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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

” Spotting Early Trends : “If you take this ability to not follow the herd and the experience, you can spot trends. When a trend is early, everybody thinks you’re wrong. I’d always done general software things – database software, mainframes, PeopleSoft, Salesforce.com platform for everybody.”

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8 Out of 10 SaaS Founders Are Burning Cash Faster Than Ever — And Why YC is On Fire (SVB’s 2025 Data Breakdown)

SaaStr

Bankruptcy Filings in Silicon Valley Are Surging The Surprise : Despite all the talk about “landing softly” and “extending runway,” bankruptcy filings in Silicon Valley counties are on a clear upward trend through 2024. Company fundamentals and sector dynamics matter more than macro conditions. #9.

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

SaaStr

2025-2026 Anduril 2017 Palmer Luckey Defense Tech $1B $30.5B Some financial metrics show concerning trends, with one source reporting 0% year-over-year revenue growth for 2024—though this conflicts with management’s stated 40% growth figures. Filed April 2025 Stripe 2010 Patrick Collison Payments $1.4T volume $91.5B

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The one thing SaaS go-to-market teams keep getting wrong (and how to fix it)

Totango

Account executives can’t sell like it’s 2017 anymore. Every business needs a customer-led growth motion to stay in business for the long term. Go-to-market teams need to prioritize customer ROI as the driver of decision-making, metrics tracking, and relationship management.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How LLMs Are Trained: From Raw Data to SaaS Disruption

How To Buy Saas

Introduced in the seminal 2017 paper “ Attention Is All You Need ” by Google researchers, the transformer architecture has become the dominant paradigm in AI models. In SaaS BI tools, its becoming a trend to have an Ask the data feature powered by an LLM. and hardware also gets faster per dollar.

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GTM 128: The Death of Demos and Selling What Customers Actually Need with Fred Viet

Sales Hacker

In fact, it’s as a matter of fact, funny thing is, I think a few years ago, we were looking at the Fitbit adoption and it was higher than in the U.S. So we’ll jump you in a time machine and go back to whatever moment sticks out in your head. Fred Viet: It’s more an advice that I receive. You don’t go really deep.