SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

Bessemer’s Talia Goldberg and Google Cloud’s COO Francis Duza were kind enough to join us at SaaStr AI Summit 2025 on what’s driving the fastest technology adoption in decades. The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget The pace of AI advancement has fundamentally broken our traditional frameworks for thinking about technology adoption, market timing, and competitive moats.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 5, 2025

When it comes to understanding what your users are doing on your website, Crazy Egg and Hotjar are two of the most popular tools on. The post Crazy Egg vs Hotjar: Ones Built for Speed, the Other for Control appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

Dear SaaStr: What Are A Few Top Tips to Hiring The Right First VP of Sales? Hiring a great VP of Sales is one of the most critical decisions youll make as a founder. Get it right, and theyll scale your revenue and team. Get it wrong, and youll lose a yearor more. Heres how to approach it: Timing is Everything Dont hire a VP of Sales too early. If you dont have a repeatable sales process or at least two reps hitting quota, youre not ready.

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FastSpring

JUNE 5, 2025

On June 4, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Apple’s request to stay the April 30 ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, meaning the ruling will remain in effect. For now, steering from App Store apps is still allowed in the U.S. “We’ve already seen some of our mobile game publishers more than double D2C revenue in the U.S. since simply introducing steering,” says FastSpring Head of Gaming Chip Thurston.

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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 5, 2025

Let’s say it’s a rainy Saturday, and you’re trying to figure out what to watch. You’d never choose to sit through a 10-hour movie (though you’d be hard-pressed to find one ). But you’d happily spend the day binge-watching an entire season of Severance. You’d spend the same amount of time watching, but the latter sounds way more appealing, right? Why is that?

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User Pilot

JUNE 5, 2025

As a product manager at Userpilot, I’ve had the chance (and let’s be honest, responsibility) to try out major onboarding automation tools in this space. That includes Appcues, Userflow, Userguiding, and Pendo, besides our own platform. In this post, I’ll walk you through how these tools compare based on actual, hands-on use, not just pricing tables and feature checklists.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

Why Racing to $100M ARR Doesn’t Predict Generational Outcomes The latest data from Scale Venture Partners reveals a surprising truth about SaaS growth trajectories Every conversation at Blue Bottle in South Park seems to circle back to the same anxiety-inducing question: Is the traditional “triple-triple-double-double-double” growth paradigm dead?

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Teamgate

JUNE 5, 2025

Features Overview Tour CRM Sales Velocity Mobile Apps Industries Collect Lead Capturing SmartDialer Email Integration Convert Lead Management Lead Qualification Lead Prioritization Time Management Sales Pipeline Management Sales Acceleration Contact Management Product Catalogue Insights Analytics & Reports Sales Dashboard Sales Activity Pipeline Management Sales Leaderboard KPIs & Sales Goals Pricing Blog Resources Help Center Everything about to get you started and improve knowledge.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

So we came back to HubSpot’s My First Million Podcast with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to do a deep dive on AI and SaaS. It was a fun one because we approached it more from a content creator and end-user perspective vs. a software builder perspective. The Top 10 AI in B2B Takeaways: 1. AI Clones Can Outperform Their Human Creators. Our SaaStr AI Can Outperform Jason Lemkin.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 5, 2025

Like many people I want to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). This post is part of a series where I experiment with AI tools, share what I build and learn. My hope is that these posts will create discussion around this transformational technology, its use cases and maybe even help others on their journey of AI discovery. The focus of this experiment is to use AI tools to research democracy, wealth, happiness and health in Europe, create a data visualization, and then write an essay a

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

The most profound shifts in enterprise software happen not with fanfare, but with quiet ubiquity. Today marks one of those moments. The Great Sales AI Skepticism Just Died For months, B2B sales leaders have been saying the same thing across LinkedIn and at every conference: “Sure, AI will help with lead scoring and email sequences, but it’ll never impact enterprise and in-person sales.

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USIO

JUNE 5, 2025

Ever sat through a payments meeting and wondered if you accidentally joined a secret society that only speaks in acronyms? You’re not alone. Between PFaaS, NACHA, and VPA, the payments industry has more abbreviations than a teenagers group chat. At Usio , we think payments should be simple and that you shouldnt need a PhD in Acronymology to understand them.

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The Moz Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Struggling to explain or understand technical SEO? These real-life analogies simplify technical concepts, making SEO easier to understand and teach.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Scytale

JUNE 5, 2025

In compliance and cloud security, controls play a critical role. These controls ensure the organization follows specific standards and frameworks required for maintaining security. But what exactly are compliance controls, and why are they so crucial? TL;DR Compliance controls are essential for ensuring that organizations meet security and regulatory standards.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 5, 2025

When you think about SaaS onboarding, what comes to mind? Scores of help docs and maybe a few automated emails? In reality, onboarding requires significantly more human effort than most people realize. Im the Director of Onboarding here at ChartMogul, and over the years, Ive seen what works, what doesnt, and all the in-between. This … When you think about SaaS onboarding, what comes to mind?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2025

Who could have predicted that crypto and data center real estate would be the categories swinging the IPO market doors open? In late 2024, I predicted a thaw in the IPO market. We’re now seeing that forecast come to life with CoreWeave and Circle’s IPOs. Neither company is pure-play software, but their strong performances signal renewed investor appetite for the ragged edge of technology.

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