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83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet

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At SaaStr Annual, Tomasz Tunguz presented the results of their survey, along with a great story of a public company CRO who had deployed AI SDRs and generated a ton of pipeline … but no closed deals. But is it working yet, these AI SDRs? That was the overall result of their survey.

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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

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Flipping the format: Instead of 90% executive presentations and 10% discussion, they now focus 90% on strategic discussions 2. And I think a lot of the board members did too.” ” So here’s how Brian recently transformed HubSpot’s board meetings with three key changes: 1.

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Dear SaaStr: How Should I Calculate Gross Dollar Retention For Our Investors?

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Gross Dollar Retention (GRR) is a critical metric for SaaS businesses, especially when presenting to investors. Key Best Practices for Presenting GRR to Investors: Exclude Upsells and Expansions : GRR focuses purely on retention, not growth from existing customers. This makes it a more conservative and honest metric.

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AI Apps The SaaStr Team Loves — and Uses Every Day

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Hours in Google Slides, struggling with charts that looked like they were designed in 2005, and presentations that somehow managed to make our impressive data look boring. This isn’t just another presentation tool — it’s like having a design team that understands data visualization. Gamma changed everything.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format.

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What Really Works When Hiring VPs and Executive Teams with HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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They had to present their business to me and show me their website. .’ Start your own small business, buy a domain, build a website, put your contacts in there, sync your LinkedIn, and do an email marketing campaign. And then, the test was after the three weeks of training was in front of me. I think that helped a lot.”

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Dear SaaStr: What Was Your First Meeting Pitching a VC Like?

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I also had a pretty good deck and presentation and team. In fact the very first VC I ever pitched as a founder offered to fund us tentatively with $5m by the end of the first meeting! And then I blew it. What happened? Well, first the intro was from an ex-boss, so I had a strong warm referral. Market timing was also on our side.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

The presentation will be packed full of real-world examples of great inclusive design (covering household products and digital services), alongside a few more detailed case studies explaining how inclusive design can be embedded successfully in the design process. What ‘inclusive design’ really means.

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

Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge.

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All Method, No Madness: Guiding Agile Teams Through Research

Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy

Join Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy, as she presents common issues agile teams have with incorporating research, and how to solve them. Using the right strategy, your agile team will collect qualitative data, interpret it, and integrate it effectively. In this webinar, she'll make specific suggestions around: Team makeup.

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Service Delivery: When Is the Right Time to Deploy Your AI?

Speaker: Dick Stark and Casey Steenport

During this webinar you will learn how: Service management is meeting up with present requirements and helping us look into the future. Service delivery is supporting the current crisis and identifying opportunities for future improvement. Top key considerations are easing digital transformation with AI.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

By the end of this presentation, you’ll understand why distributed tracing is necessary and how it can bring performance and reliability back under control. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams. Prioritize engineering work by putting it in the context of end user experience.