Social•Nov 3, 2025
Use Invoice Data, Not Rev Rec, for Accurate Retention
Is your rev rec messing up your retention? 📉 Learn how to clean your retention metrics with a pro forma MRR schedule — and why invoice data is your real source of truth. Watch here 🎥 https://t.co/bII7ixXC6d #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/5d7ZmKnORA
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Last Chance to Sponsor SaaStr AI London
Want leads? Want to meet 2,500+ of The Best in B2B + AI? It's the LAST CHANCE to sponsor SaaStr AI London Dec 1-2! Join the best of the best, from @Replit to @DuploCloud, from @cleverbridge to @happyfoxchat, from @AvaArtisan to @remote!! ...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Synthesia Chooses $200M Funding Over $3B Adobe Offer
Synthesia just raised $200M at a $4B valuation after rejecting Adobe’s $3B offer. Here’s how they're building for the long game👇
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Turning Rejection Into $4B Valuation: Synthesia’s Long‑Game Play
Synthesia just raised $200M at a $4B valuation after rejecting Adobe's $3B offer. Here's how they're building for the long game Some context: Back in 2017, Victor Riparbelli left Copenhagen for London. AI wasn't a hot topic. VR was. He didn't know what to...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Keep Equity, Use Revenue Financing for Smarter Exits
The startup world has been selling founders a lie. The lie: be grateful for any check, valuation is everything, giving up control is normal. This mindset benefits investors, not you. But some founders are waking up and choosing a different path. A smarter path. Like...
By Nathan Latka
Social•Nov 3, 2025
9 Proven LinkedIn Content Ideas for B
Every B2B founder I talk to wants to start posting on Linkedin. But 95% of them have no idea where to start. Here's a list of 9 content ideas that helped me go viral and generate 50M views on Linkedin...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Dream Big First, Then Build With Available Resources
Melanie Perkins (co-founder and CEO of Canva) on "Column B" thinking: "There are two ways of planning. Imagine you you're building a castle on the hill. One way is imagining what would be the most magical, wonderful, mythical, castle you...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 3, 2025
TalkStories Lets Founders Grow Audiences by Speaking Daily
A few months ago, @MrWillNelson had a simple idea: What if founders could grow their audience on social media just by talking? That idea became TalkStories, a tool that calls you daily, captures your insights, and turns them into posts. I’ve used the...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Startups Advance in Small Leaps, Not Silver Bullets
Startups are 1 step back, 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 2 steps forward, etc. From the outside, HubSpot might seem like a smooth up-and-to-the-right story. It belies what actually goes on inside. The best way I’d describe HubSpot is two...
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Q3 Sees Surge in Martech and Adtech Deals
Terence Kawaja and the team at LUMA Partners share the latest data on #martech and #adtech M&A activity from Q3. Overall, the market for martech acquisitions has remained healthy. Although, given how many pre-2020 martech companies are looking for an exit,...
By Scott Brinker
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Scale SaaS with Math-Driven B2B Paid Ads
How to Build a B2B Ad Strategy That Actually Scales If you want predictable growth in your SaaS, there's one skill that changes everything: mastering paid ads. When you know your unit economics and can acquire customers at a cost that...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 3, 2025
First $20K MRR Transforms Life; Optimize Location to Cut Costs
100% agree. For me, $0 - $20K MRR was game-changing! Anything after $20K MRR is making my stock portfolio grow faster, but I can't feel any difference day-to-day. With a bit of planning and picking the right country to live in, you...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Assistant UI Dominates AI Chat Interface Market
New!! AI App of the Week: Assistant UI – The React Library That’s Eating the AI Chat Interface Market https://t.co/Yg3QisTxnX
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 3, 2025
AI Agents Unlock 10‑100× Productivity, Enabling Any Project
This is obviously an extreme example of the productivity gains with AI agents. We can debate the numbers on this. Maybe it’s 10X or 100X vs 1000X, but the direction is correct. What’s going to happen is we’ll just completely...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Market Soars, Yet B2B Deals Remain Hard
New!! “Nasdaq Reaches Another ATH. Nvidia Tops $5T. But Navan’s IPO and JAMF’s $2B Exit Show B2B Still Isn’t Easy.” https://t.co/T5c5VRn0Sp https://t.co/T5c5VRn0Sp
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 3, 2025
30+ Global Reader‑Organized Meetups Spark Community Momentum
Over 30 community meetups scheduled this month all over the world. From Amsterdam to Bangkok, to Dubai to Taipei. All grassroots and self-organized by readers. Unreal. https://t.co/LCHesYCxbN
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Don't DIY Marketing Automation—Use Dedicated Tools, Not Code
So I've been vibe coding for about 4 months and shipped 10 apps and now I'm doing something I didn't want to do. I'm starting to build our own vibe'd marketing automations (on top of Resend). If there's one thing...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 2, 2025
AI BDR Generates 25% of Pipeline in 60 Days
Update: 🤖25% of our pipeline in past 60 days was from our AI BDR Not 100%. But up from 0% 90 days ago.
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Fix Your Broken GTM Strategy, Not One Hack
If your deals aren’t closing… If your demo calendar is empty… If your outbound DMs and Emails are hearing crickets… Then it’s time to fix your broken Go-To-Market Strategy. Now there’s tons of advice out there on that one new growth hack.
By TK Kader
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Dream Big, Build Incrementally: Canva’s Path to $42B
"I don't want to look at the bricks around me and ask how high I can stack them. I want to design the most magical, wonderful, mythical castle on a hill and then figure out how to build it." Melanie...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Free Plan Claim Clashes with Credit‑card Request
confusing. copy clearly says "this plan is free" so why do they need my cc? low-trust onboarding experience @AppTweak https://t.co/A65vSbb3hm
By Nathan Latka
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Speed Wins: Free Your Calendar to Scale
Founders at $5m+ revenue move fast. Speed wins. You can’t move fast if your calendar is back to back all day Ryan is smart
By Nathan Latka
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Short‑term Ad Win, but No Scalable Growth
I got this spot for FounderStack for $699. So far, it's generated: - +400 website visits - 1 sale ($799) So I'm breakeven. And it's only been 3 days. 2 more sales, and the ROAS is similar to the ads I run on Facebook, and I...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Built Our Own Better Partner Platform After Rewardful Fell Short
I signed up for Rewardful. But they didn't have the features we needed. After a quick chat with support: They didn't have any plans to add it. So we're now vibe coding our own! (And honestly, ours is already better 😂) Stay tuned, we're about to...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 2, 2025
Free AI Analyzer Grades Your VC Pitch Deck Instantly
Wondering if your VC pitch is good enough? SaaStr AI will tell you. Try the FREE SaaStr AI VC Pitch Deck Analyzer here -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a Try it now. We'll grade it, tell you the exact odds you'll get funded, and...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 2, 2025
AI Agents Unlock Unlimited SaaS Consumption for Enterprises
This is a great anecdote from Atlassian. The fear everyone was that AI agents would somehow compress the role of enterprise software. Generally the opposite will be true, assuming the software company executes effectively (either startups or existing players). Enterprise...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 1, 2025
Customers Prefer Better AI Sales Reps—Deploy Yours Directly
- Do customers even care if your sales reps is AI or human? Not if the AI is better than a human - #1 top advice to get going on AI + GTM: deploy an AI agent -- yourself. ...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 1, 2025
Leadership Improves When You Stop Pretending to Know Everything
For a very long time as CEO of HubSpot, I thought I was supposed to have all the answers. Life got easier for everyone (especially me) when I got over that.
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 1, 2025
Scale Smart: Hire Slow, Promote Internally, Balance Talent
A lot of startups get stuck in the mud between 200 and 2000 employees. Here are my tips: 1. Ye old "hire slow and fire fast" is still true. 2. Push off the director layer as long as you can....
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 1, 2025
VCs Must Choose Between Steady Growth and AI Frenzy
Is Triple Triple Double Double good enough anymore? $1m ARR -> $3m ARR -> $9m ARR -> $18M ARR -> $36m ARR -> rocketship Here's the thing. On the one hand, of course it is. That compounds to 50%+ growth...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 1, 2025
AI Supercharges Product Prototyping, Boosts Ideation Speed
Seeing more and more product managers use AI for showing functional product prototypes. It’s accelerating the ideation phase of a product by probably 5-10X. Partly this is because you can show off an idea much more quickly, which gets the...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 1, 2025
Agentic AI Boosts FP&A Efficiency with Real‑World Use Cases
Agentic AI and FP&A? Let's find out! Join me for an exclusive live demo and conversation with FutureView Systems, showcasing their new Agentic AI Platform B*EZ, built specifically for FP&A and controller teams. We'll explore real, tactical AI use cases that are already reshaping how finance teams...
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 1, 2025
Founders Fail When They Chase Trends Over Real Pain
Too many founders fail because they build what’s really trendy rather than what’s really painful to customers.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 1, 2025
AI Week Highlights: OpenAI Recap, Microsoft Deal, NVIDIA Surge
Welcome to this week's edition of AI to ROI: Just the News Edition I write the newsletter twice weekly with my friend Peter Buchanan Our Saturday edition is called "AI to ROI: Just the News" Our Tuesday morning edition includes four sections: ...
By Ray Rike
Social•Nov 1, 2025
Bootstrapped SaaS Sold for $3.5M Proves Modest Success Works
We helped a founder sell their bootstrapped startup for $3,500,000 this week at @acquiredotcom. Another life changing outcome. Proof you don’t need a billion dollar startup to win. A profitable SaaS is enough. Huge congrats to the founder and to the next one...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 1, 2025
AI Slows SaaS, but Adds Massive Functionality
SaaS apps are much, much slower since AI It's OK because they do much, much more But not something I would have expected 24+ months ago
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Cloud‑migrated DuckDB Slashes Podcast Processing Costs
I sleep better knowing my agents work through the night. Less work for me in the morning. My podcast processor transcribes & analyzes conversations. I started on my laptop, needed a little database to collect podcast data & metadata, & booted...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples at Week’s Close
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Weekly Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/479woZt0Ew
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 31, 2025
AI Agents Will Shrink Software Seat Counts
AI is coming for your seats. And it doesn't even mean to. What do I mean? We've gone from 0 to 12 AI Agents at little team SaaStr this year, and as part of that ... we don't need...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Founders Quickly Become the Bottleneck, Not the Visionary
I have a long-running list of these surprises for first-time Founders and CEOs. Here are a few that weren’t on Brian’s list. 1. Your calendar becomes everyone else’s calendar. Every gap gets filled. 2. The hardest conversations are never on the calendar....
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Completed 25 Tasks Using Unstoppable Flow This Week
Slightly lighter this week. Knocked 25 tasks off my hit list this week thanks to Unstoppable Flow. Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn36Ab
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Segmented Margins Turn P&L Into CFO Superpower
Margins by Revenue Stream Is Your CFO Superpower If you offer 2 or more revenue types, you must construct your P&L in the proper format. I can't tell you how many times I've corrected the gross profit and margins by revenue stream...
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 31, 2025
New AppSumo Deal Page Boosts Sales 38%
Testing NEW deal pages for AppSumo. One is up 38%... https://t.co/l7ZXNKwXkt
By Noah Kagan
Social•Oct 31, 2025
ChatGPT's Rapid Rise Could Rival Google by 2030
ChatGPT hit 1B+ daily searches 9 years faster than Google. At this pace, it could match Google by 2030. Here's how the future of search is changing Google still dominates with about 14 billion daily searches. ChatGPT handles around 2.5 billion prompts...
By Ryan Allis