SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2025

Dear SaaStr: How Does a Founder Mindset Change As You Go From Startup to Scaleup? The big changes I see: Moving (Over Time) From Hustler to Strategist. Though Stay a Hustler, Too 😉 In the early days, you’re in the trenches—selling, building, and doing whatever it takes to survive. But as you scale, you have to step back and focus on strategy. You move from being the doer to the leader, managing teams and making high-level decisions.

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Sparktoro

JUNE 11, 2025

60% of marketers say their top goal for the next 12 months is “increasing traffic.” And 59% say their primary KPI is… also traffic. To all those folks, I say: you’re about to have a terrible, horrible, no-good year. The Internet is sending less traffic. Period.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2025

So Circle is the latest tech IPO and it’s not really B2B or SaaS per se — it’s a fintech that issues and manages “stablecoins” Cypto that converts 1:1 to U.S. dollars. But there are still lessons to learn, and it’s great to see the IPO markets truly re-opened: $2.3 Billion Revenue Run Rate Growing a stunning 60% $16 Billion valuation, so about 8x revenue We're back to IPOs seeming normal again That's quietly a big deal And a good thing [link] —

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 11, 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 create a summer marketing campaign brief for Coca-Cola, and then respond to the brief with three creative ideas -

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Stax

JUNE 11, 2025

Finance executive brings 35+ years of financial expertise to spearhead Stax Payments’ next chapter of strategic expansion, building on the company’s solid foundation and customer-first approach. ORLANDO – June 11, 2025 – Stax Payments , Inc. a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Kevin Wall as Chief Financial Officer. Wall’s impressive track record includes over 15 years of successfully leading finance organizations at top payments companies while navigating complex financial

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BetterCloud

JUNE 11, 2025

We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing all the ways you can automate IT tasks with a SaaS management platform (SMP). We have also deep-dived into how automation can make IT a lot more efficient, as well as keep employees productive and improve your SaaS security posture. As SMPs have grown in functionality and extensibility, so too has the power of the automated workflows you can orchestrate.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

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Blulogix

JUNE 11, 2025

By BluLogix Team The “Before You Go Live” Checklist Before you bill a single byte, ask yourself this: Can you ingest usage data in real time—from devices, platforms, or partners? Can you mediate and clean that data into standardized formats? Can you apply dynamic rate plans across contracts, tiers, or regions? Can you generate transparent, itemized invoices that customers trust?

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SaaS Metrics

JUNE 11, 2025

Transaction emails are one of the most undervalued forms of communication. However, from a marketing standpoint, such correspondence transcends acknowledgment of orders, purchases and payment to confirmation emails and automatic digital receipts to shipping updates. Where the average consumer believes these automated messages are created merely to acknowledge the status of one’s.

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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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Nimble - Sales

JUNE 11, 2025

Gone are the days when a few Excel sheets and calendar reminders could manage client data and communications. As tax regulations become more complex and client expectations rise, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems have emerged as vital tools to help The post Best practices for using CRM in Tax Advisory Consulting appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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User Pilot

JUNE 11, 2025

Digital‐health adoption exploded during the pandemic, with McKinsey reporting a 78-fold increase between February and April 2020 , before things settled back into a steadier growth curve. Yet one glaring challenge remains: healthcare apps struggle to keep users engaged. In our 2024 benchmark, Month-1 retention for healthcare sits at just 34.5% , fully 12.4 points below the 46.9% average across industries and last in our study.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 11, 2025

You’ve mastered your tech stack. Your GitHub is spotless. So why aren’t U.S. companies lining up to hire you? Because hard skills get your foot in the door, but soft skills get you the seat at the table. The importance of soft skills grows day after day, as U.S.

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Nimble - Sales

JUNE 11, 2025

Launching a successful bakery is more than mixing flour, sugar, and butter—it’s about blending creativity, strategy, and smart business practices. Whether you’re dreaming of opening a cozy neighborhood patisserie, a bustling urban cupcake shop, or a modern online bakery, a The post Best Examples of Business Plan for a Bakery appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2025

The Great Summer VC Myth: What 42,000+ Funding Rounds Tell Us About Raising Capital in July “VCs are all on vacation in the Hamptons during summer” – Every founder who’s ever tried to raise in July We’ve all heard it. The startup fundraising gospel according to Sand Hill Road: Don’t even think about raising venture capital between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 11, 2025

On many social media platforms, verification means a paid subscription — or being a celebrity. But on Bluesky (as is par for the course), things look a little different. The decentralized platform is blazing a new blue check trail: one that mixes top-down trust with community credibility. Whether you’re a journalist, creator, brand, or just someone who wants to prove they’re actually who they say they are online, here’s what you need to know about how verification wor

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