Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Google led to search-engine optimization, which startups like Expedia & Zillow grew to become public companies. Salesforce catalyzed cloud-delivery & annual subscription model in the enterprise, upending decades of selling software with perpetual licenses. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2024

Will AI sofware companies operate with better or worse profitability than a classic SaaS company? Initially, I thought worse since the expense of serving AI as a product is signficantly higher. AI SaaS may be much more profitable than the -10% average net income margins of the current crop of public businesses. Deflationary.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

So at SaaStr Annual, Dave Kellogg did a great deep dive on “5 Things Every B2B CEO Needs to Know about Marketing” In the Age of AI it’s even more true today, so I wanted to update our SaaStr take-aways from the deep dive. These “five-five” CMOs barely exist. Better to hire for your specific needs and stage.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 CEO Godard Abel deep dives into his original vision for G2, going multi-product, selling with multiple sales teams, demand gen spend, and why AI is the most important thing right now. The original vision for G2 was to be the Yelp of software. The world needed a buffet of software, and G2 was that buffet,” Abel shares.

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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. At this point, ChatGPT was a consumer app and an API, which is how software companies and Enterprises could build tools on top of the models.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Being responsible for the design of AI services used by millions of people is a huge responsibility, and Arin is deeply aware of that. According to him, good design doesn’t need to sacrifice transparency, and imperceptible AI isn’t ethical AI. For Arin, explainability is a key element when it comes to ethical AI.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

So 40% of our content at SaaStr Europa was on AI this year, and probably 33% of SaaStr Annual last year. But it’s time for a full-fledged SaaStr AI Summit this year inside of SaaStr Annual. You can join us just for AI Summit or all of Annual. Just a few of the sessions coming: #1. ” #2. ” #2. ” #4.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI search has become an invaluable tool for finding information quickly and efficiently. At FastSpring, we aim to continually enhance our AI search capabilities, ensuring you receive accurate and relevant answers. ” For “Why is my invoice not showing up?,”

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Buffer Resources

JULY 24, 2024

Put simply, social media automation is outsourcing the repetitive, manual, and sometimes boring tasks in your to-do list to software. Adding software into the mix doesn’t just reduce your overhead; it also helps you maintain your social media presence without burning out. And isn’t that the dream?

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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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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? AI Assisted Development How can we use AI to speed up our SLDC? How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster? Search Does the application include search?

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

Accel Partner Philipe Botteri and Synthesia’s co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli deep dive into the lessons learned about building an Enterprise-focused Generative AI company and scaling it. They began with AI dubbing, dubbing real video into different languages and changing the lip synchronization and voice-over.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. GenAI-based software can and already is helping to bridge this gap.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

There are more ways than ever before to leverage digital AI for marketing funnel optimization, including responsive ads. With responsive search ads, you can use Google’s high-quality algorithms to create excellent ads that change over time to bring you the best results. What Are Responsive Search Ads?

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

Let’s start with a sales-led motion, which is traditionally how B2B software has been sold. What PLG Signals Can Sales Use to Sell Software? AI can create churn drivers, and that data can be useful for customer success or for sales teams to have proactive conversations with customers. Leverage AI to assist sales.

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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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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 30, 2020

But AI SEO may be changing the way marketers help their sites rank high on search engine results pages (SERPs). Failure to rank may result in your business missing out on valuable search traffic. With artificial intelligence (AI) taking over the world, you need to up your game. What is AI? What’s the point of AI?

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

So I started a list : what are the ways I use AI that are new in the last year? Or correct the grammar in a sentence or execute a quick search on a topic or summarize an email or format a list. AI is driving a broader behavior change : summarize, then determine whether to invest the effort to read.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It’s possible to do this task manually — especially if you’re on a tight budget and don’t need all those fancy software. No one wants yet another onboarding session to learn because the software is too complicated to learn on your own. Includes 5 searches per month. Does this tool feel easy to use?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2024

” After publishing The Four Barriers to AI Adoption , Dave Morse , a reader & a friend who was most recently CRO at Hebbia & VP Sales at Scale AI sent me this email. Dave continued : “ The biggest blocker to adoption at AI application companies is user education and limitations of frontier models.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Couple takeaways for me: 2024 is shaping up to be the “prototype to production” year for AI. When it comes to vector search / support, they will make that available in all of their databases Customizations are coming.

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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. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

Mistake #5: Not Properly Jumping on the AI Bandwagon AI hasn’t changed every B2B and SaaS space in 60 seconds. But you will lose the deal if you’re not at feature parity in AI with your competition. Building raw new events is somewhere between a high-intent Google search and randomly discovering someone on a piece of content.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. More on what’s behind the spike in AI companionship below.)

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SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2022

Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. The software runs within the customer’s cloud account and is accessed via portal, Terraform or API. to unlock growth.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 30, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Data + Compute = AI Two of the largest data companies in the world, Snowflake and Databricks, held their annual conferences this week. To truly take advantage of AI, enterprises need organized data in the cloud.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 28, 2024

💡 Learn more : 13 Ways to Get More Followers on Instagram in 2024 How to get your first 1,000 followers on TikTok How often should you post : 1–4 posts/day What type of posts get the most engagement : Video The TikTok algorithm works like a search engine at this point. People go to it to search for specific queries.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Common features of customer success tools Each customer success team always requires some nonnegotiables in any new software. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

How many software review sites are you present at? Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. And you know why people are subscribing to your software.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2020

AI for sales is nothing new. But what are the real benefits of AI? And while the scope of AI’s impact may still be limited to certain types of activities, the power and scope of AI will continue to grow. In this article, we discuss the state of AI in 2020, especially for enterprise sales. The benefits of AI.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

An applicant tracking software , also known as ATS software, can help businesses reach a wider pool of qualified applicants as well as manage data from various sources – all at a single platform. This software is used by departments and hiring managers to carry out internal hiring. ATS Software Type.

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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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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. And it was all manual.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Enter employee scheduling software. Which employee scheduling software is the best? The Top 6 Options For Employee Scheduling Software. Keep the following elements in mind to help narrow your search: Number of Employees. Keep the following elements in mind to help narrow your search: Number of Employees.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Video conferencing software has exploded in popularity over the last year. But not all video conferencing software is the same. Which video conferencing software is the best for you? The Top 6 Options For Video Conferencing Software. However, some software is definitely better than others in this category.

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