🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing for CFO platform
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing (OBP) model for its Office of the CFO SaaS, removing upfront implementation and subscription fees and instead taking a share of verified financial gains once the solution is live. The approach follows a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS to orchestrate AI‑driven customer journeys
- •SaaS Capital closes $100M fifth fund for B2B SaaS and AI applications
News•Nov 9, 2025
What Is iCloud+? And Is It Worth the Money?
Apple’s iCloud+ is the premium, subscription‑based tier of its cloud service, offering expanded storage options ranging from 50 GB to 12 TB and a suite of privacy‑focused tools such as Private Relay, Hide My Email, custom email domains, HomeKit Secure Video, and Apple Invites. Monthly pricing in the U.S. starts at $0.99 for 50 GB and goes up to $59.99 for 12 TB, with comparable rates in the UK and Australia. The service is positioned as a solution for users who need more than the free 5 GB limit and value integrated privacy features, while those without those needs can remain on the free tier. The article concludes that the value proposition hinges on individual storage demands and the importance of Apple’s privacy enhancements.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 9, 2025
Articulate Their Pain Better, Earn Their Trust
Copywriting pro tip: If you can articulate someone's pain better than they can, they will believe you have the ability to solve it. Focus on their pain, not your pitch.
By Alex Hormozi
Social•Nov 9, 2025
Customer Success Shouldn't Report to Sales: Future at Stake
My least favorite idea of all is to have customer success report to sales It's trading off the future for the present
By Jason Lemkin
Podcast•Nov 9, 2025•0 min
"Sell the Alpha, Not the Feature": The Enterprise Sales Playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel
In this episode, Jen Abel—GM of Enterprise at State Affairs and co‑founder of the Jellyfish consultancy—shares the playbook for scaling a SaaS business from $1M to $10M ARR by focusing on "selling the alpha" rather than individual features. She debunks...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Nov 9, 2025
Interview: Freepik Boss Tells Us the Limits of AI, Why Storytelling Matters, and How Not to Tangle Yourself up in...
At Freepik’s Upscale event in Malaga, CEO Joaquín Cuenca outlined how the company is positioning AI as a collaborative tool for a new class of "creative engineers," supported by the Freepik Spaces platform that blends workflow, feedback and storytelling. He...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 9, 2025
Huawei Is Back in Europe - and It Wants to Help Take Your Small Business to the Next Level, with...
Huawei unveiled its eKit 4+10+N SME intelligence structure at the Connect 2025 event in Madrid, introducing a portfolio of 26 devices and ten pre‑configured solution packages aimed at European small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The offering bundles routers, switches, wireless and AI‑enhanced collaboration...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 9, 2025
Sell the Person, Not the Product, to Win
Sales is a lot like poker. You don't play your hand, you play the man in front of you. You don't sell the product, you sell the prospect. If you can learn someone's why, you can sell them almost any...
By Alex Hormozi
Social•Nov 9, 2025
AI-Powered Real-Time Tracking Cuts Nursing Facility Costs
Norra combines real-time tracking and AI to give nursing facilities the operational intelligence they've never had. No more overpurchasing or scavenger hunts, just instant answers, streamlined operations, and lower rental spend. https://t.co/lVxWk71pgk https://t.co/yNQSy8ERfV
By YCombinator
Blog•Nov 8, 2025
When Competitors Come Calling: 6 Questions That Will Help You Make the Right M&A Decision
Jason Lemkin outlines a six‑question framework for founders to objectively assess acquisition offers, emphasizing gut instinct validation, understanding the acquirer's strategic motives, honest economic analysis, and the founder's own growth trajectory. He stresses timing, opportunity cost, and the importance of...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Finding the ‘Just Right’ Balance Creates Effortless Harmony
One of my greatest pleasures at work is trying to find that point where the work feels just right. Nothing more, nothing less, but right there in the pocket. It's there in every component, in every feature, in every flow, in...
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Nice CTOs Stifle Innovation and Halt Growth
A VP mis-hire is always tough. A VP Sales mis-hire can set you back a year in sales. A VP Marketing mis-hire can lead you down massive time and money ratholes that don’t get you any more customers. But,...
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Nov 8, 2025
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Dust – Build Custom AI Agents That Actually Know Your Company’s Data
Jason Lemkin highlights Dust, a no‑code platform that lets any employee build specialized AI agents tightly integrated with a company’s own tools and data, achieving remarkable 70%+ weekly adoption at firms like Doctolib and Qonto. The key differentiators are its...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Enterprise AI Agents Must Be Domain Specialists, Not Generalists
Despite some of the popular fears that all AI agent use-cases could get sucked into a single platform, I'd argue the other side of this for the enterprise. AI agents, possibly more than any prior era of tech, need to...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Free 90‑Minute Bootstrapping Blueprint: $0‑10M ARR
Yesterday I dropped a free 90-minute course on how to bootstrap your startup from $0-10M ARR. We got 1,000 views the first 24 hours. Here's the course lesson breakdown (and where to watch it): PART ONE: $0-1M ARR Secrets Lesson 1: Why...
By Adam Robinson
News•Nov 8, 2025
VDI, SaaS, and DaaS Uncovered: What Businesses Need to Know
The article outlines four primary application delivery models—local applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), software‑as‑a‑service (SaaS), and desktop‑as‑a‑service (DaaS)—and explains their strengths, trade‑offs, and typical use cases. It highlights that most enterprises now employ a hybrid mix, with 85% using SaaS...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 8, 2025
New “Just the News” AI Newsletter Cuts Through Overload
Ever feel like it's just too hard to keep up with all the AI news every week? As part of our mission to find, share and provide insight into companies driving real ROI from AI - we recently introduced the AI...
By Ray Rike
Social•Nov 8, 2025
AI Fuels B2B Growth: Salesforce Ac
📰 Top AI+B2B News - Sat, Nov 8 https://t.co/MWFHfEuzpm Top Stories: 1. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Spindle AI 2. 1Password Surpasses $400M ARR and Expands Executive Team 3. 'Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary Top SaaStr Articles: 1. When...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 8, 2025
Perplexity Upgrades Comet to Multitask Across Your Tabs
Perplexity has upgraded its Comet Assistant AI to operate across multiple browser tabs, giving it a longer attention span and the ability to multitask on complex, multi‑step tasks such as simultaneous price comparisons or data extraction. The new version adds...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Bootstrapped SaaS Grew via SEO, Sold for Right Price
Christopher Lier built LeadGen App as an internal tool. Turned it into a SaaS, grew it with SEO, and never raised a dollar. When he sold on @acquiredotcom, he knew what his startup was worth and waited for the right buyer...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Tactical AI Agent Playbooks at SaaStr AI London
We're two weeks out from SaaStr AI London (December 1-2), and I wanted to break down the must-attend sessions if you're serious about deploying AI agents in your B2B company. Not the theoretical stuff. The tactical, in-the-trenches playbooks from companies...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 7, 2025
Design.com Logo Maker Review
TechRadar’s review finds Design.com to be an AI‑powered branding platform that offers a vast library of templates for logos, business cards, social media graphics, websites and more, but most of the content is locked behind a subscription. Free templates are...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Growth Stalls Beyond Pipeline: Uncover Deeper Business Bottlenecks
Why your pipeline isn’t the problem. 4 deeper issues sabotaging your growth. Most AI and SaaS Founders obsess over pipeline metrics, but that’s rarely the real bottleneck. It’s so easy to blame a dry pipeline when the real issues live deeper inside...
By TK Kader
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Build Site APIs 100× Cheaper and Faster with Parse
Parse lets you build APIs for any website— 100x cheaper and faster than browser automation. Parse makes deterministic APIs that use direct network requests that cost fractions of a cent and return in milliseconds. https://t.co/3KZqJuHUhg Congrats on the launch, @alexscraping! https://t.co/msFhWUFwxr
By YCombinator
News•Nov 7, 2025
The 5 Key Takeaways Creative Teams Need to Know About Freepik Spaces
Freepik has launched Spaces, a cloud‑based, node‑driven platform that lets creative teams build and refine AI‑generated assets directly in the browser, sidestepping the heavy hardware demands of tools like ComfyUI. The interface offers an auto‑mode and an Assistant node that...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Completed 33 Tasks Using Unstoppable Flow
Knocked 33 tasks off my hit list this week thanks to Unstoppable Flow ✨ ✨ Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn2yKD
By TK Kader
Social•Nov 8, 2025
AI Desktop Copilot Suggests Emails, Tasks, Meetings
Logical (@trylogical) is a proactive AI copilot for the desktop. It’s like Clippy, but actually good. Logical lives on your desktop, watches what you do, and proactively suggests email drafts, tracks to-do items, provides meeting insights, and much more. https://t.co/vReZpDmrYS
By YCombinator
Blog•Nov 7, 2025
If You Ever Think "Should I Fire This Person?" Even Once ... Well, Then It's Time
In this episode, Jason Lemkin argues that the moment a leader questions whether to fire an employee, the answer should be an immediate, compassionate termination. He explains how gut instincts synthesize performance data, and why retaining "pretty good" or mediocre...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Trust Trumps Quality: Customers Choose Familiar Ideas
People don’t buy the best solution. They buy the idea they trust most.
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Agentic Fabriq Secures Agent Permissions Like Okta
Agentic Fabriq (@agenticfabriq) ensures that human employees can’t access data or take actions with agents that they themselves would not have permission to do. It’s like Okta for agents. https://t.co/GOfpPNxzSF
By YCombinator
News•Nov 7, 2025
Spiraling Costs of Downtime Tell Us It's Time for a New Engineering Mindset
Research from New Relic shows that high‑impact IT outages cost EMEA firms a median $102 million annually – roughly $2 million per hour, or $33,000 per minute – and 37% of respondents experience such events at least weekly. The report finds that...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Serverless API Turns Real-Time Streams Into Simple Storage
https://t.co/wJCDi1KWOl (@s2_streamstore) is the serverless API for unlimited, durable, real-time streams. Streams are now a dead-simple cloud storage primitive. Congrats on the launch, @shikhrr, @sgbalogh0, and @quettabitxyz! https://t.co/2JXcYtSXvb https://t.co/xQoRfmprtG
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 8, 2025
Ask “What Must Be True?”—Transforms Possibilities
Switching from "it won’t happen" to "what would need to be true for this to happen?" changes everything.
By Dan Martell
Social•Nov 8, 2025
SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking Delivers 183 Intros in Two Weeks
The new SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking tool has already made 183 VC intros in its first 2 weeks Try it here -> https://t.co/ZbU9L2c0td https://t.co/HXWF2pE3Gx
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 8, 2025
From 9‑5 Frustration to Building Desired Products with YC
Before YC, @therishic was working a regular 9–5, frustrated by how slow things moved and fighting to build anything new. Now, as co-founder of Kastle (YC S24), he’s able to finally build products that people really want. https://t.co/gNl84ElBrq https://t.co/p3nNZhky1p
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Instant AI Mockups: Build Product Designs in Seconds
Should there be a "HubStr?" HubSpot + SaaStr? Maybe! This mockup took me 12 seconds to create. Not 12 hours. Not 12 days. 12 seconds. I used https://t.co/82tRYBCmdz - an AI prototyping tool built specifically for Product Managers who want to prototype...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Invite Users Right Before Launch to Force Final Polish
There are plenty of opportunities to invite people to your product ahead of the formal launch. Alpha, beta, etc. My preference is only right at the end. Typically a week or two before we go live. When the product is in...
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Hire Like a Salesperson: Sell Your Startup First
Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling. For Startup School, @juicebox_work co-founder & CEO @davepaffenholz joins YC's @harjtaggar to share how early-stage founders can find, pitch, and close top engineering and sales talent— from crafting better...
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Mobile On‑Call Queue Now Powered by Fizzy Integrations
Our mobile team is now running their On Call queue through Fizzy. Actual current screenshot below. And that little globe top left being filled in means webhooks have been setup. New cards are also pushed into a Campfire room in Basecamp...
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Customer Discovery, Not Growth, Fueled Clay’s $3.1B Valuation
Everybody thinks @clay raised at a $3.1B valuation because they grew 300% in 6 months. They’re wrong. They raised at $3.1b because they built a culture of Customer Discovery and Product Iteration. Here’s what NOBODY knows about Clay: Varun Anand...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Original Research Drives SaaS Content—Pick the Right Topic
We ran a bunch of original research studies in early 2025. Some hit big. Some flopped. Here's what we learned. Original research is still one of the best bets for B2B SaaS content marketing. You get unique data insights nobody else...
By Peep Laja
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Your Second-Best Ideas Are the Biggest Business Risk
The biggest risk to your business are your 2nd and 3rd best ideas you keep working on but shouldn't.
By Alex Hormozi
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples This Week
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/V8SZjLZuQw
By Jamin Ball
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Iris: Calendar‑Integrated Assistant Automates Scheduling and Email
Iris (@Iriscalv0) is a personal assistant built right into your calendar and inbox. It connects with all your context, so you can hand off the busywork of scheduling, replying, and organizing your day. Live on the App Store now: https://t.co/NYhRqPC9E9 https://t.co/LehQSYgEDh
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 7, 2025
AI-Powered Group Chats Streamline Real-Life Hangouts
Digipals (@digipals_app) is building a future where AI enhances our human relationships: AI-native group chats that get full context on your location, calendar, and relationship history to help you better coordinate hangouts with your friends IRL. https://t.co/TjLRB3djKF
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Secure AI Funding Now or Fall Behind
"If you haven't captured any AI budget for your start-up yet, your team failed. They had all of 2025 You had to grow faster due to AI in 2025. Twilio, Mongo, Snowflake, startups like WorkOS and RevenueCat all did. The budget was...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 7, 2025
Continuous AI Engineer Accelerates System Iteration Automatically
Soren (@soren_ai_inc) is building an AI engineer that never stops iterating on your AI systems. It continuously tests, diagnoses issues, and runs experiments in the background — helping your team iterate faster without the manual trial-and-error grind. https://t.co/afnjihMMAB
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 7, 2025
AI‑Human Chat Unifies Travel Support with Agentforce 360
See how Agentforce 360 Service + ChatGPT connect through OpenAI’s Apps SDK to create seamless, intelligent customer experiences. From booking flights to updating travel details for your puppy — AI + humans working together in one continuous conversation. #Agentforce #AI #CustomerSuccess ✈️🐶🤖
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 7, 2025
300 Fizzy Beta Invites Sent, More Coming Soon
~300 Fizzy beta invites have been sent out over the last few days. More on the way.
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 7, 2025
ChatGPT and AgentForce Unite for Customer Success
ChatGPT+AgentForce=Humans & Agents creating customer success together. ❤️ https://t.co/1oYZQaDnL9
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 7, 2025
High‑Growth Software Commands 3× Higher Multiples
This week on Clouded Judgement: Market Cycles - Median software multiple: 4.9x - High Growth software median: 16.3x - Mid Growth software median: 6.3x - Low Growth software median: 3.8x - 10Y: 4.1% Article in next post 👇 https://t.co/Bh1jldJdQB
By Jamin Ball