Buy‑first SaaS Mindset Limits Flexibility for Unique Needs
The 'buy-first' software mentality is failing. Cloud and SaaS solutions offer less flexibility than on-premise systems, exposing limitations as businesses struggle to find off-the-shelf software that truly fits their unique needs. #SaaS #CloudSolutions #TechTrends https://t.co/jssLieu2d4
Intuit's AI Construction Edition Disrupts Mid‑Market Contractors
The construction industry is finally getting the disruption it desperately needs — and @Intuit just threw down a serious gauntlet. After leading digital transformations for construction companies and working inside multiple construction/home improvement software firms, I've seen the same frustrations repeat:...
Boost Forecast Accuracy, Margin, and Savings with Prophit Engine
Our new Prophit Engine service is now live. In this episode I cover: Who’s it for Why you should care And how to get started. https://t.co/iSLVAmatFe My challenge to every founder, CFO or CMO is to listen and ask yourself if 1)...
Give SaaS Users an API, Empower Their Agents
Every SaaS must offer an API to its data & functionality. If you run a SaaS, consider this: eventually, all your serious users will run some kind of agentic tool to get work done. The question is: will you make it easier...
Deliver Double Value, Charge Half, Watch Profits Soar
The best businesses deliver $4 of value, charges $2, and costs them $1 to do it. This is what Figma did, and therefore why it was worth 50x ARR. And why their customers aren’t upset that they’re so profitable. You can too: https://t.co/HFQMWgThom
AI Boosts, Not Destroys, Niche SaaS Builders
Everyone saw the Citrini piece last week that said niche SaaS will get wiped out by AI first because anyone can vibe-code a replacement in-house. I run two niche SaaS companies with 33 people. By that logic, we should already be dead. But...
ARR Hides Five Metrics; Track Them All
Most SaaS founders know their ARR. Very few can explain where it came from. I've sat in dozens of board meetings where someone says "ARR is up 20%" and the room nods. Then a board member asks "how much of that...
Future-Proof Cloud Costs: Strategies for a Volatile Decade
Cloud cost management strategies for upcoming volatile decade. < My comments within... https://t.co/Zpgqt1oMun #CIO #CostManagement #TBM #FinOps #Cloud
New SaaS Founders: How Many Paying Users Now?
Founders who just launched their SaaS product, how many paying users do u currently have?
High Cancellation Rates OK Only With Supporting Business Model
Any metric can be out of whack if the rest of the business model supports it. For example Shopify is objectively a phenomenal business, but their cancellation rate is 7%/mo. That's fatally high… normally. But they have such great NRR for...
AI Assistant Cuts Founder Admin to Zero
If you run a business, you need to see this 👀 @HeyNoahAI is a new assistant built strictly for Founders and Execs, designed to slash your admin and coordination time to absolute zero 📉 Mark your calendars for March 10th, 2026. Grab your...
AI Empowers Solo Entrepreneurs to Build End‑to‑End Businesses
We are seeing the rise of the full stack entrepreneur. AI is expanding the scope of what an individual entrepreneur can do. She can have the idea. She can test it using a virtual customer panel constructed with LLMs. She...
SpotPay Launches Universal Account Across 40+ Countries
SpotPay is building the Global Bank Account. One account that lets anyone send, receive, and spend money locally and across the globe. They’re already live in 40+ countries. https://t.co/RSc6UwlrDZ https://t.co/lV8KO2qvrJ
Integrating HeyMantle Proves Toughest Part of New Shopify App
Surprisingly, the hardest part about building a new Shopify app has been integrating @heymantle. I dread having to troubleshoot it.
Product‑Market Fit Is a Spectrum, Not a Binary
Most founders think of product-market fit as binary. You have it or you don't. That framing causes a lot of unnecessary anxiety. PMF is a spectrum. You move through stages, and each stage has different work. The question isn't "do I have PMF?" It's...
AI Project Management Lets Contractors Focus on Building
Scout Out (@scoutoutai) is building AI-powered project management for residential contractors — handling estimates, docs, and job admin so they can keep their hands on the hammer, not the keyboard. Congrats on the launch @NolanRossi100! https://t.co/hyA8c1GPeI https://t.co/hU6KeYIKDc
After 8 Years of Automation Frustrations, He Built Browserless
Joel Griffith spent 8 years running into the same browser automation problems at every company. PDF generation, testing, scraping. Nobody was fixing it. So he built Browserless. 🎧 Full episode: https://t.co/x0lrONdL0q https://t.co/3Pt9xg7IdH
A Small Step Boosts User Ownership and Adoption
The Betty Crocker effect: sometimes making your product do everything is the fastest way to make users feel like spectators. Quick story. When Betty Crocker first released instant cake mix, all you had to do was add water. It flopped....
Build Fast, Promote Faster: Get Featured on Our Platform
You build it. I promote it. Building has never been easier. Getting customers has never been harder. So I’m picking 2 products to promote to our 1,000,000+ entrepreneurs for our 16-year anniversary next Tuesday. Drop your product below. Don’t have one? Build it...
Sell During Strong Growth, Not Market Uncertainty
We spend a lot of time at Vista Point walking founders through the considerations around WHEN to pursue a liquidity event. While external factors like the state of your vertical market are certainly important to consider, the first and foremost...
Revenue Architecture Beats Tactics for Predictable SaaS Growth
Most SaaS companies try to fix growth problems with tactics. More leads. More tools. More sales hires. But predictable revenue depends on something deeper: Revenue Architecture. The system connecting ICP, positioning, pricing, pipeline, and sales. I explain the framework here → https://t.co/y9I8gazKsu
Skip VP Hires Until $10M ARR, Stay Hands‑on
If you're under $10M ARR and you have a VP of anything, that’s a mistake. > You hire a VP of Sales > Now you need a VP of Marketing > Now you need a VP of Product Suddenly, you're managing executives instead of...
Start at the Funnel Bottom for Rapid Pipeline Results
If paid media is set up correctly, you should start seeing a qualified pipeline within 30–45 days. Here's how we achieve that for our clients: Many B2B teams end up running paid media backwards. They start with awareness, build an...
Context Is the iPhone Moment for GTM Success
A couple weeks ago @ParthGujare_ Senior Product Manager at Ramp posted about their internal revenue stack and what they had built for it. “A customer data platform “processes millions of records, internal, external, crm data daily”, A unified action layer with...
GPT-5.4 Boosts Document Extraction Accuracy by 6 Points
Model progress continues unabated, with GPT-5.4 showing significant improvements in critical knowledge worker tasks. In our Box AI tests, we saw a 6 point jump in agentic document processing, which is upstream from most automation workflows. GPT-5.4 is now available...
AI Agents Can Now Launch Flawless $50k MRR Startups
You can quite literally ask your agent to "build me a 50k MRR startup, make no mistakes" now
Serverless AI Cuts Token Costs Compared to Claude/OpenAI
I burned 84 million tokens on February 28th. Researching companies, drafting memos, running agents. That’s running Kimi K2.5, a serverless model via API. At Claude or OpenAI rates — roughly $9 per million tokens blended — equivalent usage would cost $756...
GPT‑5.4 Launches with 1M‑token Context, Native Computer Use
GPT-5.4 is launching, available now in the API and Codex and rolling out over the course of the day in ChatGPT. It's much better at knowledge work and web search, and it has native computer use capabilities. You can steer it mid-response,...
Gemini Live Adds Combined Video‑share Button and Fullscreen Drag Handle
Gemini Live has some more tricks in the works for its overlay bar Combined video and screen sharing buttons and a drag handle to go full screen ✅ Details and screenshots - https://t.co/sBIpPy2cH1 https://t.co/4JSPOgTwna
Built Voice AI Years Ahead, Now Powering Millions
In 2017, Dylan Fox started @AssemblyAI— years before the AI boom. It took 5 years for the market to catch up. Now, AssemblyAI powers voice features for thousands of companies and processes hundreds of millions of hours of audio every year. Dylan...
New Contact Module Centralizes Team Replies and Client Context
Contact forms can be tricky if you want to share the received emails with your team: Who replied, what's the history, who is this client? That's why we've added the "Contact" module in @feedbask_com Now, it’s easy to know if a team...
Coaching Strategies to Jump From $1M to $5M ARR
Stuck at $1M ARR. But the goal is to reach $5M. In this episode, I coach @MSliwinski on how to get his software company unstuck. Search "Nathan Barry Show" to watch. https://t.co/NAMZTWA7Ww
AI Founders Are a Tiny Minority—Run Past the Rest
I'm really excited for young founders right now. If you're building with AI today, you're the yellow and red on this chart. Tiny sliver of the population. The green and the gray are the 84% of people who have never touched...
Bootstrapped SaaS: Profit First Month via Community Outreach
First customer: $200/month plan. Infrastructure bill: $50. Profitable in month one. Found by answering questions on Stack Overflow, GitHub, and Reddit. Joel Griffith bootstrapped Browserless to nearly $4M ARR. https://t.co/hPZB3qTqRL
Credit‑Card Trials Double Revenue Efficiency vs Freemium
If 1,000 people land on your website… How much revenue do you actually generate? Kyle Poyar , ChartMogul and ProductLed analyzed 200 SaaS & AI companies for our 2026 Funnel Report. Here’s what happens with 1,000 visitors: Freemium 1,000 visitors...
Customers Can't Define Your Next Big Feature
Hot take that's actually not that hot: Your customers can’t tell you what to build. I know. You've been collecting feature requests. You've got a Notion doc or a Monday board full of them. You send surveys. You read every...
Elon Musk Announces BAAS Beta Test for X Money
Elon Musk confirms the BAAS setup for X money as beta testing has shyly started https://t.co/2l00gddeOG
Personal Relationships Beat Giants: Customers Stay with You
3 years of nights and weekends. $500K in ARR. Finally quits his job. Then Google launched the exact same product. That was Joel Griffith's reality at browserless. He'd built a product while working a full-time job and raising a newborn. Finally...
Veeva Sustains 16% YoY Growth, Beats Guidance
My thoughts on $VEEV Revenue growth has remained around +16% YoY over the last four quarters. Veeva beat its own Q4 revenue guidance by 3.2%, and if it similarly beats the forecast next quarter, growth could accelerate to +16.7%. Subscription services non-GAAP...
Claude AI Critiques Google Workspace CLI’s New Capabilities
I've asked @claudeai: ❯ have a look at the new CLI from Google Workspace https://t.co/3hGuXCM1nX with these new capabilities, would you suggest any changes to the system? Its response ... (see below). Do you guys agree? https://t.co/HrbfqfWnqG
Cloud Migration Boosts Relevance, Not Savings
Modernizing your tech stack and investing in new platforms might not save you money long-term. Moving to the cloud can keep you relevant, but expect increased costs. #CloudMigration #TechCosts https://t.co/A83D0Fky42
AI‑savvy CEOs Keep SaaS Alive, Others Fade
I think the "SaaS is dead" debate is dumb. "SaaS with CEO's who don't get AI" is dead. SaaS with CEO's who are still clearly as in love with technology and agents as they were on Day 1 of their startup will...
Free, Open‑Source Campfire Beats Paid Slack Alternatives
Didjaknow Campfire is totally free and open source? If you're paying big bucks for Slack (or equivalent) it's really worth giving Campfire a shot. And you should see what the folks at https://t.co/e7RtY6XSrx have done with it. Major, major customization....
Four Decision Gates Before Renewing Your LMS
NEW: Do you use an #LMS for #training? Eventually, you'll face contract renewal. But what should you do before you re-up? Take a beat. Here's my renewal advice as a longtime consultant: "Should You Renew Your LMS? Navigating 4 Decision Gates"➡️https://t.co/DQ4MXQo5oG #B2B #ATD...
CIOs Must Enable AI with Automated Guardrails
CIOs can't be the "office of no" on AI. Boards want efficiency, employees want LLMs, SaaS apps ship embedded agents. The only viable path: safe acceleration with automated guardrails, not manual blockers. #AI #GenAI #CIO #SaaS #ITStrategy https://t.co/8OLLAWNSNL
AI Recommends Keeping HubSpot over Costly Rebuild
Turns out HubSpot isn't dead. 💀 I gave Claude Code 30 days of AppSumo software costs ($100,000) total. Asked it to analyze cost, effort, maintenance of replicating all the software we are using. It found ~$500 / month in costs but many of...
Build Your Own AI Sales Team Today
The future is about hybrid teams of humans and AI agents. But even today, you can start building your own personal team of simple, easy-to-use agents. If you work in sales or need to sell (because you're a founder/entrepreneur), you...
Selling Your Business Can Accelerate Its Growth
Selling your business may be the best way to help it grow. Hear what Smita Bakshi, co-founder of zyBooks, has to say on the matter: https://lnkd.in/efcrW6dN #mergersandacquisitions #startupexits #investmentbanking #saasfounders #software #saas #tech #founders #pathtoexit
Delegate, Trust, and Embrace Failure to Avoid Mediocrity
"Consensus is the shortest path to mediocrity." @CloudNotEnough, CEO of @Egnyte ($300M+ revenue, 1,400 employees): Delegate to small teams Trust them fully Accept 2 out of 10 things will fail "If you think you could do a better job, you've either hired wrong or don't...
Brand Power and AEO Replace Dead Referral Channels
Referrals are dead. Google isn't sending many visitors via blue links and social networks are walled gardens. What does this mean for your startup? 1. Brands matter more than ever -- you're larger competitors have advantage here. ...
