Sales Hacker

MARCH 31, 2023

Note: The available generative AI tools for sales are evolving insanely quickly. Generative AI is all the craze, mostly because of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and their freemium go-to-market motion, which made them go viral for being the fastest ever application to reach 100 million users. Don’t see your favorite tool?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Spending Won’t Ramp Again Until Optimization Stops in about a Year Customers are optimizing their cloud spend in 2023. Machine Learning is a Secular Platform Change & a Growth Driver for Software The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

Founders of 2023 ask themselves, “What does it take to raise money right now in this uncertain market environment?” 2023 is a bit more cautious and awkward. You can see how the market builds up until Q4 of 2021 with almost $63B of cash raised, and then fell to around $43B raised in Q1 of 2022 and $10B in Q1 of 2023. The reason?

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Which is the best AI writing assistant available for marketing and customer success teams in 2023? Plenty of AI copywriting tools are in the market (and by the time I finish writing this article, there will probably be more) and each of them could be a good choice depending on your needs or budget. Let’s dive in!

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get your reps into live conversations quickly. Instant live customer conversations!

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 9, 2024

Vijay leads us on a reflective journey through the monumental achievements in AI from the 1980s to today, with a focus on the progress in healthcare and life sciences. This episode is drawn from the episodes we recorded in 2023 with Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aviv Regev, and Jakob Uszkoreit, which are linked below.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Recently, I was on the HR Heretics podcast and we talked about the increasing efficiency of software companies (in addition to other topics including the implications of AI for executives, how to diligence a candidate, & what board members expect of their people leaders). Company RPE 2013, $k RPE 2023, $k CAGR CRM 325 375 1.4%

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In case you missed it, our recent 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report highlights how, whether your business focuses on B2C, B2B, or both , SaaS and software Q4 sales bumps are significant around the globe. It’s also a great time for shoppers like you to take advantage of those deals! Set up a demo or check out our platform yourself.

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Totango

JANUARY 3, 2024

With Totango, businesses can integrate data to get a 360° view of customer health, collaborate to manage their customer portfolio , engage with customers when and where it matters, monitor and improve the metrics that matter , and scale CS faster with the power of people + AI. Plus, industry experts agree.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023. SaaS Market Snapshot In Q1 of 2023, Vendr gathered data on SaaS Spending and yielded some pretty interesting results. So, what’s driving these purchasing trends? weakest link.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As the year winds down, it's time to stroll down memory lane and revisit the moments that defined 2023 on social media.   Let’s give 2023 a quick rewind. The big screen 2023 was a landmark year for cinema, with the big screen offering a mosaic of storytelling that captivated audiences worldwide. So many memes. 

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

The 2023 list below! So what were the best attended and most upvoted SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays ? The ones you actually just have to catch up? And sign up for FREE Workshop Wednesdays here. The Seven Things all Founders Should Know About Sales. Tunguz, MongoDB, Nick Mehta, Bessemer and More!!

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Join our panelists from Khan Academy, PrismsVR, and Minecraft Education as we discuss the classroom of the future, and how important technologies including AI, XR, and gaming should play a role in it.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. The 2023 edition is the biggest so far, with 20 speakers and four categories. This makes it more important than ever to create products people actually want to use. But how do you do that?

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 6, 2024

When it comes to the innovations and development of AI in today’s world, the sky is the limit. We are witnessing new AI technology and launches daily, and Mark Zuckerberg’s launch of the new Meta AI Assistant is the latest launch in this space. What is Meta AI? Are you curious to know all about it?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. We use a data-first approach to structure teams, optimize performance, and to ultimately develop a repeatable sales process. appeared first on SaaStr.

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TurnKey Labs

MAY 1, 2023

When it comes to software development trends, it always pays for tech startups and high growth companies to be one step ahead so they can proactively leverage these trends to their advantage. Here are the Top 20 software development trends we expect to impact tech companies the most in 2023: #1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

Go ask your developer ? But it seems to be doing just fine, and in fact has embraced AI. Radically More Efficient Than Just a Year Ago A common theme for 2023 in SaaS. Elastic has seen continual growth in customer count, from 13,000 in 2021 to 20,700 at the end of 2023. It’s quietly crossed $1.2 Again, like many.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. AI today 1. But there will be more breakthroughs because now all the AI scientists in the world are working on making the stuff better. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 11, 2024

Like many small business owners, I spent a lot of time in 2023 considering how I wanted to integrate artificial intelligence into my content agency, iHartContent. At first, my instinct was to join “Team No AI” and to ignore it altogether.   Over time, I realized that the answer is no: AI isn’t a threat to me.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Croatia-based company was started around the time Croatia joined the European Union, but the country also wouldn’t start using the euro until 2023. We were on board before it was a public product, because your development on the FastSpring side was pretty much aligned with the development of our needs and wants,” Mario said.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Buffer’s AI Assistant. 0:00 / 1× Buffer's AI Assistant Here’s the catch though. To get the most out of AI, you need to provide the right inputs. This means taking the time to understand what information the AI system needs and how it processes that information. What makes a good AI prompt?

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IT World

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Videoconferencing company Zoom is pinning its growth plans on investment in AI, after reporting its first fourth quarter net loss since 2018. Reporting results on Monday, Zoom said it posted a net loss of $104 million for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2023, ended January 31, compared to a profit of $490 million in the year-earlier period.

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IT World

JUNE 28, 2023

The European Commission has announced that it will co-fund four testing and experimentation facilities, or TEFs, for AI exploration, in order to support responsible AI development and ease compliance with the EU AI Act, which is in the final stages of approval before being enacted into law.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In January, venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote “Surviving is thriving in 2023” and I think he couldn’t have been more right. Eight months later, we’re learning what functionality matters most to our end users, and as the first customer, our sales team have been fundamental to developing the product.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In September 2023, Mistral released Mistral-7B, an advanced open-source language model that has rapidly become the top choice for developers. Just this week, they introduced a new mixture of experts model – Mixtral — that’s already generating significant buzz among AI developers.

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Totango

APRIL 18, 2023

That phrase has become the earworm of 2023, stuck in our head no matter how many other tunes we try to sing. Looking at the opportunities ahead, this means we’re taking a “People + AI” approach. AI-enabled integrations will help you improve data workflows like these and reduce the time and resources that would otherwise be needed.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 26, 2023

OpenAI was one of many who attempted to build an AI tool to detect whether a given document was AI generated.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Share Alright, AI continues to be the biggest talking point of 2023 ( are we sick of talking about it yet? ) – with every SaaS company on the face of the earth looking to experiment with some kind of AI integration into their software; It’s become quite apparent that less is more in today’s world.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. There are two forces in tension : overall cost reduction efforts by companies & the desire to invest in AI. The desire for AI is broad. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The SaaS development market evolves rapidly and, according to Fortune Business Insights, by 2030, will reach 908 billion dollars. As we step into 2024, let’s talk about product development companies with exceptional track records in SaaS projects. Businesses of any size and industry can find reliable SaaS development partners.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meta + Facebook This was a particularly update-heavy week for Meta & Associates, as they held their Meta Connect 2023 conference and unveiled several updates aimed at enhancing user engagement and streamlining content sharing. Get the need-to-know highlights from the social media industry that happened the week of September 25-28.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 31, 2023

If you’ve ever checked your work with Grammarly or recorded a meeting with Otter, you’ve used AI. However, more people are paying attention to the AI tools that make up their kits and how they use them. Thanks to the speedy advances in AI technology (ChatGPT anyone?), creating content’s easier than ever.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. The key to success is developing the product and having strong economics and a clear vision, especially during tough times.

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