Social•Nov 29, 2025
Completed 18 Tasks in a Week with Unstoppable Flow
Knocked 18 tasks off my hit list this week thanks to Unstoppable Flow ✨ ✨ Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn36Ab
By TK Kader
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Stop Chasing Clicks; Focus on Conversions to Fill Pipeline
You’re optimizing for clicks, not conversions—here’s what most founders get wrong (and why their pipeline stays empty).. It’s so common because the entire startup world worships vanity metrics, and it feels safer to chase engagement than face the silence of an...
By TK Kader
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Jeanne De
Tomorrow, Jeanne DeWitt Grosser COO @Vercel, built @Stripe's first sales team https://t.co/j70D3rfpV1
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 29, 2025
One Focus, One Offer, $100K Monthly in a Year
The focus of ONE to get to $100K/months: - One channel - One offer - One sales process - One customer - One year
By Dan Martell
Social•Nov 29, 2025
AI Voiceover App Delivers 90% Margins, $250K Revenue
90% margins on this app! AI text-to-speech app for generating voiceovers in seconds. > $250K TTM revenue > $180K TTM profit > 100% YoY growth Live on @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/HtzQVs42uS https://t.co/in7czbVTl1
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 29, 2025
No Product-Market Fit Fuels Founder Frustration
Year 1: You’re eating ramen. Year 5: You’re still eating ramen. And you’re starting to wonder if this will ever become your retirement plan. It can get pretty anxiety-inducing. You're on social media, and you see no one else stuck like you....
By Adam Robinson
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Profit Without Growth Halves PagerDuty’s Valuation
PagerDuty has fallen to $1.1 Billion market cap … at $500m ARR 2.1x ARR It’s profitable now, but it isn’t growing anymore. Revenue growth has slowed to 4% and new customer count is net 0. The markets reward growth. Efficient growth...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Balance Conviction and Humility: Filter Feedback Effectively
“Founders need conviction strong enough to ignore bad feedback — and humility to hear the good.” 💡 Duncan Barrigan breaks down how to tell the difference in Episode 220 of The SaaS CFO Podcast. Watch 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI https://t.co/A2pAtktSdZ
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Let Top Customers Guide Your Short‑Term Product Decisions
Worst case, just build what your top customers want They can't see too far into the future But they probably have a better sense of what really moves the needle in the short term than you do
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 29, 2025
AI Week: Massive Growth, New Tools, and Security Risks
Any interesting AI news this week? Here are the Top 10 news stories of the week: Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations OpenAI launches a new shopping research tool just in time for Black Friday OpenAI...
By Ray Rike
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Black Friday Hits $6.2B, Traffic Peaks Record
Congratulations to our merchants on another record breaking Black Friday. LFG → Merchants total Black Friday sales were $6.2 billion, up 25% YoY → Edge peaked at 489 million requests per minute. App servers handled a peak of 117 million requests per...
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Break Barriers: Code Like This Publicly
What’s stopping you from coding like this? #saas #buildingpublic https://t.co/9npjRPXHqz
By Jonathan Rintala
Social•Nov 29, 2025
Cyber Week Drives 11% YoY Spend Surge, Flawless Performance
🧵 Cyber Week 6PM PT Update – Nov 28! +11% YoY online spend (and still climbing) 🔥 Zero multi-customer incidents or Sev1s 🙌 AgentForce Marketing Cloud: 7B messages delivered ├ 5.3B emails ├ 1.5B mobile pushes ├ 175M SMS └ 39M OTT Slack is nothing but ❤️🎉...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Future SDRs Will Earn $250k Managing AI Teams
The $250k SDR role is coming. But it won't be remotely the same role as it was from 2005-2015. The $250k "SDR": - Will mange 10+ AI SDR agents - Will >truly< be on the hook for $5m+ of Closed Won - Will be...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Opus 4.5 Delivers 20‑Point Reasoning Leap In
We ran our latest Box AI advanced reasoning eval on Opus 4.5 with medium and high effort and saw a 20 percentage point boost over Opus 4.1. What’s insane to think about is Opus 4.1 came out just 3 months...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Guess Our Pricing, Win Lifetime Free Account
If you can guess the Fizzy free/pricing model on the nose, I'll give you a free account for life once we launch. You can guess 5 times.
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Shopify Hits $5.1 M per Minute at Noon
Peak sales hit $5.1 (!) million per minute right around noon today across the Shopify platform. https://t.co/M5xfYjG7KA
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Solo Founders Now Outpace Teams Thanks to AI
The best performing private companies in 2025 are being built by solo founders. This chart makes it clear. Here’s what this means for startups👇 For years, the default belief in tech was simple: you need co-founders and a big team...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Custom AI Needed Until Generalization Boosts Corporate Efficiency
Let's talk AGI and GDP - and a question I have... I have no idea when AGI is coming or even what the precise definition is. But there's one thing I have strong priors around: large companies have incredibly bespoke processes -...
By Nick Mehta
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Trust Grows When You Deliver Consistently, Every Time
The best way to build trust with people? Do what you say you’ll do. On time. Every time. Consistency communicates character.
By Dan Martell
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Seeking Simple, Consistent UI Without Unwanted Design Elements
CURRENT STATUS: Trying to get really professional web UI/UX out of Codex 5.1, but struggling. Looking to build a mini "design language" for my projects. Current issue: Despite specific instructions to avoid purple accents and buttons and such, it just...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Scribe's $75M Funding Powers Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption
Are you thinking about which processes can benefit from Agentic AI? Have you heard of Scribe? If not, well, you should... Scribe just raised $75 million ($1.3 billion valuation) to support it's release of a new platform to help agentic...
By Ray Rike
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Year‑End Quiet Reveals What You’ve Been Ignoring
There is something unusual about the quiet at the end of the year if you know how to use it. It sharpens your perception and brings forward the things you set aside while moving quickly. Your attention settles on what...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Credibility and Experience Can Secure Pre‑Seed Funding Pre‑MVP
Can you raise a pre-seed round without a product? 👀 On Episode 220 of The SaaS CFO Podcast, Duncan Barrigan (Founder @ Lunos) shares how credibility + experience can secure early funding before the MVP exists. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #AI https://t.co/zmUJnPTNoU
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 28, 2025
No Feedback? Your Product Is the Wrong One
Last week, a founder with 500K LinkedIn followers reached out to me. $6K MRR SaaS that won't budge, and he asked how to incentivize feedback. Me: “Bro, if nobody will take your tool seriously enough to give you feedback, then you're...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Founders Must Remain Hands‑On After Hiring First VP
The biggest mistake you can make as a founder when you hire your first VP of Sales is stepping out of sales I see this again, and again It only works with the very best VPs of Sales Every other first VP of...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 28, 2025
AppSumo Black Friday Bundle Live, Selling Out Fast
AppSumo Black Friday bundle is LIVE featuring @boltdotnew @reclaimai and more. Selling out fast 🏃♂️ 🤘 https://t.co/RcYslb4vOz
By Noah Kagan
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Use a Tough GPT to Sharpen Your 2026 Strategy
I built a custom GPT to help you pressure-test and refine your 2026 business strategy. Crafting a sound growth strategy is hard, and takes time, but you don’t need a 2-day offsite or a pricey consultant to start sharpening your...
By Wes Bush
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Shopify's BFCM Demo Shows 32k Orders per Minute
This is so ridiculously over-the-top! An OS sim with dragable windows, a pinball game that's really playable, and the bonkers sales globe already showing more than 32,000 orders per minute running through Rails. Shopify's BFCM celebration is next level. ...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Repeatable Vertical SaaS Exits: Build, Sell, Repeat
Stuart Faught has been acquired 18 times on @acquiredotcom. No plans to build a unicorn. Just trying to escape a corporate job that felt like Office Space. One tiny product at a time. Dentists. Orthodontists. HVAC. Med spas. Home care. Build vertical SaaS....
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Five Essential Founder Tools for $799 This Black Friday
Let's gooo 🎉 Black Friday is here! Here's your chance to get access to 5 founder essentials. ⭐ FeedHive (AI SMM tool) ⭐ Aidbase (AI support tool) ⭐ LinkDrip (Link tracking tool) ⭐ TinyKiwi (Design tool) ⭐ SignupGate (Fraud prevention tool) You could go with the industry-leading tools...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 28, 2025
AI Automates B2B Receivables, Boosting Speed and Resilience
🚀 New episode! Chatted with Duncan Barrigan, CEO of Lunos, on how AI is transforming B2B receivables. 🔹 AI workers automate messy AR 🔹 Fundraising = resilience 🔹 Fast onboarding, fast value Watch here: https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/l6ugM78FiL
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Consistency and Fundamentals Drive Record ARR Growth
2025 has been about consistency, not shortcuts - and November just became our strongest month of ARR growth in univid's history. What we've learned this year: when we take a step back, zone in on the fundamentals, and stay...
By Jonathan Rintala
Social•Nov 28, 2025
AI Support Isn’t Perfect, But It Beats No Help
New!! Is AI Support Perfect? No. But It’s A Lot Better Than No Support at All https://t.co/lwHOPUf7mm
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 27, 2025
Most Reps Prefer Inbound; Outbound Effort Is Rare
95% of sales rep that have only done inbound ... won't start doing outbound, even if they are missing quota. Not really. They'll pretend a bit, send a few emails, but that's about it. 95% of sales reps that will do...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 27, 2025
Revenue per Employee Beats Headcount as Growth Metric
We need to stop celebrating headcount growth. For the last decade of easy money, "We just doubled the team" was code for "We are successful." Founders felt insignificant if they didn't have a massive org chart to manage. But the...
By Wes Bush
Social•Nov 27, 2025
AI Boosts Skills, Not a Reason to Skip Learning
AI agents are a force multiplier for your skill level in any particular field. This is why the argument of “don’t learn engineering because of AI” is bogus. This will basically be true in most areas of work. Those that...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 27, 2025
Combine Upmarket Scale with Downmarket Simplicity for Success
Go upmarket, you scale faster, with less churn. And if you also stay downmarket too at the same time and keep serving those small customers well? Then you end up with a product that is both super powerful. ...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 27, 2025
Launch LinkedIn Matched Ads & Affiliate Programs Efficiently
This Week in GrowthRise — B2B Marketing Mastermind Recap (Nov 26, 2025) Another insightful session inside the GrowthRise Mastermind for B2B Marketing Leaders ($1M+ ARR). The focus this week: practical strategies to improve LinkedIn advertising, implement affiliate programs and leverage...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 27, 2025
Founders Succeed by Pruning, Not Adding Features
Most founders add. Few subtract. But the real test isn't how many features or products you can stack. It's having the discipline to stop, cut, or walk away before you lose focus. Lessons in saying no: - Not driving revenue? Drop it. - No proof in...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 27, 2025
Scale SaaS on Lean Budgets with AI‑Powered Growth
This Week in SaasRise — CEO Mastermind Recap (Nov 23–26, 2025) Another strong week in the SaasRise CEO & Founder Masterminds. Theme: Doing more with less...leaner budgets, smaller teams, smarter systems and using AI + top talent to scale without...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 27, 2025
20+ AI Agents Show Real Yet Fragile Moats
New!! Our 20+ AI Agents and Their Moats: Real But Weak https://t.co/Mqv9RIodfK
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Profitable 10‑Year DTC Swimwear Brand Hits Market
You don't see DTC startups like this up for sale often! Shopify DTC swimwear brand built over 10 years on @acquiredotcom. > $1.21M TTM revenue > $179K TTM profit > 120K+ social following > 46K+ customers Full listing: https://t.co/O02iOV89uE https://t.co/fUU6KzOgcv
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Adapt or Risk Obsolescence in AI-Driven Sales
AI may not take your job in sales like it has take so many jobs in support already. But if you’re not at least a little worried it will, I think your career is at serious risk. We will still...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Validate PMF with Retention Before Scaling Sales Hires
I keep hearing the same story: A founder raises a $15M Series A. A board member says, “Hire 20 reps in November.” A few months later… all 20 are gone. It still happens, far more often than we like to...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Design Variety Exists, Yet SaaS Stuck in Clones
I've always found watches, gauges, and dials inspiring because they demonstrate there are so many different ways to design and present essentially the same information. Shape, and type, and proximity, and size, and orientation, and color... There are so many ways...
By Jason Fried
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Secure Reliable Term Sheets by Leveraging Early Negotiation
Many first-time founders consider the signing of a term sheet as the signal that the deal is nearing its close and the majority of the terms are set in stone. These founders are then surprised when, during exclusivity, the buyer...
By Michael Lyon