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The Vertical SaaS Gold Rush: Why Non-Tech B2B Is Growing 250%+ Faster

SaaStr

TL;DR: While most public SaaS companies are growing at 8-10%, the companies crushing it are those selling outside the tech bubble – restaurants, construction, logistics, and e-commerce. They’re growing 2-3x faster than traditional horizontal SaaS. Many are doing pretty, pretty, well. At Least Right Now.

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

Beyond basic ChatGPT usage, effective AI implementation requires specialized expertise that’s in critically short supply. The spending data captures signatures and payments, not the decision-making process that began quarters earlier. Services opportunities are expanding. Skills bottlenecks are widening.

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What is AI SaaS? All you need to know

Panintelligence

Software as a service (SaaS) organizations have always been at the forefront of innovation. Together, AI and SaaS are reshaping business operations, redefining customer experiences, and driving innovation across industries. What is AI SaaS? Let's explore how AI is enhancing SaaS applications: 1.

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Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and Atlassian All Raise Prices Again in 2025. Hooray.

SaaStr

The major SaaS providers have announced another round of significant price increases for 2025, continuing a trend that’s putting pressure on enterprise software budgets across the board. Among the top 500 SaaS companies, there were 339 pricing and packaging changes in the past year, with many companies implementing multiple adjustments.

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GTM 133: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford

Sales Hacker

Jordan explains how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Deep Research, and Claude to create your own AI workflow for prospecting accounts and creating highly targeted and extremely valuable messages for target decision-makers. It’s the process. The horizontal SaaS company is like, well, what do you do? They’re spread out.

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Why TestDome Considers FastSpring a Real Partner for Selling Software Online (Plus: Is Using AI Cheating?)

FastSpring

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Our customers have been quite happy with the service.” Here’s why. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Will AI Accelerate Vertical SaaS Adoption?

Point Nine Land

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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