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SaaS Is Still Slowing Down, Unfortunately: What Q1 2025 Numbers Reveal About the Cloud Software Market

SaaStr

Instead, we’re seeing a market characterized by extreme boom-bust cycles that make planning and forecasting incredibly challenging. Many B2B and SaaS leaders continue to rely on price increases and upsells for more and more of their growth. Sales teams need to adjust forecasting models and pipeline management accordingly.

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The Future of B2B SaaS Investing with G2, Accel, Salesforce, Inspired Capital and SaaStr

SaaStr

The deep dive here: And G2’s summary here: In a deeply insightful G2 Reach panel, SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin moderated an engaging discussion on the current B2B SaaS investing landscape and what we can expect in the years ahead. Deals aren’t any better or easier to get done, but some optimism is back.

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The 40% Problem: Do Your Sales Reps Really Cover All Their Accounts? And Is AI The Answer? With Yamini Rangan, CEO HubSpot

SaaStr

The 40% Problem: How AI Will Finally Fix Sales Coverage and Customer Face Time A wake-up call from HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on why your sales team is failing 60% of their accountsand how AI will change everything There’s a brutal truth about B2B sales that most founders refuse to acknowledge. The result?

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4 Things Most Founders Get Wrong About Marketing with Dave Kellogg

SaaStr

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. You founded a product company, but you’re running a distribution business.

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Eyes on the future – How to predict your revenue with sales forecasting

Intercom, Inc.

But with rigorous sales forecasting, they can actually get pretty close. But forecasting isn’t as easy as asking your sales reps to give you a number. An accurate, actionable sales forecast requires a lot of work, cooperation from all parts of your sales team and visibility into your sales pipeline. What is a sales forecast?

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What is Sales Forecasting? Why it Matters + 11 Tools to Consider

Sales Hacker

After spending many quarters creating sales forecasts, you should have the process down and deliver precision accuracy. Unfortunately, sales forecasting is not that straightforward. In fact, 60% of forecasted deals don’t close, leading to uncomfortable conversations about budgets and with investors. What is sales forecasting?

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Thanks to Drata, OnBoard, Qwilr, RevSure, and Workato for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Qwilr is the tool of choice for scaling B2B sales teams. B2B companies are struggling with driving predictable growth, a combination of pipeline generation and pipeline conversion. While there are revenue intelligence tools for pipeline conversion and sales forecasting, intelligence for pipeline generation has been an afterthought.

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