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5 Common Pieces of SaaS Advice … That Are Often Wrong

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A few bits of advice you hear a lot in SaaS that I think often don’t really work in practice: Move to annual contracts to generate more cash. Here’s a subtle but very important mistake so many VCs, blogs, social media, etc. The post 5 Common Pieces of SaaS Advice … That Are Often Wrong appeared first on SaaStr. You’ll see.

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The Quiet Liquidity Crisis in SaaS

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So Thomasz Tunguz put together a great chart summarizing one of my top worries over the past 24+ months in SaaS. And what you can see is there is really almost no liquidity for startups and scale-ups in SaaS and Cloud at the moment. And 2021 was a record year for Saas IPOs. What will the future bring for SaaS liquidity?

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Most SaaS Apps Are Just Getting Starting With AI. 2025 Will Be Radically Different.

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So I caught up the other day with the CTO of a leading SaaS company with tens of thousands of customers, growing quickly. This is a leader in SaaS. In vertical SaaS, many are even further behind. The post Most SaaS Apps Are Just Getting Starting With AI. AI is all over their homepage and website and comms.

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Your SaaS New Year’s Resolutions for 2025

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So we have a classic set of New Year’s Resolutions in SaaS that we update every year. Over the years, so much has changed in SaaS. So with that here are Your Top 10 New Years SaaS Resolutions for 2025: #1. The post Your SaaS New Year’s Resolutions for 2025 appeared first on SaaStr. Not yet, at least.

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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

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The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025/2026 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud migration began 15 years ago. Meanwhile, SaaS — our tried-and-true darling — is projected at $295 billion with a “mere” 18.4% year-over-year.

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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

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SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin recently sat down with HubSpot Chairman and co-founder Brian Halligan , who shared valuable insights on the current state of SaaS, evolving board meeting formats, and how AI is reshaping the industry. Our revenue team went on to be the CROs of Brex, Rippling ,Gong, so many SaaS leaders, like 10 of them.

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6 Of The Most Common Mistakes I See First Time SaaS Founders Make

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What are the most common mistakes I see first time SaaS founders make? Second-time SaaS founders make other mistakes. Here’s what I see most often, the Top 6 Mistakes First Time SaaS Founders Make: Incomplete understanding of business model, and how it will scale. They think they know more than they do.

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