Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 20, 2025

The Brief This experiment explores how AI tools can be used to rapidly concept, build, and launch a fictional brand La Fromagerie , a boutique cheese shop located in Queen Anne, Seattle. Customer Acquisition Strategy Digital presence will play a foundational role.

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IT World

APRIL 19, 2023

Atlassian is rolling out new generative AI capabilities that will be embedded in the company’s entire portfolio of workforce management cloud products and are designed to help both service-based and project-based work teams be more efficient. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Announcements of several blockbuster acquisitions, most notably from Adobe acquiring Figma, which was the highest valuation multiple offered in an acquisition for any software company at scale. As you think about leveraging AI and optimizing R&D efficiency, it’s worthwhile to know how the best companies are doing it.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 20, 2025

The Brief This experiment showcases how AI tools can be used to conceptualize and launch Ember & Smoke , a fictional Texas BBQ restaurant set in Kdbyen, Copenhagens historic meatpacking district. The project explores the potential of generative AI to rapidly build a distinctive culinary brand that merges Southern U.S.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2023

I wondered how the current wave of generative AI image makers like Midjourney, Dall-E, & Stable Diffusion would fare creating images for a few of my posts. What the $6B Coupa Acquisition Means for Software Startups. Plus, images garner more interest across social media. Here are the results.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

They have privacy, security, vendor transitions, and acquisition support. G2 is taking these search capabilities a step further with generative AI. So imagine a world where 40% of B2B sales don’t require a broken process, and the best AI can do it for you. It’s no wonder generative AI is a breakout category right now.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 20, 2025

Brief This experiment explores how AI tools can be used to launch Wing Ting , a fictional buffalo chicken wing restaurant rooted in the heart of Shoreditch, London. The aim is to showcase how generative AI can fuel the end-to-end creation of a culturally sharp, streetwise food brandfrom concept to launch.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI. In this presentation at Saastr, we broke down the major questions for startups building with AI : the layer, the moat, the market, & the depth of AI to use. The Implications of Increased Regulatory Scrutiny for Startup Acquisitions.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

If you grew by acquisitions that drove immediate growth, whatever you buy has to grow 20%, too. Some public companies have to be more cautious. If there is no innovation and you’ve maxed out your existing TAM, you’ll start slowing down. So, you always want to think about your next move.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

In fact, 63% of CAB members said their top 2024 prediction was that businesses would put more strategic and bottom-line emphasis on expansion versus acquisition to drive revenue growth. Additionally, our CAB members are buzzing about AI. Retention is the new acquisition. Most expect to see CS emerging as a growth engine.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gartner's webinar focuses on the crucial role of generative AI in evolving AI service offerings, aimed at the PM team for understanding GenAI's impact. How optimizing product experiences can reduce costs associated with customer acquisition, service, and retention.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Most recently, Sundt worked at IBM helping financial service customers build roadmaps for adopting Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI through his Design Thinking workshops. Sundt will assume responsibility for all technology and engineering operations at Stax.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. billion, against almost $2.8

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Software SaaS revenue streams are generally highly predictable and long dated (a 90% gross retention implies your customers stick with you for 10 years on average). And once a customer has paid back the initial acquisitions costs to acquire it, all future streams of revenue can loosely be described as a cash flow annuity.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As more workloads and data move to the cloud and generative AI takes over the enterprise , cybersecurity is more critical today than ever. And that’s because with every new paradigm shift—from the internet to cloud computing—the sheer magnitude of digital threats has exploded and threat vectors have become increasingly sophisticated.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

[03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? Ben: Going to generative AI, 1 of the things that’s been interesting for us as a VC, is we see all kinds of companies.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2024

An example of this strategy is SaaS companies adding new AI-powered features after the rise of generative AI. For example, Userpilot , a product adoption platform embedded an AI writing assistant so users can refine their in-app messages created within the platform in it. SAP’s acquisition announcement.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

We have some rapid acquisition authorities. But one of the concerns from those companies and from those investors is that it’s not being matched yet by acquisition dollars. So, it’s not that we don’t have money going into acquisition. Kathleen: I think we have to fundamentally reform defense acquisition.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Rating: 4.7 / 5 Where to buy: Amazon “EMPOWERED” emphasizes that the success of leading tech firms lies not just in talent acquisition, but in fostering collaborative environments where innovation thrives. EMPOWERED: Ordinary people, extraordinary products EMPOWERED: Ordinary people, extraordinary products.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Through numerous acquisitions (ExactTarget, Tableau, Slack, and more), Salesforce built an expansive ecosystem of cloud services. AI & ML Features Einstein AI offers lead scoring, opportunity insights, forecast predictions, and now Einstein GPT for generative AI (e.g.,

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Self-serve support: Zendesk goes beyond traditional knowledge bases to incorporate generative AI capabilities that let you save time. For example, instead of writing entire help articles, you could come up with a few bullet points and ask the AI to expand on them. Adobe dashboard. Criterion Does It Deliver?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

KPIs like customer acquisition cost , trial-to-paid conversion rate , customer engagement score , etc. This strategy reduces your customer acquisition cost as you optimize for trial-to-paid conversion. Some metrics to track include: Customer acquisition cost : The average amount your business spends to acquire one customer.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. But over the past 12 months, Open AI’s ChatGPT has gone mainstream, Twitter has become X, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, as did FTX, and WeWork… How many of these did you see coming? What will 2024 bring?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s not so easy to operate a business with hundreds and thousands of people in it when you’re trying to take the best of both companies, which was really generally our approach. By the way, that’s super important for acquisitions, but also super important for divestitures. So, I think that was super important.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Detailed lead data : Access detailed lead information so you can customize your customer acquisition strategy accordingly. You can quickly explore data with generative AI. It’s also possible to track how contacts, companies, and deals move through your funnels. Also, it suggests descriptions for each metric and dimension.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They’re on a hiring acquisition spree trying to get product people and designers right now so they can make great consumer products. The second path, “Will AI be doing the design? I think AI is doing something similar, or maybe even more powerful. ” Look at OpenAI. It turns out design matters.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 9, 2024

Offers top-notch content marketing strategies, link-building, and scalable link acquisition. Key Features Provide their services to companies from various industries like software, manufacturing, B2B brands, and generative AI companies. They help you track the key metrics like the SERPs, traffic, and leads generated.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Analyze key metrics such as customer acquisition cost (CAC) , customer lifetime value (CLV), and churn rate to optimize marketing strategies and drive customer retention. Garner’s webinar on the use of generative AI for product professionals : This webinar provides insights on boosting sales and adoption using GenAI cases.

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Unbounce

JULY 12, 2023

I have a number of news aggregators that come to me every day on AI, and I spend 30 to 40 minutes a day, and it’s hard to keep up. But some of the things that have recently caught my attention are that I listened to the Google Live show, and they’ve just announced their generative AI.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He served as Chairman and CEO of the company until its acquisition by Yahoo! He also served as chairman and CEO of the company until its acquisition by Yahoo in July of At Yahoo, he was responsible for the operations of global advertising marketplaces. It’s also, what do the generative AI engine say about my business?

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Content Monetization & AI Effect YouTube expands access to content monetization and adds a generative AI effect called Bloom in YouTube Shorts, transforming people into vibrant topiary structures. Impact : Could influence other tech magnates' approaches to platform acquisition and management.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

One of the things that we needed to get very clear on and this is like a little bit before the acquisition was you know, with a lot of API first, you know, platform first, developer first products they’re so flexible and it’s pretty amazing to see what your community can do with your product. Like with generative AI.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

What metrics are PE sponsors looking for in mid-market software acquisitions? How to navigate the PE acquisition process? A discussion of Andy Wilson ‘s successful exit at Logickull where Jason was an investor and I was an advisor What will be the impact of AI on SaaS budgets?

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Generate AI-powered posts based on what's working in your niche. Max Bidna, who goes by Marketing Max, reports on X that Lifetimely's Shopify charts "are second to none in terms of helping you understand the LTV from different customer segments and from different acquisition channels." All in all, Predis.ai

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

AI is turning SaaS from a reactive tool into a proactive business partner. (B) B) The Generative AI Boom: SaaS That Creates for You Unless youve been living under a rock, youve probably heard about ChatGPT, DALLE, and other AI content generators. Generative AI is now embedded into SaaS tools everywhere.

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