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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

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Prey Reality The AI Funding Explosion That Should Terrify SaaS Leaders Let’s start with the brutal math that should keep every SaaS CEO awake at night: $100 billion in venture capital went to AI startups in 2024 — an 80% increase from 2023 SaaS companies raised only $4.7

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

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Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. And 3 Things Not to Worry So Much About. Much more here.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Hooi Ling Tan is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. The reason? Jessie Lam.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

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That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. To truly support to needs of larger enterprises, you almost need a seasoned VP of Engineering. Enterprise customers need that VP of Engineering to trust you. on the balance sheet.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

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Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. No one wants to do layoffs, cut sales, or fire good engineers, so the marketing budget is the simplest thing left to attack. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. Let’s jump right in.

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

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You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Every smart engineer today is inspired by AI, so give your team the freedom to dream up how AI could improve your product. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Product marketing is neither marketing nor product. It’s up to you.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

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Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Christina Fonseca | Venture Partner @ Indico Partners. It’s taking the bets that will take longer to prove just because it’s new.

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