SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? So we asked the expert, Sandhya Hegde, General Partner at Unusual Ventures to share her best practices and trends for pricing and packaging AI products. Usage is volatile.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2022, we were in free fall, with public market caps falling like a knife, and the IPO markets frozen. In 2022, we were in free fall, with public market caps falling like a knife, and the IPO markets frozen. The Chase for AI Unicorns and Decacorns is All-consuming. In AI, 2021 never went away.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There is an “AI Innovation Pause” in B2B SaaS AI overall is one of the greatest forces of nature we’ve seen in technology and software. It’s not clear there are a ton of great ideas on what to do with AI APIs that aren’t already being tried out. To scale up sales, and get back to marketing again.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Let’s look at some examples. To get the most efficiencies out of their marketing team and resources, Gorgias puts a big emphasis on using only high-quality data that they audit regularly. In this playbook we’ll share: Automated outbound at-scale strategies. How to use community as a driver of product-led growth.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Over 80% of investor money is in AI. Why is that? Why is that?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In part one of this week’s Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin, he answered the community’s questions about whether all anyone cares about is AI anymore, investor appetites going into 2024, vertical SaaS, and thriving as a solo founder. Now, everyone wants AI to do it. The market wants it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The landscape of customer success has been evolving rapidly. So much so that we seem to be releasing new content on customer success just about every week. Today we’re focusing on actionable insights you can use to drive down churn with customer success in today’s new era of SaaS efficiency.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Right now, 42% of the market runs on WordPress. So with that, let’s dive into what’s new at WordPress: Is Blogging on the Decline? Matt shares that blogging did decline for a while, and it does seem to be all over social how folks are quitting blogging or vlogging these days.

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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.   Enter: these AI productivity tools, all of which help me streamline, automate, and optimize as much as possible. Buffer Use AI to brainstorm, write, and repurpose social media posts.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The real conflict is around trying to serve both sets of messaging and marketing at the same time since how you market to SMBs is very different than Enterprise customers. So, that’s where the battle happens of going to market for Enterprise customers without neglecting SMBs. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo?

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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.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 15, 2024

Will you be prepared for the SaaS AI revolution? Companies providing software as a service are under intense pressure to innovate since the global market for cloud services is projected to reach about $680 billion in 2024. More than 70% of SaaS companies are increasing their spending on AI, according to studies.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For some context on the company, Weights & Biases is an AI developer platform to help train and deploy all Machine Learning models. A good example of this is Github. That’s Weights & Balances’ North Star in this market. You want blog posts that are interactive and valuable to people.

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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. If that matches who you are as a customer and you fit that slice or segment of the market, that’s very valuable. Let’s look at an example.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Topics include: AI for sales. What, you didn’t have time to watch that webinar replay in between reading those two articles you’ve had open in a tab for three days?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Adobe has been developing with AI in its tools for almost a decade. Creativity In The Enterprise: When you look at the impact of generative AI and realize workflow is getting reduced and, in some cases, eliminated, what does that mean for peoples’ careers? We live in a world where every brand is only as relevant as its latest content.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. This article includes their advice for any B2B brand looking to get real results from content marketing , plus nine must-haves for B2B content to be considered good.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

On the chart below, you’ll see obvious examples like Shopify, Twilio, and Slack. MarTech stack and budget (always be on the lookout for cutting-edge platforms) A growth mindset Scalable, Low CAC Growth Strategies “One example that works well for sales-led SaaS businesses is outbound,” says Cabane. How Fast Is “Hyper-Growth?”

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Google’s ad showed an incorrect description of the telescope used to take the first pictures of a planet outside our solar system, for example. But first, let’s go over what these AI tools really mean for marketers. For example, one of my co-workers, Caio Beleza created a song using my name.

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Panintelligence

APRIL 3, 2024

Fueled by the need to stay competitive, there seems to be a rush to implement AI. For example, if you’re looking for enhanced Business Intelligence, you need to combine AI with human intuition. AI implementation: why now? So, what should businesses do to operationalize AI? What do you want AI to help you achieve?

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s been much ado about AI lately, especially since ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022. Since then, we’ve seen an influx of thoughts and tools around the topic and the use of AI. Spending time with the different tools powered by AI has allowed us to define our boundaries better.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Together with Abhay Parasnis, founder and CEO of Typeface, they chat about what it looks like to be a builder at the forefront of Generative AI. In our Gen AI Era ✨ Lightspeed breaks down this major technological shift in the Enterprise into three buckets: Foundation Model Enablement Application Vertical SaaS will be a big part of it.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

Third, AI exploded. Many top sales and marketing apps saw growth plummet to close to 0%. Now let’s be clear. 2023 wasn’t hard for everyone: First, it was mainly hard for folks that sold into “tech”, broadly speaking : Monday sells mainly outside of tech — it crushed 2023. A much tougher year.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

For instance, Founders Fund doesn’t really invest in AI, health tech, or edtech, even if you’re growing 5x. For instance, Founders Fund doesn’t really invest in AI, health tech, or edtech, even if you’re growing 5x. Sam just finished 18 months at Founders Fund after joining in mid-to-late 2022. Each VC has a different “flavor.”

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 30, 2024

Since integrating this AI tool into my daily business practices, I take action faster, prioritize projects better, and work the way I need to without slowing down my team or my business. ⚡ On the hunt for more powerful ways to use AI in your work? Personally, I think this trait can be a superpower.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 22, 2024

Common examples include life coaches, writers, visual creators, and consultants. As the founder of CoachRanks , I have the opportunity to work with life coach solopreneurs every week, helping them better understand marketing best practices. A solopreneur is any business driven exclusively by one person. Enter social media.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 10, 2023

Are you interested in using AI to make your Customer Success job easier? We’ll walk through how to write prompts to help you better serve your customers, with examples you can add to your CS toolkit. By the end of this post, you’ll have the confidence and knowledge to create effective CS AI prompts. Let’s get started!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We are capping off a week in Nashville of go-to-market executive learnings, live music, and hot chicken. Some of the team have been at Pavilion ’s GTM2023 conference, a B2B SaaS conference for go-to-market executives. When asked who is rethinking their go-to-market strategy, around 60% of the room had a hand raised in the air.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Which is the best AI writing assistant available for marketing and customer success teams in 2023? Plenty of AI copywriting tools are in the market (and by the time I finish writing this article, there will probably be more) and each of them could be a good choice depending on your needs or budget. Let’s dive in!

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 4, 2023

Content creators need all the help they can get – and they can find it in AI. No longer a far-fetched idea out of a 90s movie, AI has the potential to support content creators at every stage of the content creation process. Thankfully, idea generation is one of the simplest applications of AI tools that are readily available.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Typically on SaaStr.com, we try to focus our content on mistakes to avoid, lessons learned and how to scale faster, but for the CEO Summit, Jason addressed the audience with what’s most top of mind for him at the start of 2024. “I really think we are in a new world as managers and as leaders,” Jason said to kick things off.

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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.

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the core elements of a resource center, go over the steps of building one, and share some design examples to inspire you! Essential elements of most resource centers include user documentation , video tutorials , FAQs, a search function, a feedback widget , product updates , and AI tools.

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