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Microsoft as a Mirror - What We Can Expect for SaaS in 2023

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. 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. Yesterday, Microsoft announced earnings.

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The Latest 2023 Napkin Reveal: What it Takes to Raise Capital with Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Given the massive downturn that started 18 months ago, many SaaS founders are nervous about what it takes to raise capital in SaaS in 2023 / 2024. Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy.

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Thanks to Maxio, Merge, Orum, SalesIntel, and Vendr for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

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. Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling. The post Thanks to Maxio, Merge, Orum, SalesIntel, and Vendr for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

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AI & The Evolution Of The Modern Revenue Stack

Sales Hacker

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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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

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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What Is Pendo and Is It Worth Using?

User Pilot

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth. In short, the feature allows teams to collect and prioritize feature requests at scale.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021

Unbounce

While new AI products are surely on the horizon— self-driving cars are coming any day now, possibly, maybe— AI’s most dramatic effects on your job today lies in adding new features across the tools that you’re already using. But, one day soon, you’ll marvel at all the things AI sneakily helped pull off your plate.