Social•Oct 22, 2025
Key SaaS Metrics to Secure Your Series A
Essential SaaS Metrics for Your Series A Raise My latest post is live. Prep now. Not later. https://lnkd.in/g9AvcStd
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 22, 2025
ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into Global App‑Free Marketplace
Most people think OpenAI is chasing WeChat's playbook. In reality, it's building something even bigger. Here's what's really happening In China, chat became the internet. You can book flights, pay bills, or order dinner inside one message window. That started in 2017 when WeChat...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Feature Bloat Dilutes Focus, Turns Users Into Habit
Somewhere along the way, growth stopped meaning progress and started meaning more. More features. More dashboards. More categories to chase. Every successful product faces this moment. You build something people love. It works. Then comes the temptation to widen the story....
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Accrual Accounting Essential for SaaS Founder Valuations
Many of the private SaaS founders we work with don't realize that recognizing revenue in accordance with principles of GAAP and accrual accounting is not just a practice for publicly traded companies. We've found that SaaS founders, for convenience and in...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Ease Over Features: Treat Focus as a Feature
Users don’t remember how much you can do. They remember how easy it was to do the thing they came for. Focus is a feature. Treat it like one.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Stop Treating AI as Magic—Build the Right Architecture
The "AI black box" is killing momentum in GTM teams. And it's no longer just a technical challenge, it's an architecture problem. That's the idea I explored in Chapter 2 of Ignite Your GTM with AI, a project brought to life by...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Centralized Cloud Stifles Innovation, Yet Still Benefits Us
I discussed the problems with centralizing the internet (on us-east-1 in particular!) with @lexfridman just this summer: How we've strayed from DARPA's original design, forgotten how enjoyable and profitable owning servers can be, yet still can be thankful for the...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Customer Interviews Turned $40k Stagnation Into $100k+
"We don't have time for customer interviews. We need to ship features." This founder was stuck at $40k MRR for 8 months building the wrong things. But after just 12 interviews in 3 weeks they got back on track to $100k+...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Stop SaaS Churn: Proven Strategies CEOs Must Adopt
Top Strategies to Gain Control Over Customer Churn I've been booking calls with SaaS CEOs who are struggling with churn. The patterns are clear: Traditional SaaS platforms are under attack and churn is rising.
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 22, 2025
AI's Next Phase: Industry‑Specific Agents Boost Real‑World Work
We’re going to enter a new phase of AI where the average consumer may not perceive a huge difference in any one model upgrade, but specific industries will feel significant improvements occur. The next phase of AI be about making models...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Seeking Feedback on New AppSumo Homepage Design
Working on a NEW AppSumo homepage. LOVE your thoughts 🌮 https://t.co/akU6SmARYL
By Noah Kagan
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Self‑hosting Cut Costs by $2M+ Yearly
Since 2017, we ended up spending almost $22m on cloud. Peaking at $3.7m in 2021. Now that we're all out, we'll spend a little over a million on everything we own ourselves. Same team size. Better performance. Saving $2m+ per...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Create Shopify Stores Using AI in Lovable
You can now build Shopify stores with AI in Lovable
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Smart Incentives Outperform Discounts; Hyper-Personalization Still Wins
This week's SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap - Oct 21, 2025 We covered five big themes on this week's call...from planning Q4 incentives to AI-powered coding workflows. Here's what went down Holiday Sales Process Planning: Founders shared how they're keeping pipelines...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI Launches the Agentic Enterprise Era
Thrilling day keynoting @Gartner Symposium in Orlando with 10,000 customers! 🌟 The Agentic Enterprise era has begun — where AI empowers people and redefines how organizations think, work, and trust. Still riding the Dreamforce high. 🤖💙 https://t.co/x5TfceOpHf https://t.co/Io8dSuMNw8
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI Agents Turn CRM Into Passive Data Warehouse
AI is a pretty big threat to CRM. Not the need for CRM, but to its value proposition. I didn't totally get it until we deployed 11+ AI Agents. But what they do is push your CRM to the...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Turning Internal Tools Into SaaS Often Guarantees Failure
Every year, I talk to 10-15 companies attempting the same thing: A non-SaaS company (usually an agency or consulting firm) wants to spin off their internal software into its own SaaS business. And honestly? Most of them are setting themselves up for...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Your Consulting Brand Won’t Sell Your SaaS
every year i talk to 10-15 consulting firms trying to spin off a SaaS and the pattern is always the same: they think their brand equity will translate to the new product it won't you're selling to strangers now, and your product needs...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI Coach Turns Prospecting Into Real‑Time Sales Wins
March 15, 2026. San Francisco, CA Sara had finally booked the meeting. A conversation with the Director of Marketing at a major pharmaceutical company. It had taken six weeks of disciplined prospecting to get there. A long night of preparation was...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Help Shape Our B2B Sales Deep Dive Podcast
I’ve got a deep dive pod with @jjen_abel coming up on all things enterprise sales. What’s tripping you up most or confusing when it comes to b2b sales that you’d love us to cover?
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Take Acquisition Offers Seriously—High Valuations Favor Selling
Dear Founders, If you have acquisition interest from a bigger co, take it very seriously. If you don’t sell, that bigger co will buy your competitor or build. Not great for you. Also, valuations are sky high right now,...
By Brian Halligan
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Simple Slack Email Tool Generates $22K Profit Autopilot
I love simple tools like this on @acquiredotcom. Manage team emails directly inside Slack. > $22K TTM revenue > $20K profit > 200+ customers > Runs on autopilot > Lean, profitable, dead simple Full listing: https://t.co/b3BlAnxTAb https://t.co/1DDfmVFl2z
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Your Lead Magnet Fails Because It Lacks Value Promise
The real reason your lead magnets aren't attracting buyers (it's not traffic).. 1. Weak Lead Magnet Promise Again and again, I watched brilliant Startup Founders create lead magnets that looked beautiful but missed the mark on what their real buyers craved. They...
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Why Most Founder Lead Magnets Fail on Social
Lead Magnets are one of the most effective ways to get inbound leads that fill your pipeline (even today in 2025). But most Founders who are trying to use organic social get lead magnets wrong. Here's the real reason...
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Winning Marketplace Vendors Embrace Service Delivery Partners
After that fight, it becomes a fight of Marketplaces to reach customers and scale solutions. “The most successful vendors in the marketplace will be the ones that understand how to include service delivery partners as part of their marketplace strategy.”
By Tiffani Bova
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Benchmark Your Pitch Deck Against 4,000 Startups
Wondering how you stack up? Try the new https://t.co/iXj7ZJdxfx VC Pitch Deck Analyzer -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a We’ll share how you stack up against 4,000+ other start-ups. And we’ll provide you honest and confidential feedback on how to do better. https://t.co/YtZxaYnamq
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Ship Often; Each Release Sharpens Your Judgment
The more often you ship, the stronger your judgment gets. Every release is a rep. You learn how your instincts hold up against reality. You get feedback while it still matters. Teams that wait to ship are really waiting to learn.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI Development Demands Hypothesis‑First, Fast Iterative Launches
Every AI feature is a hypothesis, not a promise. That’s the biggest shift from SaaS to AI. In SaaS, you built toward predictability. You learned first, then launched because outcomes were deterministic. If you designed it right, it worked the same...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI Boosts Marketing Efficiency with New SparkToro Feature
"You need to use AI to make your marketing tasks more efficient." - everyone's boss right now I've been notably skeptical of AI, but begrudgingly admit... sometimes it's helpful. So, we built a "Take Action" SparkToro feature. If you're up to...
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Built 7 Apps in 100 Days, Saved $200K Annually
.@Replit asked me to do a deep dive on "How I Built 7 Production Apps in 100 Days (And Saved $200K/Year)" It's true. A thread 🧵 https://t.co/i319llfN72
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Human Nature Stays Constant; Master Attention to Future‑proof Business
Algorithms change fast. Human nature doesn’t. Wanna future-proof your business? Learn the science of attention and persuasion so you can build an audience of future buyers.
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
That All‑Too‑Familiar Moment We All Recognize
You know the one.
By Swarnendu De
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Don’t Cripple Free Plans—Be Honest About Pricing.
Having a free plan but making it very limited/borderline unusable doesn't work. You're setting up a negative anchor with your users. - They thought they found a free tool. - They figure out they have to pay to really use it. = disappointed users. And...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 21, 2025
SF Tech Firms Adopt New Ideas Far Easier than Others
Getting tech companies in San Francisco to try your new thing is A LOT easier than convincing the other 99% of companies out there.
By Brian Halligan
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Great Leaders Place People in Roles Where They Thrive
I came across a Wall Street Journal article about the single trait that sets great bosses apart. It turns out that the best leaders share a common strength: they help people find roles where they can thrive. The research showed...
By Tiffani Bova
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Create a Safe Environment so Talent Thrives without You
If you lead high performers, ask yourself one question this week: Would they still thrive here if I disappeared? If not, build the environment that makes their best work inevitable and then step back. Loyalty can’t be demanded. It’s a mirror of how...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 21, 2025
When Rules Turn Into Walls, Innovation Stalls
When Rules Become Walls Every product starts with an idea that works so well it turns into a rule. The longer that rule holds, the harder it becomes to question. For Crazy Egg, the rule was simple: keep analytics honest and easy...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 21, 2025
When Ideas Become Rules, Questioning Becomes Hard
Every product starts with an idea that works so well it turns into a rule. The longer that rule holds, the harder it becomes to question.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Focus on Customers, Churn, and Leadership to Grow
Best things to do when .. you don't know what to do: 1/ More time w/existing customers. Zoom w/5 week, meet 5/mo IRL 2/ Hire 1 great VP 3/ Drive down churn. You grow faster even w/o more leads 4/ Join more sales calls....
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Scaling Without a Team: Lessons From MicroConf Europe
$2M ARR. 2 co-founders. 0 employees. At MicroConf Europe, Kevin Sahin shared why scaling ScrapingBee that way was a huge mistake. In this week's episode, Laura Sprinkle and I break down our 8 key takeaways from MicroConf Europe in Istanbul just a...
By Rob Walling
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Bootstrapped SaaS Uses Profits to Acquire Note‑Taking App
closed $25m deal this morning structure is wild lemlist ($40m ARR) just used its 30% profits (bootstrapped)... to acquire a note taking app. granola, fathom space i called Lemlist CEO to get deal terms: https://t.co/KMhx4YZ2Mz
By Nathan Latka
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Align Market, Product, GTM to Break Growth Plateau
When the cold emails aren't working. When the ADs aren't converting. When the deals are dragging on for ever. Do you have a Market problem? A Product problem? Or, a Sales & Marketing problem? Yes. At the intersection of a Great Market + Differentiated Product + Effective...
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 21, 2025
SignupGate Stops 8000 Bad Sign‑ups in 3 Weeks
This month, I've prevented 147 dirty sign-ups to enter my systems. These sign-ups were likely to result in: - Chargebacks. - DDos attacks. - Misuse of our products. 🛡️ But SignupGate took care of it. We launched SignupGate just 3 weeks ago. And already, it's handled: - +1.2M...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Follow a 14‑Day PLG Roadmap to $10M ARR
Most product-led companies will never get to $10M+ ARR. But the ones that do have one thing in common. Their products sell themselves. Their conversion rates are dialed in. Their growth compounds month after month. Most importantly, they're the obvious choice in their...
By Wes Bush
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Serverless Python Hits 250 MB Limit, Trim Dependencies
CURRENT STATUS: Pushing up against the Vercel 250M size limit on a serverless Python function (in my case, app.py for a Flask app). This used to be a 50M limit (which is why I hosted my Python apps elsewhere). When...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI Voice Boosts Ecommerce Revenue, Solving Phone Conversion Gap
Proud @saastrfund is joining the round for @Consio_AI and the team building the AI voice layer for ecommerce!! Here's why we invested: 1⃣The Obvious Problem: Phone Converts Better Every ecommerce brand knows phone calls convert 3-5x better than web. But staffing a phone...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
AI-Driven VC Matchmaking for Fundable Startups Only
We’re launching something different at SaaStr AI. VC Matchmaking that actually works. Because most founders are pitching the wrong VCs. Or pitching before they’re ready. Join the waitlist → https://t.co/x5NqYcTMbt Here’s how it works: 1️⃣: You upload your pitch Real revenue. Real metrics. Real traction....
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Should Payment Processing Revenue Count Toward ARR?
Can I count payment processing revenue as ARR? The next edition of the SaaS Metrics School podcast drops at 5am PT on Tuesday. https://t.co/a1PSYVb3ph https://t.co/2XzN1uUI1O
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Payment Processing Revenue Can Count as ARR When Predictable
Tech CFOs have been asking a great question lately. Can payment processing revenue be counted as ARR? Let's break it down. When your SaaS or AI platform allows customers to transact (e.g., collect payments) and you receive a percentage of that payment volume...
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 21, 2025
Launch of SuperMe: My AI Persona Powered by Pinterest Experience
For years, I've loved writing and talking about building enduring social products, marketplaces, and AI, not to mention the lessons learned from building at Pinterest. You've asked questions, debated ideas, and pushed me to unpack complex frameworks. Now, I'm playing...
By Sarah Tavel