SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Land Secure Accelerate The revenue plays become the basis for enablement and PMM playbooks and the core of your product roadmap, how finance reports on the business, running MBRs and QBRs, and measuring pipeline. GitHub took all the GTM motions and conversations across the company and organized them through the lens of three revenue plays.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

Finance Cloud : Expense reimbursements, bill pay, corporate cards, and more. The company now has three distinct “clouds”: HR Cloud : Traditional HR and payroll functions. IT Cloud : Setting up employees in apps, device management, and IT systems.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

With decades of experience in payments, Matt provided invaluable insights on emerging trends, regulatory changes, and the future of Embedded Finance. Technological evolution : The foundations laid in recent years are expected to yield transformative advancements in Embedded Finance and platform regulation. Matt Downs Yeah.

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BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Shadow artificial intelligence (AI) apps Your employees are no doubt using public large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini, as well as chatbots, copilots and a host of other AI tools. Lets say your company is in the highly regulated finance industry. Then what happens?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2025

Her Internet Trends reports helped a generation of founders navigate shifts in consumer behavior, platforms, and growth models. Her latest release, Trends: Artificial Intelligence (2025) , is her first in 5 years! At Ramp, GTM, finance, and ops teams are stitched together with custom automations, not middle managers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

AI’s True Power in Finance : The biggest unlock of AI isn’t just automation, but its ability to reason over complex financial data, freeing finance teams from hundreds of hours reviewing ledger records. ” Learning from Failures Both leaders shared candid lessons from past failures. ” The biggest impact?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

With Databricks now one of the largest pre-IPO technology companies, with $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and a valuation of $62 billion, Ron’s insights are gold for any revenue leader looking to scale.

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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. As co-founder and CEO of Lottie , he has built a trusted platform that helps families easily navigate, find, and finance later-life care.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2025

Industry Trends Amplifying the Need for Compliance Several trends in the subscription economy are driving the urgency for regulatory readiness: Data-Driven Models: The integration of artificial intelligence and predictive analytics in subscription platforms requires robust data protection mechanisms to comply with privacy laws.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It specializes in creating personalized shopping experiences for customers by leveraging machine learning and AI technologies. In its early stages, Nosto operated on a performance-based pricing model, charging clients a commission on sales directly attributed to its product recommendations.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

In June 2025, Chinese startup DeepSeek grabbed headlines with an open-source “reasoning” LLM rivaling U.S. models – built cheaply but performing on par with GPT-4 on some tasks. firms, Chinese tech giants often publish models publicly to showcase capability.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Industry Trends Shaping Usage-Based Pricing Several trends in the subscription economy are accelerating the adoption of usage-based models: Personalization: Customers expect pricing and services tailored to their specific needs.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Deep integrations available for ERP, finance, etc. Enterprises and Complex Industries: Salesforce is generally favored in large enterprises or industries with very complex processes. AI is transforming how businesses use CRMs from intelligent lead routing to automated email content. Simpler but covers common use cases well.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

These marvels are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) giant AI systems trained on vast amounts of text. In todays AI-powered world, LLMs have become the brain behind many smart applications, from virtual assistants to content generators.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2025

Finance teams love the budgeting simplicity. Sales teams love the scalable revenue model. A look at current market pricing shows the industry’s commitment to this approach: Despite the economic challenges, virtually every major AI coding tool still leads with per-seat pricing because it works for most use cases.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2025

AI and machine learning models often require vast amounts of historical data for training, and leveraging third-party AI solutions can mean sending your customer data to an external environment. Use Machine Learning to Uncover True Health Drivers: Instead of starting with opinions, use AI as your starting point.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2025

Learning (The Scalable Part) Mix of self-directed exploration and expert-led sessions. Role-specific training for Finance, Engineering, Sales. It hasn’t led to the adoption across 5,000 employees the founders want. Plus a 2-day company-wide hackathon to build actual solutions. Will Reskilling Really Work?

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BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

Shadow AI, aka the unsanctioned artificial intelligence based applications that are in your tech stack, is often adopted by individual teams or employees for perceived productivity gains. Common key stakeholders include IT, finance, procurement, department heads, and security.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 25, 2025

Here are some popular options to consider: Linear regression Cohort analysis Time-series analysis Machine learning Top-down or Bottom-up forecasting Dig into your metrics to find the stories they’re telling. CS teams will thrive when they ensure strategy and tools are cross-functional with sales, finance, and product.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 18, 2025

GPTBot is OpenAI’s web crawler that collects publicly available data to help train and fine-tune its large language models (LLMs), like the one powering ChatGPT. That means it’s helping artificial intelligence (AI) learn from your blog posts, product pages, help docs, and more. But should you let it?

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) AI is set to play a significant role in the future of the subscription economy. As customer expectations shift and new technologies emerge, MSPs must be proactive in adopting innovations that improve their service delivery, streamline operations, and enhance customer experiences.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 8, 2025

With so many new features available on the platform, it makes sense that the Facebook algorithm — the ranking system that uses machine learning to arrange content in users’ feeds — has changed too. Instead of just text and photo posts, there are now disappearing stories, reels, live streams, and much more.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

Therefore, if I put it in an LLM, that LLM is going to believe it’s a better fit for me as well. You ask for, Hey, like, I want to see more case studies from large banks. Um, let’s say our AI recommended, uh, FinTech case studies, cause you’re Chase and it sort of puts everybody into finance.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These partnerships are prevalent across various industries, including retail, healthcare, finance, and logistics. AI and machine learning integration The rapid advancement of AI technologies is enabling ISVs to create smarter, more adaptive solutions. Here are a few key trends to watch and prepare for: 1.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Ray Smith: Yeah, I think it’s two years ago, it was definitely termed the moonshot project because the whole thesis was the future of AI is not going to be just this chatty interface or LLM that we’re going to interact with. Hey, this is now an agent because I sprinkle in some LLM uses or scenarios around it.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2025

AI, predictive analytics, and machine learning are helping apps feel more personal while taking some of the guesswork out of product decisions. In 2025, more companies are using artificial intelligence to improve product decisions and automate key parts of the user journey. Its also changing how teams build them.

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Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

A good example is Frank and Oak , a Canadian apparel brand that offers a membership model to customers where the company ships five items monthly to each subscriber. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) services BNPL is a payment method where your customer uses a short-term financing service to pay for your product or service.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2025

Ensuring every enterprise team, from creatives to finance , can leverage AI effectively. Google Clouds approach to agentic AI (AI-powered assistants for different roles) is helping companies automate tasks, improve decision-making, and supercharge human productivity. The next step?

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

We can expect the company to start trading on the public markets next Wednesday Subscribe now OneStream Overview From the S1 - “OneStream delivers a unified, AI-enabled and extensible software platform—the Digital Finance Cloud—that modernizes and increases the strategic impact of the Office of the CFO.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Divvy is a seamless expense management software combined with the world’s smartest business card giving your company total control of finances. UruIT’s Free Machine Learning Consultation. Click here for Divvy’s Seamless Expense Management Platform for Businesses. What are they all about?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

With all of these pain points and lost opportunities, it’s no surprise that nearly half (48%) of respondents say they are investing in new or improved customer engagement technologies – such as customer relationship management (CRM), artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data analytics in the next 18 months.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. As startups incorporate generative machine learning into their products or develop new products, understanding the competitive dynamic with incumbents will be more important than before.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2024

The LLM can generate a more complete description by putting it into a system with GenAI. Traditional and GenAI: Financial Forecasting Finance departments may use planning and budgeting software, often AI-powered with traditional AI. These tools are here now and can provide value to any finance organization.

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are apparently eager to invest in technology to help attract — and keep — finance talent and workers with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) skills, according to a new survey. To read this article in full, please click here

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

You can decrease overall costs while improving efficiency and machine learning processes with the right platform on your side. Data labeling is the process of analyzing raw data and labeling it to provide context to machine learning software, algorithms, and end-users. How Does Data Labeling Work?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Currently, there are 3 primary options available to implement AI in a company: Cloud or LLM providers: Large cloud providers, like AWS, Google, or Microsoft, all provide services to implement generative AI in a secure way in the cloud. They typically specialize in a specific business function or area.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Salesforce for Sales, Workday for HR & Finance, ServiceNow for Operations, Atlassian for Engineering and so on. Salesforce was founded in 1999. This sea of SaaS startups have reshaped the market.

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