SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2025

The 40% Problem: How AI Will Finally Fix Sales Coverage and Customer Face Time A wake-up call from HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on why your sales team is failing 60% of their accountsand how AI will change everything There’s a brutal truth about B2B sales that most founders refuse to acknowledge. HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan just laid it bare at a recent conference, and it should make every SaaS leader uncomfortable.

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USIO

JUNE 9, 2025

You’re here because someone—maybe your CEO, maybe your investor, maybe your gut—told you that owning payments could be a game-changer for your platform. They’re right. But here’s the part that gets glossed over:  how you own payments matters. Should you become a full Payment Facilitator (PayFac)? Or should you partner with a PayFac-as-a-Service provider?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 6, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now How to Spot ERR Last March (crazy it’s already been a year since I wrote this post!) I wrote an article about ERR vs ARR. Here’s a quick summary of that post. ARR (annual recurring revenue) is a hallmark SaaS metric rooted in predictability.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 3, 2025

The July 1st, 2024, sunsetting of Universal Analytics (UA)colloquially known as Google Analytics 3 (GA3)introduced all sorts of data discrepancies and migration issues for users. The post 5 Ways Google Analytics Is Inaccurate (+ How to Improve Data Quality) appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 9, 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 was to use AI tools to create a sales methodology selector tool - you simply answer a few questions, and the tool makes a recommendation

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

Where venture capital flows, innovation follows. And for more than a decade, few faucets have been watched more closely than Y Combinator. An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. With Demo Day approaching this week & inspired by Jamesin Seidel’s YC Series A analysis , I wondered how YC investment patterns have changed since 2020.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 3, 2025

When it comes to web design, whitespace is something thats easy to overlook. But strategically using your white space is just as important as picking. The post Whitespace in Web Design appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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USIO

JUNE 6, 2025

The embedded finance market—including Payfac-as-a-Service—is projected to exceed $7 trillion in global transaction volume by 2030. That’s not a blip—it’s a massive shift in how businesses are managing money. I f you’re running a SaaS platform, marketplace, or digital-first business, you’ve probably already bumped into the complexities of payment processing.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 7, 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 was to use AI tools to create a Marketing & Sales Funnel Calculator - an app that shows how many leads a Marketing team needs to gen

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

Dear SaaStr: Should I Move My Start-Up to SF Bay Area? The SF Bay Area is still the epicenter of B2B and tech. And AI has made it … even more so. Even as the world has gone more remote and distributed, there are unique advantages to being based here—especially for startups that want to build something really big. thrilled to be partnering with jony, imo the greatest designer in the world. excited to try to create a new generation of AI-powered computers. pic.twitter.com/IPZBNrz1jQ —

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Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

The term SaaS platform gets tossed around a lotbut what does it actually mean, and why does it matter for today’s software companies? Whether you’re building your first product or scaling an established solution, understanding the SaaS platform model is essential for long-term growth. In this article, we’ll break down what a SaaS platform is, highlight real-world examples, and explore key strategies to succeed in the fast-moving software-as-a-service industry.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 4, 2025

Whenever I hear about a new startup, I pull out my research playbook. First, I understand the pitch, then find backgrounds of the team, & tally the total raised. 1 Over the weekend, I decided to migrate this workflow to use AI tools, & the process taught me something important about how we’re actually integrating AI into our work. Tools are small programs that expand AI capabilities.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 9, 2025

Sometimes low conversion rates aren’t the outcome of poor landing page design or weak copy but of a deeper market fit challenge. Now, if you. The post What Every High Converting Landing Page Has + 6 Examples appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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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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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 9, 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 was to use AI tools to create a sales email grader - you write a sales email and and within seconds the tool uses 50+ sales methdologies

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

New spending data from Ramp reveals a possible trend: end user AI adoption may be hitting its first growth slow down. The AI adoption party might be slowing down—at least temporarily. Fresh data from Ramp’s AI Index suggests that the meteoric rise in business AI spending might be showing signs of deceleration, raising questions about whether we’re witnessing market maturation or beginning to hit a potential adoption ceiling: The numbers tell a nuanced story.

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User Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Nearly 60% of mobile teams still rely on self-hosted push tools. They trade short-term savings for long-term pain: no analytics, poor timing control, and zero personalization. This leads to errors like sending a product update notification at 1 AM or showing the wrong message to the wrong user segment. If youre serious about building a mobile app, you cant afford to make such costly mistakes. 78% of users churn in the first week after installation when brands dont have a clear engagement strateg

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Predictable Revenue

JUNE 6, 2025

The best outbound teams aren’t replacing reps with AI, they’re augmenting them. Using AI to crunch data, but humans act on the signals. The post AI SDRs, Human Ingenuity, and the Road Ahead appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 9, 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 was to use AI tools to create an interactive gallery of 100 of historys greatest artworks, complete with an image, description and categ

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2025

So Chime is ready to IPO, and while it’s not SaaS or true B2B today, there are enough interesting lessons for us to learn from. As a “prosumer” app there is overlap for SMB and freemium B2B apps. The metrics are very strong: $2B ARR (run rate — but not really software revenue) Generated from $121B in transactions on platform Growing 23% $251 ARPU 88% Gross Margins Average customer uses 3.3 products Non-GAAP Profitable (just), but profitability increasing quickly We’

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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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Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 9, 2025

Today organizations run on SaaS – and coffee, although coffee is probably a close second. But let’s get back to SaaS. SaaS tools offer flexibility and scalability for every department in your organization, but this convenience comes at a cost (both literally and figuratively). With potential for sprawl and often underestimated expenses, software can significantly impact your bottom line.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 3, 2025

Sometimes the Unbounce offering isnt enough. Other times its not what you need, but its close. While this CRO platform checks the core boxes to. The post 5 Unbounce Alternatives & Competitors for Landing Pages appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 6, 2025

If your customer success strategy is still centered around catching churn in real time, you’re behind. In 2025, the top customer leaders are engineering retention by building systems that detect risk early, reinforce value continuously, and empower every team member to act. While reactive “saves” will always matter, they’re no longer enough when your CFO wants revenue predictability and AI-powered competitors are reaching your customers faster than ever.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2025

Snowflake vs. Databricks: The $1.25 Billion PostgreSQL Battle for AI Agent Supremacy Brief Overview : Two data giants are making strategic moves to dominate the AI agent infrastructure market through major PostgreSQL acquisitions. Snowflake’s $250 million purchase of Crunchy Data and Databricks’ $1 billion acquisition of Neon represent a fundamental shift in how B2B software companies are preparing for the era of autonomous AI agents.

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Blulogix

JUNE 9, 2025

By BluLogix Team Most companies think they’re ready for usage-based billing. Until it’s too late They’ve got a metering platform.   They’ve got usage data flowing in.   They may even have the beginnings of a tiered pricing model.   But when it’s time to go live?   Usage data is messy and inconsistent   CPQ can’t simulate dynamic pricing   Finance can’t recognize usage-based revenue accurately   Invoices lack transparency—and customer trust suffers   Ready to see how BluIQ can transform your bill

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 6, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 8, 2025

Too many business decisions hinge on habits, instinct, or the loudest person in the room. Hypothesis testing offers a better way. Instead of working off. The post How To Use Hypothesis Testing to Drive Revenue appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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