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Dear SaaStr: We’re at $8m ARR, Growing 50% and Bootstrapped. Should We Raise a Growth Round?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We’re at $8m ARR, Growing 50% and Bootstrapped. Should We Raise a Growth Round? At $8M ARR, breakeven, with 50% growth and an LTV/CAC of 5+, you’re in a solid position. You have options. The decision to raise or not depends on your goals and how aggressive you want to be. Whatever you do, don’t raise … just to raise.

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Escheatment Solutions in 2025: Streamlining Return of Funds

USIO

Let’s dive into why escheatment is still a challenge in 2025—and how Usio makes the process smooth, compliant, and user-friendly. What Is Escheatment? Escheatment is the legal process where unclaimed property—like money, gift cards, or refunds—is turned over to the state when the rightful owner can’t be found after a set dormancy period. That window is typically 3–5 years in the U.S., depending on the account type.

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White label merchant processing: Definition, examples, and FAQ

Payrix

What is white label merchant processing? White label merchant processing enables third parties like integrated software vendors (ISVs) or independent sales organizations (ISOs) to customize and sell the payment processing technology and services of a payments provider under their own brands. For a software company, integrating white label merchant processing can be a growth strategy that adds value to their platform and provides their subscribers with a more complete user experience that’s consi

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Usage-based billing breaks down fast—when product, sales, and finance don’t speak the same language.

Blulogix

By BluLogix Team Usage-based billing breaks down fast—when product, sales, and finance don’t speak the same language. We see it all the time: Product wants to price dynamically, by usage tier or consumption thresholds. Sales wants to quote that model—but their CPQ isn’t usage-aware. Finance wants to recognize revenue accurately—but the data pipeline is broken.

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Build the Case: Quantify the Real Costs of In-House Testing and QA Gaps

Underinvesting in software testing costs more than you think, and now you can prove it. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue. Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. Whether you're making the case to leadership or validating outsourcing, this toolkit gives you the numbers and tools you need.

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Brand and SEO Sitting on a Tree: K-I-S-S-I-N-G [Mozcon 2025 Speaker Series]

The Moz Blog

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Top AI Tools in 2025 for Content, Video & Chatbots

How To Buy Saas

Generative AI has exploded by 2025. A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and others (logos shown above) use advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate text, images, and speech. Video-focused AIs such as Runway, Synthesia, and Google’s new Veo/Flow produce high-quality clips from prompts.

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The Smarter Way to Manage AI Threats and Risk

Scytale

Scytale’s newest Risk Assessment capabilities simplifies how you identify, manage, and monitor risks, saving time and making compliance effortless. New York, NY, June 10, 2025 We’re excited to introduce our latest update to our compliance automation platform: Scytale ’s all-new Risk Assessment feature. This update brings a smarter, more automated way to identify, map, and manage risks, reimagining the process with an intuitive user experience that streamlines the entire risk assessment journey,

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Experiential Marketing: Examples, Strategies, and Best Practices

Neil Patel

You’re exposed to around a hundred ads daily. How many of them do you remember? Experiential marketing, on the other hand, is built to stay in people’s minds for a while. Instead of pushing messages through screens or billboards, it invites people to engage directly. And particularly for Millennials and Gen Z — the biggest spenders today — that kind of hands-on connection is exactly what they’re after.

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10 Tips for Creating a Lead Capture Form with CRM That Works (With Examples)

Nimble - Sales

Getting someone to fill out a form on your website seems easy, right? Just ask for their name and email and you’re good to go. But if that’s what you think, you’re missing a huge opportunity. A lead capture form The post 10 Tips for Creating a Lead Capture Form with CRM That Works (With Examples) appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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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Save Your Tech Team from North Korean Developers

TurnKey Labs

They looked like skilled remote developers. They even spoke decent English. But behind the screen? They are North Korean operatives using stolen identities to infiltrate U.S. tech teams. Don’t let your company become the next cautionary tale.

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9 Practical Strategies to Reduce App Churn [+ How to Measure Churn Rate]

User Pilot

Appsflyer reports that app churn rate hits 70% within the first 24 hours, and by day 30, that number climbs to over 90% for most apps. These are alarmingly high figures, especially when you consider that customer acquisition cost for mobile apps has been steadily increasing. Everything points to one fact: mobile app owners with a substantial user base are better off focusing on retention over acquisition.

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The Hidden Truth About Vibe Coding in SaaS: Most B2B Software Was Never Hard to Build

SaaStr

The Vibe Coding discourse has gotten loud. Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. There’s already a lot of truth here, and the explosive growth of Cursor, Windsurf, Loveable, Replit, etc. proves it. You really know intelligence has been commoditized when CEOs start vibe coding!

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How To Conquer the 3 Data Challenges Crippling Your Customer Success Operations

Valuize Consulting

As Customer Success (CS) Operations leaders and specialists, you are the architects and engineers of the Customer Success machine. You build the workflows, configure CS platforms , manage the data pipelines, and strive to empower your CSMs with the insights and actions they need to drive customer value. But what happens when the very foundation of your work – customer data – is fractured, insecure, or misaligned?

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A Strategic Roadmap for AI Integration in Software Testing

Implementing AI in software testing can accelerate release cycles, boost efficiency, and enhance software quality—but only with a clear strategy. This guide offers a step-by-step roadmap to help you evaluate readiness, strengthen infrastructure, upskill teams, and meet compliance needs. Discover how to automate up to 70% of testing tasks, enhance defect detection, and integrate AI into your CI/CD workflows without disrupting your SDLC.

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GTM 150: 80% of Exec Roles Aren’t Posted, Here’s How to Land Them Anyway with Andy Mowat

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Andy Mowat is the Co-Founder of Whispered, and is responsible for building incredible RevOps and GTM systems at unicorns like Upwork, Box, and Culture Amp. With over two decades of experience leading marketing ops, sales ops, and go-to-market infrastructure, Andy is a true pioneer of modern RevOps.

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My AI Writing Index, Feb '23 to Jun '24

Crafty CTO

As I dig in to recap what I saw and learned at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco , I was forced to face my failure to write consistently – a failure that dates back almost exactly a year, to June 12, 2024. Thinking back on it, I see two causes. First, my book of business on the fractional CTO side of things filled up completely, reducing available writing time.

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How Medtech Companies Reduce Support Volume With Userpilot

User Pilot

Medtech platforms face complex workflows, strict compliance demands, and a diverse user base, including clinicians, nurses, admins, and coders. But here’s the pattern I’ve seen again and again: most of these tickets are avoidable. With the right in-app guidance, teams have reduced support loads by as much as 83% , simply by embedding smart, proactive in-app support and self-serve help directly into the product.

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The Private Equity Hangover: What B2B Founders Need to Know About the $3.6T Exit Logjam

SaaStr

If you listen to our pod on 20VC or follow many in venture, you’ll see there’s a lot of stress around liquidity right now. Tons of money going into start-ups and especially growth stage AI, but not that much money … coming back out. The Wall Street Journal just summarized it all in one chart: A record number of companies private equity has purchased … waiting to IPO or be acquired for big numbers. 30,000+ of them.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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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How to Find Influencers for Your Brand

Neil Patel

Picture this: Your brand has an incredible story and solves a near-universal problem, but your internal team doesn’t have the reach to share it. You’d love to get your message out there, but you need someone to help jump-start the process. That’s where influencer marketing comes in. Influencer marketing is user-generated content (UGC) taken to the next level.