SaaStr
MAY 13, 2025
Dear SaaStr: Our Biggest Potential Customers Are All Asking for Custom Features. When Do We Say Yes? This is a classic enterprise SaaS challengebalancing the need to close big deals with the risk of overextending your team on custom work. Selling 90% out-of-the-box is great, but that 10% custom work can quickly spiral out of control if youre not careful.
Stax
MAY 13, 2025
Credit card merchant services are often viewed as a back-office function or necessary cost. And while its true that they involve fees and backend setup, thats only part of the story. When leveraged strategically, these services can become a key driver of business growth. With the right provider, merchant services can improve your checkout experience, increase cash flow, and unlock valuable business insights.
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USIO
MAY 9, 2025
Delayed payments dont just slow down your operationsthey strain vendor relationships, frustrate customers, and stall growth. The fix? Fintech Payment Solutions built to make digital disbursements faster, smarter, and easier to manage. Lets break down how these tools are transforming the way businesses move money and why its time to leave slow disbursements in the past.
Predictable Revenue
MAY 9, 2025
AI now does research, flags signals, and drafts emails. Freeing you to focus on what moves pipeline: creativity, personalization, and timing. The post What Comes After the SDR Role? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
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.
The Moz Blog
MAY 9, 2025
Is SEO the right move for your business right now? This week's Whiteboard Friday video from Tom Capper tackles a fundamental question: when is the optimal time to do SEO, and what kind of SEO should you focus on? Get practical insights on essential elements like web presence and runway, plus considerations for brand building and content creation.
SaaS Brief brings together the best content for SaaS professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
USIO
MAY 9, 2025
Whether youre a product leader, fintech founder, or payments partner, understanding the language behind embedded finance platforms is mission-critical. This blog post is your jargon-free guide to all the advanced embedded finance terminology you’ll encounterfrom OAuth to multi-rail payment strategies. Weve organized everything alphabetically , so you can find what you need fast.
Buffer Resources
MAY 13, 2025
More doesn’t necessarily mean better. Think emails in your inbox, glitter on a Mother’s Day card, hot sauce… That applies to social media metrics, too. You might be surprised to hear it. The more information you have, the better you can tailor your social media strategy, right? Well, not exactly. Not all social media metrics are created equal, and which ones to focus on comes down to your specific social media goals.
Sales Hacker
MAY 9, 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.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 10, 2025
The blocky charts. The ability to solve a hard test problem. The hidden game of Snake. My graphing calculator was a 7th grade miracle. AI is this generation’s graphing calculator. With about 2 years’ of studies, we can draw some conclusions on its impact. A meta-analysis published in Nature showed a medium to large impact on students. ChatGPT’s Select Impact on Higher-Order Thinking Condition/Scenario Effect Size 1 Significance (p-value) Overall Effect 0.457 < 0.001 Type of
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.
SaaStr
MAY 10, 2025
Dear SaaStr: What Is the Playbook for a Successful Customer Success Team? A good playbook for customer success is all about driving retention, expansion, and customer happiness while making it scalable: Hire Truly Product-Savvy Customer Success Managers at First Focus on hiring people who customer-focused product nerds to start. They need to just love your product, and know how to deal with its issues and solve them.
The Moz Blog
MAY 13, 2025
MozCon is hitting the road in 2025 with two incredible events! Join us in London (August 12) or New York (November 6) to learn from industry leaders like Lidia Infante, Andy Chadwick, Wil Reynolds, and Lily Ray. Our speaker lineup spans technical SEO, AI content systems, creative PR, and community leadership. Delivering fresh insights and strategies you can implement immediately.
Kellblog
MAY 13, 2025
While I could write the equivalent of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover when it comes to variations on how to get fired as CEO, the purpose of this post is simply to discuss three things CEOs can say to their boards that will perk their ears and get them to start asking questions that could lead to the CEO’s termination. Here are those three things: “ I’m getting tired of running the company.” “ I’m running out of ideas for how to fix our core problems.” ̶
BetterCloud
MAY 13, 2025
Every IT team is grappling with the same reality: the ever-widening chasm between the demands placed on IT and the resources at their disposal. The stark figure of a 1:108 IT-to-employee ratio isnt just a statistic, its a daily challenge impacting our teams capacity, our ability to innovate, and ultimately, our contribution to the businesss strategic goals.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Scytale
MAY 9, 2025
Working with third-party vendors isnt just common – its practically inevitable, especially as your business scales. But as youre probably aware by now, with great partnerships come great responsibilities (and risks). Even if your own security posture is rock solid, your compliance and GRC efforts can still fall apart if your vendors dont hold up their end of the bargain.
SaaStr
MAY 9, 2025
So I’d just about given up on the second worst SaaS vendor in our stack at SaaStr. I only paid for it because literally it was a niche use case and I couldn’t find any better vendor. I hadn’t seen a feature release in years and sort of assumed they’d half given up. They cancelled their Free edition a few months back — an even worse sign of a vendor in trouble.
Blulogix
MAY 13, 2025
By BluLogix Team ERP Monetization: Why Your Finance Stack Needs an Upgrade Lets get one thing straight: your ERP system is not your monetization strategy. Yes, it handles financial reporting, general ledger entries, and compliance. Its great at what its built for. But if youre relying on your ERP to handle the complexities of IoT or Telematics monetizationdevice-level billing, usage analytics, subscription logic, channel managementyoure setting it up to fail.
Kellblog
MAY 10, 2025
I’ve written about this topic a lot over the years, but never before integrated my ideas into a single high-level piece that not only provides a solution to the problem, but also derives it from first principles. That’s what I’ll do today. If you’re new to this topic, I strongly recommend reading the articles I link to throughout the post.
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.
BetterCloud
MAY 9, 2025
After years of accelerated SaaS adoption, organizations have fallen victim to SaaS sprawl. Even with the average applications declining, SaaS sprawl still remains a concern. While SaaS sprawl isn’t new for IT teams, the landscape has dramatically shifted, particularly with the explosive emergence of AI. SaaS sprawl concerns increased by 55% State of SaaS 2025 This isnt just about managing a few extra subscriptions; its a systemic issue impacting security, compliance, and budget efficienc
Adhere Creative
MAY 9, 2025
If youre a B2B marketer struggling to get your internal experts involved in content, you just need a smarter approach.
SaaStr
MAY 9, 2025
Dear SaaStr: How Hard Should We Push to Get Cash Upfront in Deals? Offer it. Even make it the default for all bigger deals. But be careful in smaller ones, and where it’s not natural. In theory, collecting upfront for annual and even multi-year contracts can be a fantastic strategy, especially in the earlier days of your B2B business when cash is tight.
Dubb
MAY 9, 2025
Lets be honestsales outreach is broken. Your inbox is full. Your prospects' inboxes? Overflowing. You spend time crafting thoughtful emails, personalizing that one line you hope lands. and still, crickets. That was meuntil I stopped sending plain-text emails and started using video. Real, personal, human video content. It changed everything. This isnt a fluffy theory The post Best Online Video Platform for Business: (Why I use it) appeared first on Dubb Blog.
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Teamgate
MAY 14, 2025
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Kalungi
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Sales Hacker
MAY 13, 2025
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SaaStr
MAY 9, 2025
SaaStr Annual + AI Summit 2025 is just around the corner , taking place at the San Mateo County Event Center from May 13-15, 2025. This comprehensive guide will help you navigate this expansive event and make the most of your experience. Event Overview & Venue The SaaStr Annual campus spans over 40 acres at the San Mateo County Event Center, featuring both indoor and outdoor spaces.
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical
The Daily Egg
MAY 12, 2025
Shopping cart abandonment is an opportunity to win customers who came as close as possible to buying without actually making the purchase. Lets cover exactly. The post Why Shopping Cart Abandonment Happens + How To Reduce It appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 14, 2025
Nobody nants to read your stuff. Writing is about the reader - the infinitely busy reader who has a thousand things to do & three goals to accomplish by the end of the quarter. What will attract the reader? What sentence will propel them to the next phrase to the end? In the past, great content marketers have segmented readers into personas, written witty hooks to entice visitors to dwell.
Clouded Judgement
MAY 9, 2025
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now M&A Sweet Spot We’ve seen quite a bit of M&A (and rumored M&A) so far this year Wiz acquired by Google for $32B Ampere Computing acquired by SoftBank for $6.5B Moveworks acquired by ServiceNow for $2.9B Derbit acquired by Coinbase for $2.9B NextInsurance acquired by Munich Re for $2.6B Weights and Biases acquired by Coreweave for $1.7B NinjaTrad
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