStr
JULY 3, 2025
Dear SaaStr: How Long of a Ramp Period Should I Give a New VP of Sales? Look, to be clear, the best ones just hit the ground running. Their first week and really even their first day. Everyone else … looks a little lost when they start 😉 For a Head of Sales at a seed or Series A startup, you should give them one full sales cycle —usually 90 days—to show meaningful progress.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 1, 2025
Yesterday, Figma filed its beautifully designed S-1. It reveals a product-led growth (PLG) business with a remarkable trajectory. Figma’s collaborative design tool platform disrupted the design market long-dominated by Adobe. Here’s how the two companies stack up on key metrics for their most recent fiscal year: Metric (2024) Figma Adobe Revenue (YoY Growth) $749M (48%) $21.5B (11%) Gross Margin 88.3% 89.0% Non-GAAP Op Margin 17.0% 44.5% Sales Efficiency 1.00 0.39 Adjusted FCF Margin
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Clouded Judgement
JULY 2, 2025
Yesterday Figma filed their initial Form S-1 statement. I wrote about Figma back in Feb ‘21 for those looking for a more detailed breakdown of what the business looked like at the time (a lot has changed!). A Form S-1 is a document companies file with the SEC in preparation for listing their shares on an exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. The document contains a plethora of information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, risk factors to the business, cap tabl
USIO
JULY 1, 2025
Let’s be honest: payments used to be a pain. If you’re a SaaS founder, product leader, or engineer, you’ve probably stared down the barrel of a tangled payment integration wondering, “Why does something so essential feel so unnecessarily complicated?” You’re not alone. The truth is, the world of embedded payments has evolved—dramatically. What once required months of development, multiple vendors, endless compliance headaches, and the patience of a saint… can now be handled with a few lines of c
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The Daily Egg
JULY 1, 2025
Looking for the best Hello Bar alternatives to build popups, banners, and opt-in messages on your website? You’ve come to the right place. In this. The post The 7 Best Hello Bar Alternatives That I Recommend appeared first on The Daily Egg.
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Sales Hacker
JUNE 27, 2025
Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.
Clouded Judgement
JUNE 27, 2025
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now New Rules For a New Game One of the biggest shifts happening in startups right now is that the old rule of thumbs for how you build a successful software startup just don’t hold in the age of AI. Or at least, they don’t hold if you’re trying to build a breakout company… So many of these markets are still wide open.
USIO
JUNE 27, 2025
If you’re running a business today, chances are you’re already relying on APIs in some form—whether you realize it or not. But when it comes to payments, API solutions are more than just tech—they’re a practical tool for improving speed, security, and efficiency. 1. What Are API Solutions in Payments? API stands for Application Programming Interface.
The Daily Egg
JUNE 30, 2025
Looking for the best Poptin alternatives? We recommend OptiMonk, Sleeknote, and ConvertFlow. My Personal Top 3 Alternatives to Poptin In a hurry? Here are my. The post The 4 Best Poptin Alternatives That We Recommend appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
SaaStr
JUNE 30, 2025
These are the AI tools that help our tiny SaaStr team just hum. We’re not a massive organization with unlimited resources. We’re a tiny team that needs to punch above our weight every single day. These tools make that possible. 50% of SaaStr already runs on AI. Our goal? 80%. Because every minute we save on operational tasks is a minute we can spend creating better content, building stronger community connections, investing in better start-ups, and delivering more value to the B2B wo
Kellblog
JUNE 29, 2025
Every day I hear more and more about the “sea of sameness” from founders, CEOs, CROs, and CMOs. The dialog goes something like this: There are so many products out there, They are getting more similar, Customers are more confused than ever, Unable to see the differences between them. Thus, we are lost in sea of sameness. I believe the first four statements are largely true, though I might challenge statement two.
Stax
JULY 2, 2025
In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, simply acquiring customers isn’t enough. The real key to sustainable growth and increased revenue lies in maximizing payment attachment – the adoption and usage of integrated payments by your existing customer base. This powerful concept moves beyond just selling software; it transforms your platform into the central hub for your customers’ financial operations, creating deeper value and unlocking significant revenue streams.
FastSpring
JUNE 27, 2025
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) transactions have been at center stage in recent months, with major legal shakeups across the U.S., Japan, Brazil, and the EU poised to open up and unlock additional revenue channels for mobile publishers. With these regulations and rulings stacking up, it’s never been easier to directly sell in-app purchases to your players across the globe.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
The Daily Egg
JULY 3, 2025
A landing page is a focused and intentional space designed to offer web visitors one clear message or course of action. Usually, the goal is. The post 6 Top-Tier Landing Page Examples Everyone Should Copy appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JUNE 26, 2025
The AI Account Executive Is Arriving. Here’s What Support — Which is 18+ Months Ahead — Teaches Us About What Comes Next. Customer support cracked the deflection code with AI. Companies are routinely achieving 60%+ deflection rates – meaning AI handles 6 out of 10 (or more) support tickets before a human agent ever gets involved.
The Moz Blog
JULY 1, 2025
Struggling to stay visible in Google’s AI-driven search? Learn how to pivot your content strategy for AI Mode and future-proof your brand’s discoverability.
User Pilot
JUNE 30, 2025
You’ve built a great product, but users keep dropping off before they see its value? I’ve been there. At times, even a great in-app onboarding flow isn’t enough. Some users forget to come back. Others never make it to activation. That’s where an onboarding email sequence comes in. An effective sequence can re-engage users and help them hit the first milestone faster.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
FastSpring
JUNE 28, 2025
Here at FastSpring, we’ve been celebrating our 20th anniversary all month long, but it’s finally our actual cake day! FastSpring was officially founded on June 28, 2005. Below, check out some of the awesome ways FastSpring team members have been celebrating around the globe. To learn more about FastSpring’s meaningful history in the fintech and ecommerce space, check out our podcast episode with one of the original cofounders and the original CEO of FastSpring Dan Engel, and current CEO David Na
The Daily Egg
JULY 1, 2025
If you’ve ever struggled to stay consistent with content, an editorial calendar might be the missing link. It’s more than just a publishing schedule. It’s. The post Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Content With an Editorial Calendar appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JUNE 29, 2025
Dear SaaStr: How Should Founders Build Their First Customer Success Team? Building a Customer Success (CS) team early is critical for SaaS startups. Here’s how early-stage founders should approach it: Hire Early, Even Before It Feels Necessary Don’t wait until churn becomes a problem. Customer Success should be a single-digit hire—ideally, your first 5-10 employees should include at least one CS hire.
Neil Patel
JULY 1, 2025
You’re running paid search campaigns. The targeting is dialed in. Your copy is converting. But somehow, your performance is slipping. You might be getting hijacked. Ad hijacking is one of the most overlooked threats in paid media. Hijackers will often create their own media or copy to mimic your ads. In many cases, it can be difficult to detect but it’s a bit more obvious on social media (i.e., logos or branding can look off, creative looks cheap or rushed, etc.).
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
User Pilot
JUNE 30, 2025
Video onboarding can be the solution you need when text-only tutorials are driving your users away. Why? Text-heavy onboarding flows can overwhelm new users, leading to increased support tickets and slower activation. But videos provide a more human way to guide and demonstrate how your app works, and drive customer retention. In this article, we’ll show you how to use video content in your product management strategy to help users learn at their own pace.
FastSpring
JULY 3, 2025
In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview payments industry legend and VP of Payments at FastSpring, Jeremy Waxman about his thoughts on what the most common payment stack attacks are, why bad actors choose those particular types of attacks, and what you can do to make your payment stack more secure regardless of who your payment provider is. With 25+ years of experience spanning Comcast, Fiserv, and Digital River, Jeremy has seen it all — from brazen carding attacks to operationally overwhe
The Daily Egg
JULY 2, 2025
In the past, I’ve outlined a couple of reasons why I’m reluctant to recommend Wishpond to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). If you landed here, The post 5 Wishpond Alternatives that Won’t Let You Down appeared first on The Daily Egg.
SaaStr
JULY 3, 2025
Oracle Cloud Infra signs $30B+ year deal with OpenAI 🚀Many ways to benefit from AI 😪And many ways to lose from it If Oracle can find a way … pic.twitter.com/1rOZrzaRw4 — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 1, 2025 While everyone’s watching the flashy AI startups and hyperscalers duke it out, two enterprise software giants are quietly crushing it in the Age of AI.
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.
Neil Patel
JUNE 27, 2025
Instagram ads can work incredibly well. But most brands burn budget before they see results. Broad targeting, weak CTR, or stale creative can all drive your costs through the roof. Let’s break down what Instagram ads really cost and how to keep ad spend under control without sacrificing performance. Key Takeaways Instagram ads average $0.20–$2.00 per click or $6.00–$10.00 per 1,000 impressions.
ChurnZero
JULY 3, 2025
Picture this: You work for a startup. You know customer success is essential. But you’re struggling to build a robust CS function without overextending your resources. Sound familiar? Enter fractional customer success leadership: hiring a seasoned CS professional to take on a role on a part-time or contract basis. This might just be the flexible, scalable solution you’ve been searching for.
Sales Hacker
JULY 1, 2025
The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Austin Hughes is the founder and CEO of Unify, a platform helping high-growth teams turn buying signals into pipeline. Previously, Austin led the growth team at Ramp, where he scaled the org from 1 to 25+ and pioneered a product-led, experiment-driven GTM approach.
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