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Why AI Has Taken Longer to Come to Sales Than Coding with Artisan’s CEO

SaaStr

Insights from Jasper Carmichael-Jack, CEO of Artisan at 2025 SaaStr AI Summit About Artisan: AI-powered sales platform building the end-to-end solution —from marketing personalization to AE automation across the entire revenue cycle. Sales is messier. CRM data accuracy sits at 47% across most sales orgs.

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6 Of The Most Common Mistakes I See First Time SaaS Founders Make

SaaStr

Here’s what I see most often, the Top 6 Mistakes First Time SaaS Founders Make: Incomplete understanding of business model, and how it will scale. You have to hire those extra few reps that we don’t really have leads for today. Too much social-media based pattern matching. You have to pay folks market.

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5 Common Pieces of SaaS Advice … That Are Often Wrong

SaaStr

Force them to go annual, and you are just adding friction to the sales process. Here’s a subtle but very important mistake so many VCs, blogs, social media, etc. Yes, as you scale you do need to maintain efficiency in sales and marketing. Give that VP of Sales / Marketing / Engineering more time.

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Social Media Advertising in 2024: A Detailed Guide to Help You Get Started

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Organic social media marketing is a long game. You need to abide by a social media calendar and post consistently, hop on trends, and have a lot of patience before you see tangible results. Enter: Social media advertising. Getting started with social media advertising is overwhelming, to say the least.

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AI Apps The SaaStr Team Loves — and Uses Every Day

SaaStr

Opus Pro: Social Media Clips Made Easy Every SaaStr session has multiple golden moments worth sharing. But manually creating dozens of social media clips? The impact : We’re scaling SaaStr expertise 100x beyond what any human team could handle. Truth bomb: Good content requires good research. More to Come.

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The Top 10 Learnings from Launching SaaStr’s Own AI: What Every B2B Founder Needs to Know

SaaStr

and try it here : I did a deep dive live on Workshop Wednesday with my Top 10 Learnings, and brought in Simon Farshid, founder of Assistant UI , which offers the leading platform to add ChatGPT-like interfaces to your own app and to add some color. It’s about doing things at a scale where there’s simply no human alternative.

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

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” The Numbers Behind the Filing Navan’s IPO filing comes with impressive scale: Probably close to $500m ARR today, $300M in annual revenue as of 2024 40% average revenue growth , with the fintech business growing 100% and travel business expanding 30% $9.2B “We are not far from that.” valuation, raised $2.5B

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