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A16Z: Enterprise AI Spending is Growing 75% a Year.

SaaStr

OpenAI maintains overall market leadership, but the breakdown is telling: 67% of OpenAI users deploy non-frontier models vs. only 41% for Google and 27% for Anthropic. You need rigorous evaluation frameworks, security checklists, benchmark performance data, and clear usage-based pricing models. The Price War : Google’s Gemini 2.5

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The Great IPO Awakening: What 2025’s Surprisingly Hot Market Means for B2B Companies

SaaStr

Revenue Quality Score What It Is : Percentage of revenue that’s recurring, predictable, and expanding The Benchmark : 85%+ should be recurring with 110%+ net retention Why It Matters : Public investors pay premiums for predictability. Reddit’s platform network effects created clear category leadership.

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5 Tips to Reduce the Enterprise Sales Cycle With TripActions’ GM: SaaStr Podcast 472 and Video

SaaStr

Enterprise clients expect a high level of security, compliance and legal protections as a given, so you should have things in place, like GDPR and certifications like SOC-2, PCI, etc. If you don’t have the proper security and legal benchmarks in place, you can drastically slow down your sales process. Pick Your Lane.

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How to Use Data as a Service (DaaS) Tools in Your Marketing Analysis

Neil Patel

Here are a few ways you can use this data to improve your marketing tactics : Benchmarking Reports. With simple, global access to organizational data, marketers can create benchmarking reports to gather data on financials, turnover, and leadership efforts and back everything up with percentile breakdowns.

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Top 10 Learnings about Free Trials with Tomasz Tunguz (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The first goal is to share with you benchmarks. We believe benchmarks are really useful to help you build your business, because they provide good goalposts for financial planning and for goal setting. Our second topic, benchmarks around retention. There are two goals of this analysis. Logo retention. Trial structure.

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How Much ‘Sales’ Should be in Product-Led Sales

Sales Hacker

More for your eyeballs: David Sacks published a great piece about the dark side of sales , outlining sales incentive problems and elements of the sales compliance regime. In this episode, you will learn about the evolution of AI and how companies can drive further value leveraging AI, along with insight to leadership development.

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B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. Selling into financial institutions (FIs) has long been the end goal for many software-oriented fintech businesses.

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