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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

SaaStr

So in any interesting bit of convergent evolution, both Monday and HubSpot have now passed 250,000 customers. Both started SMB (Monday even more so), and Both have now gone more enterprise (Monday even more) But still with the vast majority of their customers SMB. Both have also evolved from different roots (marketing for HubSpot, team management for Monday) to now have CRMs as their core.

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How To Build a Convincing Opt In Popup That Gets Signups

The Daily Egg

Everyone complains about popups. But if you are trying to grow your business, who cares? Opt in popups work. The right offer, shown at the. The post How To Build a Convincing Opt In Popup That Gets Signups appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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From Zero to Zinger: Using AI to Build a Street Smart Chicken Wing Brand

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Like many people I want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). This post is part of a series where I experiment with AI tools, share what I build and learn. My hope is that these posts will create discussion around this transformational technology, its use cases and maybe even help others on their journey of AI discovery. The focus of this experiment is to use AI tools to launch a fictional buffalo chicken wing restaurant called Wing Ting that is based out of Shoreditch in London.

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Prepaid Card Issuing vs. Traditional Payout Methods

USIO

The way businesses pay vendors, employees, gig workers, and customers is changing fast. And prepaid card issuing is leading the charge. If your business still leans on traditional payout methods like paper checks or manual ACH, it’s time to consider what you might be missing. Lets explore how prepaid card issuing stacks up against traditional payoutsand what makes the most sense for your business.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

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.

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Clouded Judgement 5.16.25 - Net New ARR Trends

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Net New ARR Trends We’re about halfway through Q1 ‘25 earnings season. As you all know, one of my favorite metrics to look at is net new ARR added in a quarter. For some public companies, they disclose ARR.

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Crazy Egg Tracking: See Exactly How Visitors Use Your Website

The Daily Egg

If youve ever wondered what visitors actually do on your website (not just what pages they visit, but where they click, how far they scroll, The post Crazy Egg Tracking: See Exactly How Visitors Use Your Website appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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The Cheese Shop that Blends Tradition with Tech

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Like many people I want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). This post is part of a series where I experiment with AI tools, share what I build and learn. My hope is that these posts will create discussion around this transformational technology, its use cases and maybe even help others on their journey of AI discovery. The focus of this experiment is to use AI tools to launch a fictional cheese shop called La Fromagerie that is based out of Queen Anne in Seattle.

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The Best Time to Post on Threads in 2025 — Data from 700K+ Posts

Buffer Resources

If you’ve been around here a while, you’ll know that crunching the numbers to figure out the best time to post on all major social media platforms is basically our love language. And now we have enough data to add Threads to our roster, too! Because even though Threads uses an algorithm to decide what you (and your target audience) sees in the feed, when you post still has an impact.

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Use FastSpring’s Expanded Local Payment Methods to Grow Revenue in New Markets

FastSpring

In todays digital-first economy, expanding into high-growth markets isnt just an opportunity for global businesses its a necessity. In recent years, digital economies have grown exponentially across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, and the sheer market size makes these geographies impossible to ignore. So, what can digital goods companies do to break into these markets effectively?

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

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.

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AI Adoption: 5 Hard Truths About the Fastest Technology Transformation in History With Aaron Levie, CEO Box

SaaStr

We’ll do deep dives on all the SaaStr + AI Summit 2025 speakers soon! We wanted to kick it off with some of the key insights with Box CEO Aaron Levie and IBM VP AI Raj Datta: The Numbers Don’t Lie – ChatGPT Hit 500M Users in Just ~2 Years Let’s start with the cold, hard metrics that SaaS leaders seem to underestimate: AI adoption is happening at an unprecedented velocity.

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Need to Know | Embedded Finance Unlocks Value for Underserved Small Business Sectors

Stax

The rapid evolution of embedded payments is reshaping industries and unlocking new opportunities, particularly for small business sectors that have often been overlooked. Adam Gray , Chief Transformation Officer at Stax, recently sat down with Hal Levey of PYMNTS to discuss emerging trends in payment processing and vertical integration. By enabling more tailored solutions, streamlining operations, and addressing vital concerns like fraud and security, embedded finance is becoming a crucial driv

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Sourdough & Silicon: Turning AI into the Secret Sauce for Pizzerias

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Like many people I want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). This post is part of a series where I experiment with AI tools, share what I build and learn. My hope is that these posts will create discussion around this transformational technology, its use cases and maybe even help others on their journey of AI discovery. The focus of this experiment is to use AI tools to launch a fictional pizza restaurant called Vero that is based out of the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn in New York

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“All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Useful.”

Kellblog

“I have a map of the United States … actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full-size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it.” — Stephen Wright (comedian) Much as we build maps as models of the physical world, we build mathematical models all the time in the business world.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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.

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GA4 Custom Event Tracking for SaaS Without the Headache

The Moz Blog

Want to go beyond pageviews in GA4? Learn how to use custom event tracking to understand user journeys in SaaS and turn insights into growth.

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The Great AI Reset: It’s Time to Refound Your Start-Up. Now.

SaaStr

Is your B2B startup now part of the past … because it was founded before 2023? Maybe. Be honest. Has growth slowed while new AI entrants in your space are growting at epic rates? No one’s coming to save you. But … but … it’s too late to refound your start-up in the Age of AI. It’s not too late. We are early. [link] — Akshay Krishnaswamy (@hyperindexed) May 5, 2025 The Pre-AI Stigma Is Real If you founded your SaaS company before 2023, you’re wearin

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How AI Redefines User Experience

Tom Tunguz

What if every software spoke English? We asked this question about two years ago but now they do - with AI we can retrofit existing apps to speak English. I don’t want to have to figure out any particular menu to find a setting or understand how a product manager or designer intended me to use the product. I just want to talk to my computer and tell it what to do.

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Brewed Differently: Crafting a Distinctive Berlin Brewery Brand

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Like many people I want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). This post is part of a series where I experiment with AI tools, share what I build and learn. My hope is that these posts will create discussion around this transformational technology, its use cases and maybe even help others on their journey of AI discovery. The focus of this experiment is to use AI tools to launch a fictional brewery and beer hall called Pine Lake Beer Hall that is located in Berlins vibrant Neuklln nei

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Should you buy or build your customer success platform?

ChurnZero

It’s the ultimate technology dilemma for customer teams and the execs who control budgets: should you buy or build your customer success platform? When presenting a business case for a customer success platform, you can expect this to be the primary objection of a CEO or CFO: can we build this in our CRM instead of buying a new tool? Should you use the tools you already have to build something that will kind ofget you what youre looking for, or should you buy a tool developed for that spec

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ZoomInfo Just Changed Its Ticker to $GTM – Here’s Why That Matters

Sales Hacker

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.

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Our CAC is Way Too High. Should We Cut and Marketing To The Bone?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We Have a $7m ARR Business But Our CAC is Way Too High. Should We Cut and Marketing To The Bone? Look don’t throw money away on sales & marketing. If your sales team can’t close anything , you need to part ways. If you are doing intiatives in marketing and they are bringing in zero customers, just stop those things. But more often, sales and marketing is closing some deals, just not enough.

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Why IoT Monetization Fails—And How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions

Blulogix

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. IoT and Telematics companies arent struggling to innovate. Youre deploying smart devices, generating rich telemetry data, and providing actionable insights to customers. But when it comes to turning those deployments into recurring revenuethings fall apart.

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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

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.

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Prompts & Pitmasters: Building a BBQ Restaurant Brand with AI

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Like many people I want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). This post is part of a series where I experiment with AI tools, share what I build and learn. My hope is that these posts will create discussion around this transformational technology, its use cases and maybe even help others on their journey of AI discovery. The focus of this experiment is to use AI tools to launch a fictional Texas BBQ restaurant called Ember & Smoke that is located in Kdbyen, Copenhagen's historic

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The Power 3 SaaS Metrics That Predict If You’ll Scale or Stall

The SaaS CFO

Scaling a SaaS business sounds greatmore logos, more revenue, better valuation. But there are three metrics that will determine if you have the potential to scale and if you are scaling versus growing. These arent vanity metrics. You are swimming upstream if these metrics are not improving. Looking for a path to profitability? Start calculating […] The post The Power 3 SaaS Metrics That Predict If Youll Scale or Stall appeared first on The SaaS CFO.

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Your Content SHOULD Repeat Itself

Adhere Creative

You've said it before, but you NEED to say it again if you want to actually be heard by your audience.

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The Reality of Selling Your Company: What No One Tells Founders with Brian Halligan, Co-Founder and Chair of HubSpot

SaaStr

So a little while ago we did a very deep dive with Brian Halligan, co-founder and chair of HubSpot. One of the topics we did a deep dive on was mergers & acquisitions, and it was so good I wanted to just break out that portion of the convo: Net Net: Acquisition offers are far less common than you think. Despite HubSpot’s success, Brian Halligan reveals they “didn’t get any acquisition offers” in 18 years.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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Audit-Proof IT: Building a GASB-Compliant Internal Billing System

Blulogix

By BluLogix Team Audit-Proof IT: Building a GASB-Compliant Internal Billing System In government and higher education, IT spending isnt just about efficiencyits about accountability. CIOs and IT finance leaders are expected to track every dollar, justify every allocation, and survive every audit. But many are still relying on spreadsheets and outdated tools that werent designed for todays IT complexity or compliance demands.

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Gen Z’s ‘Conscious Unbossing’: What It Means for CRM Leadership Strategies

Teamgate

Explore how Gen Z's 'Conscious Unbossing' is transforming CRM leadership, emphasizing collaboration, autonomy, and modern management strategies.

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How Marketers Accelerate Data Cloud ROI

CloudKettle

Looking to turn your customer data into real, measurable ROI? In this blog I share how Salesforce Data Cloud and Advertising Studio can help marketers activate data in powerful, practical ways. Working for Salesforce for almost 14 years exposed me to the ups & downs of launching or buying new products on the regular. Some […] The post How Marketers Accelerate Data Cloud ROI appeared first on CloudKettle.