Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Does the acceleration in AI make your SaaS company more or less defensible? Sometimes, an AI feature is just another brick in the wall (but one that improves your product) Last week, I looked into the question if AI is a platform shift as disruptive as the move from on-premise to the Cloud.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. As CTO of Clearent by Xplor, he helped grow its transaction processing from $2 billion to over $20 billion annually. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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.

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IT World

MARCH 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI today revealed the latest version of its computer program for natural language processing that powers ChatGPT , the wildly hyped chatbot with a fast-growing user base. To read this article in full, please click here

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

I’ve been trying to write a comprehensive, buttoned-up “AI Update,” covering all this month’s AI developments. But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.”

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Making it simple to implement, Ramya Periyagaram Chandrasekaran, Co-Founder at Datalligence AI Private Limited Why Is NRR the Most Important Growth Metric?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

An AI co-pilot to an existing product? ” If that works for your new product, sell it with your existing team. Time and time again, I see an exciting new product sort of stall out at launch when the buyer is a different ICP. The classic in the restaurant industry is guacamole at mexican restaurants.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. I’m here to report that AI ack made a big contribution to getting me unstuck, moving, and launched, with what feels like enough quality to be credible. Time will tell. With words! Could an art model produce an acceptably good logo?

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Crafty CTO

JULY 26, 2023

OpenAI was one of many who attempted to build an AI tool to detect whether a given document was AI generated.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

John Gruber chimed in shortly after with a nice follow up, “ Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech ,” that calls out further commentary by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.) Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Returning to today’s AI stories and our attitudes towards them.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features. Without a product that provides unique value to customers, nothing else matters.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. We all know this, but we forget about it, especially when the Hot New Deal and the sales team’s wants and needs consumes all of management’s resources. ” — Ankit Sindhi, Founder, Spurt.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. In those moments, I would always go back to my desk and start looking for a new job, it’s completely demoralizing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI?

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. But, one day soon, you’ll marvel at all the things AI sneakily helped pull off your plate. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens. AI researchers typically take this one step further, though.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Knowing that CFO transformation is one of my favorite subjects (having run a planning company for six years) the folks at Sage invited me to moderate a set of panels at their San Francisco and New York media events this week. Sage CTO Aaron Harris even helped out with a few questions after giving his presentation that helped tee-up the panel.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 26, 2023

I’ve loved a lot of New Microsoft (GitHub, VS Code) and since I’m on macOS + Linux, and have avoided installing Microsoft apps, hadn’t been exposed to that side of the company for years.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI?

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Kandy Yeung.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

Why Larry is Successful: Founder and former CTO of WordStream, Larry has tenured experience in the digital realm. Why You Should Follow Larry: Follow Larry for easily accessible graphics that share information on everything from Twitter design tips for more engagement to tools for AI-based copywriting. Handle: @kim_larry. Jasmine Star.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. What if we can use AI to deliver personal and relevant content tailored to an individual?” Speechless.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. And whether they want to know more about security or scalability or automation or AI, the customers are really demanding that the vendors are coming to market with answers to these questions.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

It felt like the rate of change in the generative AI space is picking up yet again this week. Another innovation explosion appears to be underway; already Llama 2 derived models are near the top of the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard , and new Llama stories are still on the first page of Hacker News.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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Crafty CTO

JULY 14, 2023

It actually made some progress at this, and clearly the ability to feed it files as input opens up a huge range of new applications. I actually got linked to German language content for one of the documents briefly, and after a bit CI stabilized around linked my supposed uploads to four ML / AI research space documents.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Categories include CRM, group chat and security systems whereas trends include AI, cloud and Blockchain.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 5, 2023

New Mac Pro: I was very amused when, as Apple talked about this beast having 7 PCIe slots and mentioned what you’d use them for, they skipped one little item … GPUs. “Let’s ignore generative AI and it’ll go away.”" Very off brand.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

As the numbers of tech-based companies grow in number, there is a crucial point to note – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is also growing. They are looking at AI to handle certain operations within the organization. For most of these companies, AI is a part of their core. And it is where the discussion started.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

I’ve mentioned that generative AI tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney allow me to be more ambitious with my projects than I would otherwise have been. Plugging the LinkedIn and Mastodon POSSE Leaks From now on, any significant small idea gets done first on Crafty’s Illustrated as micro content using these new microformats.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. “AI is fancy statistics. But the reality is that all AI is fancy statistics.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OpenAI is constantly firehosing us with new capabilities. I dug in and by New Years day had cloud sync operating, with multiple photo support following soon after. It’s tough to keep up with the announcements alone. Furthermore, directly publishing my ingested recipes to my cloud login saves the manual import step.

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