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The Series A Landscape in 2025: Insights from Chemistry VC’s Ethan Kurzweil

SaaStr

With 17 years of venture capital experience, Ethan began his career in consumer investing before pivoting to B2B, where he developed particular expertise in developer platforms and B2B software. Focus on the right metrics : Be transparent about your key metrics rather than relying on vanity numbers.

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

AI doesn’t magically make every payroll or SOC2 product better, and hooking ChatGPT into an app doesn’t magically change the game. If you outsource your content to some crappy agency that recycles ChatGPT, your content marketing will fail. Develop a playbook. That’s very telling. It’s still early.

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14 Data Analytics Trends for 2024: What You Can’t Ignore

User Pilot

Generative AI : Generates diverse media types, assisting in strategy creation, predictive modeling and product development, impacting content marketing and customer service. Contracts : Facilitates complex data management and exchange with formal agreements, ensuring data integrity and compliance in large ecosystems.

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The ZeroOps journey: Mind The Gap

CloudGeometry

Why can’t we escape hands-on cloud operations work to unlock software development nirvana (aka frictionless, faster development and deployment processes)? Two concepts have recently come into vogue in reducing friction between developers and their cloud infrastructure: NoOps and ZeroOps. It’s the other constant.

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Say Hello to My New AI Marketer: How Gen AI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales

Andreessen Horowitz

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) via Captions ).

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Marketplaces in the Age of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

The company is training a text-to-design model, but says it will pay development commissions to creators who contribute their data to the model from a 3-year $200 million creator fund. use ChatGPT to write scripts, HeyGen to generate a realistic avatar, and ElevenLabs to mimic their voice — completely outsourcing video creation to AI.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The microchip was invented in 1958, but it took almost 50 years for us to get the iPhone. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI