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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
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
20+ AI Agents Show Real Yet Fragile Moats
New!! Our 20+ AI Agents and Their Moats: Real But Weak https://t.co/Mqv9RIodfK
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Persistence Pays Off: 9‑Year Journey to $25M ARR
I found a letter I wrote to myself in May 2016. 9 years later, it breaks my heart to read it. I wrote down exactly what I wanted: $25M ARR, lean team, freedom, and the lie I couldn’t afford while stuck...
Four Tests to Verify Your VP’s Effectiveness
Did you hire a good enough VP? 4 part test: - who great did they hire in the first 60 days? - did their #1 key metric improve? - did they take part of the job off your plate? - does the team believe? If they...
Curated Daily Insights Cut Through Founder Noise
I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me...
Founders Need Daily, High‑Signal Newsletter Amid Content Overload
I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me for...
M&A Surge Masks Low‑value, AI‑driven Seed Exits
I'm having some major cognitive dissonance about startup M&A. It *seems* to be 🌶️ with a record number of acquisitions according to Peter Walker . Yet Jason M. Lemkin & others are pointing out that in SaaS "the exits... are...
Repeat Your Message, Build Trust and Referrals
Repetition builds riches. Here’s what actually happens in your audience’s brain when you repeat yourself: → Repetition builds familiarity, and familiarity builds trust (mere exposure effect) → Hearing something over time makes it stick in memory (spacing effect) → Your audience starts attributing that...
Solo Founders: Bet on Three Small, Fast‑validated Ideas
Solo founders: stop betting it all on one idea. Run a portfolio of 3 small bets. Pick fast. Validate faster. Here's the playbook: 1) The rule - 3 small bets > 1 big bet. - Target: $1–3k MRR each. 2) Pick bets - Reachable audience. - Already knows the...
Onboarding Should Deliver Value, Not Endless Feature Tours
Hot take: User onboarding is not about education. Most onboarding flows try to teach users about different product features. They shouldn't. Instead, they should get users to experience value as fast as possible. Here's what happens in most cases: You...
AI Boosts Coding, but Human Prompting Remains Essential
It’s clear that AI agents are going to get better and better at coding. We’re going to be able to give them much bigger tasks, and reviewing that work will get easier and easier over time (both due to reliability,...
Rethink GTM Pricing, Hiring, Compensation for AI Scale
Office Hours: GTM Leadership in the AI Era: Pricing, Hiring, and Compensation Thursday, December 11 5:30–7:30 PM PDT As AI-native companies scale, GTM leaders are being forced to rethink long-standing assumptions about pricing, hiring, incentives, and how revenue organizations should operate in a...
Rethinking GTM Pricing, Hiring, Compensation for AI Scale
Office Hours: GTM Leadership in the AI Era: Pricing, Hiring, and Compensation Thursday, December 11 5:30–7:30 PM PDT As AI-native companies scale, GTM leaders are being forced to rethink long-standing assumptions about pricing, hiring, incentives, and how revenue organizations should...
SaaStr AI VC Secures 682+ Startup‑VC Matches This Month
Then ready to get funded? SaaStr AI VC will help connect you with top B2B + AI VCs We’ve already made 682+ matches this month! Check that our here -> https://t.co/ZgZ3zuf6hP https://t.co/0zbn4irJYL
Find the Perfect B2B AI VC with One Prompt
And not sure which VCs are right for your start-up? Ask SaaStr AI. In one prompt, we’ll tell you which of 372+ top B2B+AI VCs are best for your startup -> https://t.co/3JyImX3jMX https://t.co/bUh3OE9DWf
Clarity Beats Speed: Narrative Accelerates Growth
Marketing is the new bottleneck. I tossed that out as a quick thought. The replies came fast. The private messages went deeper. People wanted to hear more and understand exactly what I meant, so I turned it into a thread....
Seeking Early‑Stage PM for Stealth AI MarTech Startup
Any talented Product Managers with experience in MarTech/SalesTech want to work together? I'm building a new product (currently in stealth mode) and looking to make our first hire on the product side after the holidays. This person: • Loves the...
Delegate $10 Tasks, Reclaim 30 Hours Weekly
I was spending 30+ hours a week on stuff that has zero impact on growth. Scheduling meetings. Updating spreadsheets. Missing my kids' bedtime because I was answering emails until midnight... That’s when it hit me: I didn’t need more hustle....
Deep Search Instantly Surfaces Hidden Ticket Insights
Deep Search from @yuma_dot_ai is a new way to access Customer Voice. Brands struggle to find patterns in thousands of support tickets, so critical issues go unnoticed for days. Deep Search uses a ChatGPT-like interface to scan the entire ticket cloud in...
Target the Goldilocks Zone: Mid‑Maturity Enterprise AI Customers
Just spoke to a friend who founded an early-stage AI startup (yes, this was an actual conversation - not one of those LinkedIn “I was just chatting with…” cold opens 😭). We were talking about a real dilemma: enterprise buyers...
Marketing Is a Never‑Ending Pinball Game
PING! You ship that super interesting, well-written blog post. People love it. Traffic spikes, comments roll in… then things start to settle down. PING! You fire off a hot take on LinkedIn. Debate flares up in the comments, your audience...
Open‑source Serverless AI Platform with Instant GPU Inference
Beam (@beam_cloud) is an open source serverless platform for AI apps. Run GPU inference, background jobs, and sandboxes with ultrafast boot times and no vendor lock-in. https://t.co/xlMRBl43Yr https://t.co/b0MGB5k5TU
MicroConf Talk Powers SaaS Playbook Pricing Section
@ronzilla @_lhermann Thanks! Also did a talk at MicroConf that covers all of these questions: https://t.co/nWzaXhZLyI The SaaS Playbook section on pricing is an adaptation of this talk, with a bit more info included.
Create Custom Video Detection Models in Minutes
Building video detection models used to take months. With @DragoneyeAI's interactive playground, you can now build and deploy custom video models in minutes - simply describe what you want to see. https://t.co/WvW8IiNUTa https://t.co/QfSw34I4GQ
Build a Dream Team Before Hiring an Investment Bank
What key things should founders look for when hiring an investment bank to help sell their business or raise capital? Most software founders don't know exactly who needs to be involved in order to pull off a successful sale or...
Building Great Products Is Hard: Bloat, Maintenance, Integration
@jasonlk Taste is hard (hello feature bloat) Maintaining is hard Legit integrations are hard
Coach, Don’t Dictate: Use GROW to Empower Teams
My top takeaways from executive coach Rachel Lockett : 1. The biggest skill gap in new leaders is knowing when to coach vs. when to tell people what to do. When you constantly provide answers, you train your team to...
Vibe Coding May Intensify Pricing and GTM Pressure
@jasonlk Agreed. Do you think tho that the threat of vibe coding plus ability for more competitors to emerge will create more pricing and gtm pressure?
AI Landing Page Tools Score Poorly in Real Audits
We scored every major AI landing page analyzer across the same criteria we use for real CRO audits. Comprehensiveness. Specificity. Originality. Realistic implementation. Correctness. The highest score was 5/15. Several landed at zero. This isn’t a knock on AI. It’s a reflection of...
AI Video Agents Halve Downtime, Boost Resolution Speed
Congrats to Cerrion on their $18M Series A! Factory downtime costs manufacturers $1.4T annually (up 319% since 2019). Cerrion's AI video agents monitor production lines in real time, detecting quality issues, safety risks, and process deviations—then intervene automatically. Manufacturers like Unilever and...
Net Revenue Retention: The Ultimate SaaS Success Indicator
“NRR is the metric that matters most.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) breaks down why Net Revenue Retention is the clearest signal for a billing infra company with long sales cycles + expansion potential. Ep 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #SaaS #AI https://t.co/WYxJradGbn
Chat UI Limits AI; Context‑First Unlocks Power
Chat made AI feel real for the first time. A blank box. A question. A response that sounded alive. It created the belief that conversation was the natural interface for intelligence. But the chat window is the smallest view of...
