Unused $19 SaaS Subscriptions Drain Global Economy
How much of the global economy is powered by $19/month SaaS tool subscriptions that never get used, never get cancelled
Productivity Lift: Fast Indicator of AI ROI
Are you being challenged to prove the ROI of your AI budget for 2026? The answer is most likely "yes" - so below may be a little help... As enterprises adopt AI more aggressively, Productivity Lift has emerged as an...
Leaving the Cloud Stalls at Storage, Auth, Firewall
I'm moving off the cloud. I started earlier this year, and I'm now 80% done. ✅ It's saving me tens of thousands. ✅ It's giving me vendor freedom. ✅ It's making my lifetime offer more viable. The problem is... I'm now stuck. AWS still owns me on...
Existing Customers Give You a Launch Advantage
@ajhodls The flip side is you have a customer base that you know well and it already buying from you That gives you an edge building another great product to sell them
SaaStr AI VC Apps Reach 800K Uses in 60 Days
@bogdaniordache Probably not. Still, the flip side? Our SaaStr AI VC apps have already been used 800,000+ times in < 60 days https://t.co/XOGfNpEPiG
SaaS Maintenance Demands Too Much Time Weekly
@ama_poundz It’s just not realistic to spend hours a week maintaining all your SaaS products, adding new features, fixing things that break, etc.
Customers Sign up Anywhere—From Airports to Bed
6 unexpected places where I've signed new customers this year.. - Airport before boarding in Singapore - Tiny hotel room in Kosovo - Freezing cold coworking space in Bali - Small mountain village in Mallorca - Home office in Stockholm - In bed sleeping (self-serve is...
Most Services Aren’t Truly Multi‑DC, Even when Claimed
@StouderRory The vast majority of services aren't properly multi-DC. And the ones who think they are, usually aren't, when it's actually needed.
AI‑Native SaaS Leads Massive Funding and Acquisitions
This Week in SaaS — Nov 18–21, 2025 AI-native SaaS continues to dominate fundraising, M&A and public markets. From $900M rounds in multimodal 3D engines to multi-billion-dollar observability and SEO acquisitions, the market is rewarding founders who embed AI into...
Deals Close Anywhere: Momentum Thrives in Unexpected Spots
6 unexpected places where I've signed new customers this year.. Progress in SaaS is rarely linear. You grind for months, nothing moves - and then suddenly momentum hits. Our best months seem to correlate with taking a step back, working...
Buyer Journeys Are Pinball, Not Linear Funnels
The marketing "funnel" isn't dead, at least not from the perspective of site owners seeking an analogy of the business-side experience. BUT... if you're seeking analogies for buyer behavior, the funnel really doesn't work anymore. IMO it's more like a...
High‑Profit 3M‑User Portfolio Hits $1M Revenue
An amazing portfolios of apps just landed on @acquiredotcom > $1M TTM revenue > $595K TTM profit > 2.95M monthly active users Lean team, diversified revenue mix, and strong recurring base. Love rare portfolio listings like this: Check more here: https://t.co/iqotQkQkUE https://t.co/aAtqSU3dIs
Stop These ‘Best Practices’ Sabotaging 2025 Lead Generation
The 7 ‘best practices’ that are killing your lead gen results in 2025. 1. Copying Competitors’ Funnels I watched Startup Founders obsessively replicate whatever funnel was trending on LinkedIn. The result was always the same: generic messaging, cold leads, and a sinking...
Master SaaS Revenue Forecasting with 4 Data Sources
Join me live on Tuesday! How I forecast subscription, usage, and services revenue. Plus, grab my forecast model template. You'll walk away with the 4 key SaaS finance data sources that create an accurate forecast. And live attendees will receive...
Claude Opus 4.5 Streamlines Tool Calling, Cuts Token Bloat
BREAKING: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5 Several of the upgrades are squarely at people like me, developers building agents. I'm particularly impressed with how elegantly they handle one of the biggest issues developers are dealing with: tool calling. MCP is...
Shared Mental Model Ensures Consistent AI Adoption Across Teams
You cannot ask a thousand people to adopt AI and expect consistency. You need a shared mental model. Without it, the company’s output becomes a collage of mismatched assumptions.
Data, Not UI, Is AI's True Enterprise Gold
AI's true gold for the enterprise isn't in the UI or the model—they're both commodities—what breathes life into AI is the apps, data & metadata that describes the data to the model and then deliver value—just like oxygen for us....
Treat Love Like a Startup: Vision, Risk, Commitment
I’ve built and sold companies worth millions. But the best decision I ever made was choosing the right person to build life with.... I’ve done the big deals. I’ve lived the founder rollercoaster. I’ve cashed the checks. But none of...
Clarity Fuels Momentum: Faster Decisions, Shorter Meetings
Clarity makes things move. When people know what they’re doing and why, decisions get lighter. Work connects. Progress becomes visible. Teams stall when clarity fades. They slow down because no one can explain the plan in a sentence. You can...
AI Coworker Saves Tax Accountants 90 Minutes Daily
.@Combinely is building an AI coworker for tax teams. It uses firms’ existing tools to proactively handle inboxes, client questions, and return reviews— saving accountants 90 minutes every day. Congrats @Tom_inv & @ArthurGranacher! https://t.co/7QdOSPxS0U https://t.co/OydTCWWSar
AI Landing Page Tools Still Miss Critical Nuance
We’re entering a new phase in how people find products. More searches start inside LLMs. Fewer people land directly on your site. Which means the visitors who do make it through are more intentional than ever. This raises the bar...
Resilience and Vision Drive Infra Tech Success Without Connections
“This isn’t a 3-month tryout.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) shares how building infra tech—without connections and facing countless nos—required deep resilience and a long-term vision. Ep 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #SaaS https://t.co/HqyvyV3dZq
QuickBooks Leads, New Contenders Emerge in Accounting Survey
Quick preview of the Accounting software category. QuickBooks is again on top. But some surprising players are filling in the other colors. Any guesses? If you work in software, SaaS, or AI, please take a moment to participate in my...
Databricks on AWS Now 10x Easier to Deploy
This is super awesome, it just became 10x easier to setup Databricks on AWS!
Real User Touchpoints Spark Honest, Faster Innovation
Every product begins as a question you don’t yet know how to answer. You can guess. You can model. You can argue. But none of it substitutes for the small shock you feel the first time the product touches a...
Predict Cash Flow Impact Before Hiring or Projects
So excited to show off how we handle scenario planning for clients of @Profit Labs!! You can now model exactly what happens to your cash flow when you hire that next person, lose a big client, or take on a...
ChatGPT Leads Impactful GTM Tools; AI Agents Rise
If you're searching for GTM tech this Black Friday, start with these: Maja and I asked our communities about their favorite B2B GTM tools in 2025 including which were "most impactful" and which are "must try". 195 software GTM leaders...
Start Simple: Test 5 Pricing Ladders with One‑click Upgrades
Pricing a niche SaaS is hard. Especially while you're still figuring out who loves it and why. You want to test different pricing strategies early. Here are 5 ladders to test: 1) Usage Trigger: events, runs, records. Show a live bar. Offer top-ups. 2) Seats Trigger: active team...
Build Outbound Email Infrastructure Before Crafting Copy
Build Your Outbound Email Infrastructure The Right Way 📬 Most teams obsess over copy and sequences. But none of that matters if your emails never reach the inbox. Outbound does not start with messaging. It starts with domains, inboxes, warm...
Comparing 1999 to Today: Key Differences Uncovered
Because I'm old and was around in 1999, people ask me the differences. Here's what I've got. What am I missing? https://t.co/BBkuxy3iXw
Customer Obsession Fuels Intuit’s Relentless Innovation
Everything I learned from interviewing Intuit's CEO. https://t.co/mPBJsX4VXB
New AI Agent Adds Visual Timeline to Company Research
It's shipping Sunday! (Not all days are Shipping Sundays for me -- but today is). As you may recall, a few weeks ago, I launched a simple but super-useful (at least for me) AI agent called CompanyResearch .ai The premise...
AI Music SaaS Hits $621K ARR, Profitable
This is the future of music right here. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI music creation SaaS that turns vocals and text into full songs with voice. > 3M+ users > $621K ARR > $559K TTM profit > 80% margins Bootstrapped and profitable. Full listing: https://t.co/Obvm9zKtc6 https://t.co/W1RRxUq9Oj
Frustration with Billing Tools Birthed Alguna's Solution
“This company started from pure frustration.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) shares how repeated billing/tooling pain across companies—and no solution that worked—sparked the product that became Alguna. Ep 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #SaaS #AI https://t.co/srkKqglNpQ
Practical AI Agent Trends for Marketing 2024‑2025
SPOILER ALERT: our new 100+ page "Martech for 2026" about to be released has a lot to say about #AI #agents in #marketing and #martech . Before you do the LinkedIn equivalent of swiping left, let me assure you that...
AI Boom Thrives, Business Models Still Uncertain
Everyone in AI feels the same tension right now, but this piece finally names it clearly. The tech is real. The progress is real. The spending is real. The business models aren’t. Not yet. This is the best breakdown I’ve...
Fresh, Focused AI Memory Beats Massive, Outdated Datasets
I know ‘memory’ is a big deal in AI — what I don’t know is how >much< of it you really need to have a great AI experience. The more I learn about how our own AI Agents work, the...
Pivot Only After Exhausting All Options, Not Out of Pride
Advice on when to pivot from the king of the pivot Stewart Butterfield : "The decision is, have you exhausted all the possibilities? The default advice is to persevere, like the kitten hanging off the branch, that poster that says...
New Database Tracks Tech Fundraising Since 2021
Just launched a tech fundraising database. See who has raised from 2021 to today. https://t.co/S4E99cnnes https://t.co/NMjwhevAMb
Scale Finance Efficiently Without an ERP Implementation
📣 SaaS Finance Leaders: Want to scale without jumping into an ERP too early? Most finance teams hit a breaking point long before they’re actually ready for a new ERP. What kind of tech runway do you have? The truth...
Deep Billing Infrastructure Demands VC Funding, Not Bootstrapping
“Bootstrapping wasn’t an option.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) breaks down why building deep billing infra required VC funding + 1–2 years of heads-down work before GTM. Episode 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #AI #SaaS #Alguna https://t.co/RFDFavgq0R
