SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

SaaStr 684: A Deep Dive Into G2, The Power Of AI, Going Multi-Product, And The 2023 Ecosystem  4. LIVE from SaaStr Annual 2023 Stage A Masters: What The Top Founders Do Better to Scale Even Now with Y Combinator’s Managing Director Michael Siebel 3. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

As the kickoff to our first fully digital SaaStr AI Day, Jennifer Tejada , the CEO of PagerDuty, chatted with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, about navigating the shift to Generative AI and what Artificial Intelligence in SaaS might look like in the next 6 months, as well as years to come. How to Buck Up and Go Long in SaaS?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’re on the brink of one of the biggest technological advancements of our lifetime — AI. At this year’s SaaStr Annual, Mark Roberge, co-founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital, takes the stage to have a bake-off between startups and incumbents when it comes to who will win the AI Go-to-Market race.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x At SaaStr Annual , IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes. How to scale AI across your business.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Official Guide to SaaStr Annual 2023 Parties and Side Events!! SaaStr 684: A Deep Dive Into G2, The Power Of AI, Going Multi-Product, And The 2023 Ecosystem     3. Tons of Great New Things at 2023 SaaStr Annual!

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 9, 2024

  Enter: these AI productivity tools, all of which help me streamline, automate, and optimize as much as possible.   Of course, productivity tools are nothing new — but with the addition of artificial intelligence, they’ve become even more powerful. These are the ones I keep coming back to. 

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Prior to Webflow, Rachel served as Vice President and General Manager of Dropbox’s Core Business, where she helped Dropbox go multi-product and built products for over 700 million users worldwide across 220 countries. During her tenure she also led Dropbox’s AI strategy, including the acquisition of search startup Command E.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day , Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Is the Employer-Employee Social Contract in Tech … Now Broken? Your Marketing Site Really Should Be Even Better Than Your Product Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need To Sell In Each Venture Round?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: How Is AI Impacting The SaaS Landscape with a16z GP Kristina Shen Salesforce, Samsara, Monday and More: “Layoffs are Over. ” Does Your VP of Sales Need to be An Expert In Your Product? We’re Back to Hiring.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

Will LPs allocate to new venture managers? There will be less direct competitor buys and more ancillary product buys. They will continue to commit to new managers. Those managers will deploy. Will AI Change the Game for Enterprise Software? CFOs do not have an AI line on their budget.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

People have said “AI” more this year than any other year combined. Everyone is looking forward to what AI can do for them in business. PST, the CIO and SVP of IT at Freshworks, Prasad Ramakrishnan, shares five ways organizations can leverage AI to solve problems and grow. But this AI wave is slightly different.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Enterprise software–at all stages and check sizes–with a focus on SaaS, Security, Infrastructure and, of course, with an integrated AI strategy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

We had a great one last week with Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. This week we’re focusing on Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital! #1. The big winners in AI have likely not been started yet. #5. Mark received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin also wrote how Customer Success has now morphed into part of the sales team and that the 2024 trends in CS include everyone wanting to eliminate humans from support to replace that headcount with AI and bots. Just fewer customers got coverage or CSMs got a bigger book of business to manage.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Replayz.io – It autoscores sales calls according to our specific call frameworks with AI. This allows sales reps to get instant feedback and gives our frontline managers a tremendous amount of coaching scale. Maybe the shift to the data warehouse as the source of truth (Snowflake for us) and AI change my opinion here though. #4.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

Searching for blogs in the arena is getting accessible slowly and it’s time you leverage the essential knowledge these blogs have to offer, to flourish! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Suggested blog : Account Expansion: If You Want To Grow Fast, Do This….

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. How did they get here?

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Many net-new purchases are for data security, compliance, risk management, and AI-powered tools. AI-Powered Tools: AI-related purchases in Q1: Made up 41% of new investments in Q1. Oates explains, “Companies are recognizing the need to incorporate AI into their operations to gain efficiencies.” Why is this?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

“He was doing a freemium product and I was like ‘Why don’t you just walk into an Adobe or a Cisco and just close a six-figure deal? . “I was just catching up with a second-time founder who had taken his company public (and it was worth billions) and was doing another company,” Jason shared.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 15, 2024

Will you be prepared for the SaaS AI revolution? More than 70% of SaaS companies are increasing their spending on AI, according to studies. Therefore, it’s not a matter of whether AI will revolutionize your sector; rather, it’s a matter of how you’ll use AI to reinforce your own SaaS product.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Their product increases enrollment and utilization while reducing employee costs and providing a substantially better experience. #2. Canvas Ventures manages $835 million in AUM, currently investing out of our third, $350 million fund. Generative AI is spawning new companies and accelerating existing ones.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

We had a great one last time with Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital. Our most recent disclosed investment is in Pika.art, a company redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience utilizing AI. It’s the best distribution that wins, not the best product. #4. Check that out here.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2024

I think it did a pretty good job The summaries we do might be better, but this is a great place to start.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Each blog post in our series has delved into critical aspects of agile monetization, from technological advancements and regulatory considerations to strategic planning and implementation best practices. Read More » Charting the Future: What Are the Emerging Trends in Subscription Billing and Monetization?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2022

Top Blog Posts This Week: You’ll Know if That New VP is Going to Fail at the First Board Meeting. What’s Changed in Product-led Growth with Calendly CMO Patrick Moran. Driving Peak Performance through Reimagined Management with Hootsuite CRO Melissa Murray Bailey. And 3 Flags Almost Everyone Misses.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. The easy answer here these days would be to say, efficient growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2023

Is it all about AI? From $5M to $100M: Founder Secrets to Scaling a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice’s CEO Jack Altman, co-founder and CEO of Lattice shares the secrets to scaling doing multi-product. Who Will Win the Go-to-Market AI Race — Startups or Incumbents? Are we done cutting? What about 1,000+ unicorns?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Sales-assisted, product-led growth strategies that close Enterprise leads. How to use community as a driver of product-led growth. For example, if someone in their TAM is hiring for a CX lead, this is a signal for Gorgias to help them figure out a CX motion since their product is a help desk for e-commerce. No humans involved.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 CEO Godard Abel deep dives into his original vision for G2, going multi-product, selling with multiple sales teams, demand gen spend, and why AI is the most important thing right now. How do I discover the SaaS products I need? They’ve been in the game for a while, so the product works. How do I trust them?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. Before conducting the survey this year, the expectation was that the napkin could look like this… “If you’re in AI, we’d give you money at any valuation.

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Totango

APRIL 9, 2024

This signifies that fostering an exceptional partnership between CS and sales teams — vital for long-term revenue growth, begins with understanding which customers can derive the highest value from your products and services over time. Madelyn shared how Aircall is leveraging digital customer success to garner deeper product insights.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI. Sign up for free.

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Totango

JANUARY 3, 2024

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves Totango is customer success software businesses can’t outgrow, providing unlimited scalability and unmatched time to value to help cross-functional enterprise teams drive productivity , retention , and expansion.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

In this article, we discuss Pendo’s use cases, main features, pricing, limitations, and how it can help your product grow. TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Pendo Feedback is a module for collecting and managing customer requests. Pendo polls.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Making it simple to implement, Ramya Periyagaram Chandrasekaran, Co-Founder at Datalligence AI Private Limited Why Is NRR the Most Important Growth Metric? with Yamini Jain, Co-founder at Global roots inc How to manage a SAAS startup effectively?

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