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Ask Yourself for 2025: Does Your App Still Matter?

SaaStr

I do think so, but it’s been 12 years of blogging and 10+ year of events and more. All I had to do was write one blog post a day and one Quora answer, and magic happened. Does SaaStr still matter? So you gotta ask yourself that question as the year winds down. Do you still matter? Does your app still matter? What about SaaStr?

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5 Common Pieces of SaaS Advice … That Are Often Wrong

SaaStr

Here’s a subtle but very important mistake so many VCs, blogs, social media, etc. Sometimes, the market just isn’t big enough for Product #1 alone to get you to $100m+ ARR growing at a decent clip. Your customer acquisition costs need to be low — in all segments of the market.

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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

SaaStr

Their blog, academy courses, and certification programs have made them a trusted authority with over 500,000 certifications awarded to professionals in 2024. Each module connects to the same Smart CRM database, creating a seamless ecosystem powered by AI.

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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

SaaStr

Marketing leaders face crushing expectations from all sides: Management wants leads Sales needs collateral Product needs launches The team wants career growth The instinct is to spread your resources across everything: blogging, analyst relations, PR, events, SEO, paid search, content marketing, and more.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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How The Top 25 B2B Public Companies Have Performed In 2025 So Far — And What They Tell Us About the Future

SaaStr

AI-native companies are getting premium valuations. AI-features companies are getting commoditized. The Government AI Arms Race Every government agency suddenly has unlimited AI budgets.

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83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet

SaaStr

So clearly AI is rapidly changing the way we do sales, but how will it all shake out? Over in the contact center and post-sales space, we can already see 20%+ of customer support execs been routinely replaced by AI. But what about the more personal sales side?

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What is Data Storytelling? The Value of Context and Narrative

This blog acts as a beginner’s guide to what data storytelling means for your company’s business intelligence and data analytics, explains the importance of leveraging it today, and illustrates how Yellowfin’s own set of storytelling tools can enrich your insight reporting efforts.