Revenue Automation and AI Transform CFO Tech Stacks
Just dropped a new episode of The SaaS CFO Podcast with Ali Hussain, CEO & Co-founder of Tabs! 🚀 We dug into the rise of Revenue Automation, AI in finance ops, and what’s next for CFO tech stacks. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS #CFO #AI #FinTech https://t.co/zfvqkBfuSF
Free Web Analytics Simplifies Understanding Your Site
It’s been almost two months since I became CEO of Crazy Egg. Last month we shipped Free Website Surveys. Tonight we’re shipping Free Web Analytics. And I can’t wait to show you what we’re shipping next month. We’re moving fast, but with purpose. Everything...
Identifying Future Buyers of SaaS Companies
New!! "Who Will Buy The SaaS Companies?" https://t.co/m1tppdUsFM
Self‑Driving SaaS: The Future SaaS Junkies Anticipated
“Self-driving SaaS” @karrisaarinen has put into words what some of us SaaS junkies have been ranting to each other about privately.
AI Slashes Advisory Costs, Democratizes Financial Advice
Congrats to @Saturn__OS on their $15M Series A! Saturn uses AI to automate compliance and admin work in UK financial advisory—cutting tasks that once took paraplanners 4 hours down to 20 minutes of review. This drops the cost to serve from £2,000...
AI Will Collapse Product Boundaries Into Unified Customer Agent
AI is making everything look the same. Everything is trending towards a big text box asking "What do you want to do?" It won't be obvious how to respect our made-up product boundaries for users. For example why is "Show...
SaaS Growth Depends More on Reducing Churn than Acquisition
No matter how great you are at acquiring new customers… If you keep losing customers due to churn… You’ll never reach significant amounts of revenue. SaaS businesses only work if you have churn under control. Here’s the big question…
AI Agent Ruth Cuts SaaS Costs with Data‑Driven Negotiations
Ruth from @VendrHQ is the AI negotiation agent for SaaS. Trained on data billions in spend data, she helps you benchmark prices, plan negotiations, and save money. https://t.co/7Y962NhyWR https://t.co/7mYfR4sVsy
AI Video Creator: Profitable, Ready for Acquisition
AI + video = huge market. This tool on @acquiredotcom helps creators generate and schedule short-form videos automatically. You can spin up YouTube Shorts, TikToks, and AI-style clips (even Pixar-like animations). Zero editing skills needed. > $107K TTM revenue > $79K profit > 100+ customers >...
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
Smooth AI Browser Agent Offers Real-Time Serverless Automation
Smooth by @circlemind_ai is a real-time AI browser agent - and the fastest and most reliable one yet. It can autonomously perform any task on the web using mouse and keyboard. Infinitely scalable, production-ready, and secure, it's now available as a...
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...
CFOs Share AI Strategies for Risk Reduction and Efficiency
We're hosting an event next week for CFOs and Finance Teams in San Francisco. Hear from CFOs and leaders who have adopted AI to reduce risks, drive better decisions, and deliver efficiencies across FP&A, including: Amol Hardikar, CFO @Replit @john__glasgow, CEO & Co-founder...
Mulligan Launches AI Platform Automating Commercial Insurance Brokerage
Mulligan (https://t.co/KlkcVLe0fK) is an end-to-end AI automation platform for commercial insurance brokerages. It can quote, generate submissions and proposals, compare policies, and more. https://t.co/JgQmbPdU3T Congrats on the launch, @araghuvanshi2! https://t.co/onyFYz8ylh
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....
Tempo Secures $5M to Revolutionize React Design Tools
Tempo (@Tempo_Labs) has raised $5M to build the best design tool for design engineers. Unlike other vibecoding tools, Tempo integrates with any React codebase and allows designers to control every pixel by hand. Congrats to the team! https://t.co/GmPMka8o0H https://t.co/27HsMZBzkd
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...
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.
Articulate Cuts Construction Delays, Saves Millions
Articulate (@Use_Articulate) is the construction and solar painkiller. It catches design issues early, auto-detects clashes, and generates RFls. It also streamlines crew communication and procurement to save millions of dollars and prevent costly delays. https://t.co/yrwr7oqADo Congrats on the launch, @milinds24 & @BlakePasse!
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...
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...
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+...
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.
Automate Order Entry: Save Hours, Recover $10K Monthly
Your sales reps weren’t hired to retype PDFs into your ERP. Yet that’s what most manufacturers and distributors still make them do, resulting in 20+ hours every week wasted on manual order entry. https://t.co/VPgs7HSbig automates it. It reads POs, RFQs, and...
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...
Seeking Feedback on New AppSumo Homepage Design
Working on a NEW AppSumo homepage. LOVE your thoughts 🌮 https://t.co/akU6SmARYL
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...
Create Shopify Stores Using AI in Lovable
You can now build Shopify stores with AI in Lovable
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...
RiveterHQ Unveils All‑In‑One Search API
.@RiveterHQ is replacing the entire scraper infrastructure stack with a single API. Their all-in-one search agent replaces SERP, scrapers, proxy managers, and more. And it knows which tools to use to find exactly the data you’re looking for. https://t.co/WN3adWx2l5 Congrats on the launch,...
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
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 background....
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...
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...
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...
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?
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,...
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
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...
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...
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.”
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
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.
AI Agents Streamline Trade Compliance for Suppliers and Brokers
MarkIt is building AI agents for trade compliance—helping suppliers, importers, and customs brokers classify products, manage documents, and navigate government requirements. https://t.co/tTaCTxaPR9 Congrats on the launch, @ch6nkim and @supadupacoda! https://t.co/cxhpOAGgFV
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...
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...
AI Voice Agents Boost Dealership Revenue by Six Figures
AutoAce (@AutoAce_AI) is the AI-native operating system for car dealerships, starting with voice agents that automate calls, bookings, and updates across service, sales, parts, and F&I. They're already driving six-figure revenue gains for dealerships. https://t.co/Zz7vP4sWjl
SubImage Raises $4.2M for AI-Driven Vulnerability Mapping
Congrats to @alexchantavy, @kunaalsikka, and @SubImageSec on their $4.2M seed! From the creators of Cartography at @Lyft, SubImage is an open-core alternative to Wiz, using AI to show how vulnerabilities and access paths lead to compromise. https://t.co/HpMp0e8sfN https://t.co/KMyFtUYNkC
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
