SaaStr

MAY 19, 2025

Has growth slowed while new AI entrants in your space are growting at epic rates? But … but … it’s too late to refound your start-up in the Age of AI. VCs especially are obsessed with AI-native startups. New pitch decks without an AI strategy aren’t even making it past associates. We are early.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Its all flowing into AI and Growth, but its back. Yes, its often AI fueled SaaS leaders. Why cant you be the new leader in legal, in accounting, in devops, in search, in support, in whatever? #3. AI has created 100s and even 1000s of new competitors in many categories. Venture Capital is Back. HyperGrowth is Back.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2025

SaaStr Annual + AI Summit 2025 is just around the corner , taking place at the San Mateo County Event Center from May 13-15, 2025. Thursday, May 15th promises to be action-packed, starting with an AI and Sales Kickoff at 9:00 am, followed by sessions with Anthropic and Cursor, and a Founder/VC Brunch.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2024

In the last few years, since the release of Attention is All You Need Paper , AI has boomed. OpenAI categorizes levels of AI similarly to self-driving cars. What if that little orange elbow is the beginning of reasoning in AI? AI is characterized by waves of innovation & sudden change, a tecnological punctuated equilibrium.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 7, 2025

The right AI marketing tools will help you automate repetitive tasks, make data-driven decisions, and unblock your creativity. They ultimately let us get back to the work we find more meaningful, like strategy, creativity, innovation, and relationship-building. The shift to AI-powered marketing has been dramatic.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Google’s earnings call identified some major changes and unexpected outcomes, including the performance of AI Ads, the importance of hardware compared to algorithmic efficiency gains, and the groundswell of developer adoption for Gemini models. The new modalities for engaging with computers will be the main theme of AI in 2025.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. It was exciting then, even though it’s old hat now — an extraordinary leap forward in innovation when released. How did they get here?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Great companies transform a technology innovation into a go-to-market advantage. Google led to search-engine optimization, which startups like Expedia & Zillow grew to become public companies. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups? AI enables ABM-at-scale.

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Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2025

By BluLogix Team AI Billing Innovations, Usage-Based Pricing, Credits, and Prepaid Models AI Billing Needs a New Approach Unlike traditional SaaS, AI products often require real-time metering and consumption-based pricing. Prepaid Billing AI companies are shifting from post-consumption billing to prepaid models.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

In 2023, we saw a surge of SaaS brands adding anything AI-powered or AI-driven into their website headlines. The optics were that if AI wasnt integral to your roadmap and marketing, you were losing relevance. Many venture capital firms shifted their investments almost entirely into AI startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

took over the company in 1952 and decided to make his mark through modern design, they’ve become the single largest design organization in the world, with over 1500 designers working in innovative products from machine learning to cloud to file sharing. For Arin, explainability is a key element when it comes to ethical AI.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

So is AI taking over everything? Across the SaaStr Fund portfolio, I’ve seen multiple portfolio companies lost $1m customers to new, in-house AI initiatives. But I’ve also seen others grow even faster as AI rebooted and enhanced their products. Software, innovation and time marches on. I mean … maybe.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Search is like the front door to your website. As the most effective way to reach your audience, search is critical to your digital marketing strategy and each customer journey. Your customers are only a search query away, thanks to search engines like Google. The evolution of search has a long history.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In the last two years, M&A has totaled about $49b & it surges to above $60b driven by AI acquisitions. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs. Score : 0.5.

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. AI is addressing these inefficiencies, transforming billing into a data-driven, automated, and predictive process.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

Generative AI has exploded by 2025. A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Video-focused AIs such as Runway, Synthesia, and Google’s new Veo/Flow produce high-quality clips from prompts. AI is reshaping how we create content and engage users.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you aren’t willing to embrace AI digital assistants as a marketer, you’re going to have a tough time competing with everyone else. Just like Alexa brings you the best jams on-demand and Siri helps you find the nearest Starbucks, AI digital assistants can help you become a better marketer. What Are AI Digital Assistants?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

And in search, where a single moment’s hesitation can set you back months, you need to be proactive—not responsive. With that in mind, here’s a look back at some big trends that made 2022 a wild year in search and the things that will make huge waves in 2023. What Search Engine Trends Shaped 2022? It happens.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. So, instead, you had to search for the specific skills you needed for the role. Maintain a small company mindset to foster ongoing innovation and growth. Computers disrupted all of that and changed the way people worked.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 13, 2025

The rise of AI in content creation (and all the challenges that come with it) Predictions : Platforms will continue making big bets on artificial intelligence (AI profiles on Instagram, anyone?), In the same vein, Matt predicts that brands will face challenges with AI in 2025.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

One of the strategy changes is to say, “Hey if we turn up the innovation and actual product quality, can we ultimately get around having to spend all this money on advertising?” How good are you as an organization at planning, innovating, and thinking about business processes and then implementing them in your business?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. David George: Sure.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the UKs tech startup ecosystem continues to thrive, visionary founders are driving innovation across various industries, shaping the future of technology , finance , healthcare , and beyond. Rishi Khosla Rishi Khosla is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor, and is truly dedicated to innovation.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GTM 120: Avoid the AI Sales Skills Atrophy Trap with Peter Kazanjy Pete Kazanjy is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. Previously, he founded TalentBin, a talent search engine and recruiting CRM that was acquired by Monster Worldwide in 2014.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

AI has been quite overhyped in the past. It feels like the AI hype machine is once again in overdrive. There’s so much investment into this area of AI and machine learning across companies, so it’s difficult to unpack exactly what’s happening. We’re starting to see a change in stuff as simple as search.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Terms like Large Language Model (LLM) and AI tool often get tossed around interchangeably, but they arent the same thing. Because choosing between leveraging a raw LLM versus an AI-powered tool can mean the difference between a groundbreaking feature and a misguided project. In this article, well explore LLMs vs AI tools in depth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2018

Moreover, when new innovations are developed for the customer support industry, they are often framed as a way to cut costs rather than offering better service. A new breed of innovative businesses, like Monzo, is going the other way. Search and self-service is how people expect to find things. 1 obstacle for these executives.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides visual search and image recognition solutions based on AI. Notey Labs.

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IT World

MARCH 22, 2023

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened the door to endless opportunities across hundreds of industries, but privacy continues to be huge concern. The use of data to inform AI tools can unintentionally reveal sensitive and personal information. But the technology is far from fully vetted.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ogilvy's Creative Director, David Raichman, called AI “ a force multiplier for creative expression,” and I couldn’t agree more. It is at these times AI steps in, rescuing me from the creative rut. AI content creation tools can help you here, especially when saving time in social media post creation.

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Blulogix

JUNE 17, 2025

But as customer expectations shift and pricing innovation becomes a differentiator, usage-based billing is quickly becoming the new normal. It’s now a core capability that supports pricing flexibility, product innovation, and financial integrity.” The problem? For SaaS companies, this is particularly relevant.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a cutting-edge approach in AI that combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time information retrieval to produce more accurate and context-aware outputs. Industry leaders have quickly embraced RAG as a way to build more intelligent AI applications. and real SaaS examples using RAG.

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Unbounce

JUNE 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we live. From virtual assistants to self-driving cars, AI-powered technology is transforming us into a more efficient species by automating mundane tasks, providing personalized recommendations, and helping us make informed decisions. AI is coming to search.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By 2025, the landscape will be more competitive, innovative, and complex than ever before. Industry Consolidation: Mergers and acquisitions are creating larger players with comprehensive offerings, raising the stakes for differentiation and innovation.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Feeling that AI FOMO? Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Adopting usage-based models isnt just about offering more choice; its about positioning your business to thrive in a market that prizes innovation, scalability, and customer-centricity. To stay competitive, companies must adopt tools and strategies that allow them to innovate with precision and confidence.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

The possibilities to automate and streamline processes for support reps seem endless, but the success of generative AI in this space will ultimately depend on its ability to deliver real value for customer service teams and customers alike. ☞ Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom.

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