Looking to Slice Your Cloud Bill? This New Service Lets You Rent Lenovo Workstations 50% Cheaper than Public Cloud Alternatives
IMSCAD has launched a Workstation‑as‑a‑Service that rents Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra machines, hosted in Equinix data centres, to users needing high‑performance graphics. The dedicated workstations feature up to a 6.0 GHz Gen 9 Intel CPU and Nvidia GPUs with up to 24 GB VRAM, and are billed at a fixed monthly rate claimed to be roughly 50 % cheaper than comparable high‑end public‑cloud instances. Engineering firm TKDA’s testing of AutoCAD, Revit and point‑cloud software showed the remote workstations delivered consistent performance without slowdown, outperforming local machines. Contracts run from one to 36 months, offering a scalable, lower‑cost alternative for graphics‑intensive workloads.
AI Creativity Turns Work Into Playful Future
I have been talking to the guy (and it is a guy who lives in the UK) who is behind @trishacode (his wife is the drummer). He is one of a new crop of creative geniuses using AI to create new...
This Week in SaaS - Nov 4 - 10, 2025
This week’s SaaS roundup spotlights a surge of AI‑focused funding, with notable rounds for Metropolis, Armis, Beacon Software and several others raising between $20M and $500M, underscoring the market’s appetite for AI‑driven infrastructure and go‑to‑market platforms. Major M&A activity includes...
Precision Over Volume: Learn Faster, Scale Smarter
I’m still glowing with gratitude after an incredible week in London for the Turing × SYSTM Growth Summit. I met so many lovely people — finally connected with friends I’d only known online, made new ones altogether, ate incredible food,...
Gemini for TV Is Coming to Google TV Streamer Starting Today
Google is rolling out Gemini for TV to Google TV Streamer devices starting today, extending the generative‑AI assistant beyond the limited set of smart TVs that received it in September. The update works on any TV with an HDMI port,...
Google Brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer
Google announced it will roll out its Gemini AI to the Google TV Streamer, replacing Google Assistant and enabling more natural, conversational voice interactions for content discovery and general queries. Users can ask nuanced questions like movie recommendations for mixed...
ABM List Building with Apollo, Instantly, ListKit, Clay, and LinkedIn
The post outlines a step‑by‑step ABM list‑building playbook that leverages Apollo, ListKit, Instantly, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Clay to create a high‑quality, enriched prospect database for B2B growth. It emphasizes defining a clear ICP, using each tool for data acquisition,...
Chronosphere Takes on Datadog with AI that Explains Itself, Not Just Outages
Chronosphere, the $1.6 billion New‑York observability startup, announced AI‑Guided Troubleshooting built around a Temporal Knowledge Graph that continuously maps services, dependencies and change events. The feature delivers data‑backed “Suggestions,” investigation notebooks and natural‑language queries, keeping engineers in control by showing the...
Hyper‑Growth Blueprint: $10M ARR Without Brand Fame
How do you go from $0-$10m ARR in under 18 months when you AREN'T Lovable, Cursor, or Replit? 👇 I can't say that I know... I only got to $6m ARR in 18 months... But Alan D'Souza founder of Zapmail.ai...
How to Use ChatGPT to Create ABM Account Lists for Niche ICPs
The post explains how to leverage ChatGPT as a research and data‑analysis tool to build highly targeted ABM account lists for niche ideal customer profiles, outlining a step‑by‑step workflow from defining the ICP to prompting ChatGPT, enriching results with tools...
Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Use Its Paid API, and Stop Scraping
Wikipedia’s nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation announced that AI developers must access its content via the paid Wikimedia Enterprise API rather than scraping, aiming to reduce server strain and generate revenue for its mission. The blog post highlighted recent spikes in AI...
How to Use Clay to Build and Enrich an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Lead List
The post is a step‑by‑step guide on using the Clay platform to create, enrich, and activate a unified account‑based marketing (ABM) lead list, covering everything from defining the ideal customer profile to adding verified work and personal emails, phone numbers,...
Expert‑Generated Data Fuels Billion‑Dollar AI Startup
Three 22-year-olds just beat Mark Zuckerberg’s record as the youngest self-made billionaires. Here's how the co-founders of Mercor did it👇 In 2023, Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha built a simple recruiting tool. It helped US startups hire engineers...
Deep Learning Demystified: Intuition‑Driven Modern Stack Guide
Deep learning is not a collection of black-box tricks, contrary to what many believe. It can be learned as a principled engineering discipline. This latest edition of Deep Learning with Python is my best attempt so far at teaching it. It...
How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to Build an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Lead List
The post explains how to leverage LinkedIn Sales Navigator to create a high‑quality ABM lead list, starting with a precise Ideal Customer Profile, using Navigator’s filters, and exporting data via Chrome extensions or outsourced help. It then details enriching and...
Customer Testimonial Videos: The Missing Trust‑Building Asset
" There are no websites with enough customer testimonial videos." They are powerful for two big reasons... 1. Video is the most engaging / trust-building format for content 2. Testimonials change the messenger from the brand to the audience themselves....
Meta Launches ASR for 1,600 Languages, Including 500 New
Introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), a suite of models providing ASR capabilities for over 1,600 languages, including 500 low-coverage languages never before served by any ASR system. While most ASR systems focus on a limited set of languages that...
Patreon Is Adding Tweet-Like Features and More Recommended Content
Patreon announced a suite of new social‑media‑style tools, including "Quips"—short text, photo or video posts that are public by default and open for comments—to showcase content and attract prospective patrons. The platform will also enable creators to collaborate on posts...
Datadog's Platform Shift Drives 25% Quarterly Growth
Datadog is becoming a platform company, & its Q3 2025 results underscore how successful this transition is. If nothing else, the consistency around 25% growth for the last 12 quarters exemplifies this point. Net dollar retention underpins this growth, combined...
Forget the Robots – This Is the Reason AI Is the Best Thing to Happen Since Smartphone Cameras
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Google Photos via an "Ask" button, allowing users to query their personal photo libraries with natural language. In a test case, the author, with a 172,000‑image archive, typed "Picture of bay...
Product‑Obsessed Startups Secure Billion‑Dollar Valuations
Two of my portfolio companies announced blockbuster rounds today: Gamma ($68M Series B at $2.1B valuation) and Scribe ($75M Series C at $1.3B valuation)! What they have in common, besides incredible founders: a maniacal focus on the product and user...
IRobot’s Revenue Has Tanked and It’s Almost Out of Cash
iRobot reported a third‑quarter 2025 revenue shortfall and disclosed that cash reserves have fallen below $25 million, leaving the company without immediate sources of additional capital. The decline follows years of competitive pressure from Chinese rivals, a failed Amazon acquisition, large...
AI Curiosity Outpaces Capability; Innovators Reinvent, Not Trim
The latest McKinsey State of AI 2025 report just dropped and I'll cautiously say it's pretty good. (Cautiously, because I'm a bit leery of reports from big management consulting companies -- they're often very mega-enterprise focused and I'm a startup/SMB...
Open‑source dLLM Library Brings Diffusion LLMs Near Llama 3 Performance
Wow. What an ace (free!) library for building Diffusion Language Models! 🤗 dLLM is a new open-source framework that unifies training, inference, and evaluation for diffusion-based LLMs. Unlike autoregressive models that generate text token by token, diffusion models rely on an iterative denoising...
Don’t Trust Big Tech with Your Storage? Try This Proton Plan, Now on Sale for an Incredible 60% Off This...
Proton Drive, the Swiss privacy‑focused cloud service, is offering its 200 GB plan for $1.99 a month—a 60% Black Friday discount from the regular $4.99 price. The plan includes end‑to‑end encryption, automatic photo backup, secure file sharing and a 30‑day money‑back guarantee,...
Join the 7th SaaS Tech Stack Survey for Free Resources
What tech is used in your back office? 🤖 I think we'll see big change in several categories. The 7th Annual SaaS Tech Stack Survey is here! If you work in software, SaaS, or AI and know your back office...
It’s Not Just You. Everyone Is Paying a Lot More for AI Engineers. Especially Equity.
In this SaaStr AI episode, Jason Lemkin highlights Carta’s data showing AI engineers’ equity grants soaring up to 40% while salary growth remains modest, driven by an "AI or Die" mindset, big‑tech poaching, and perceived massive upside. He warns founders...
From $25K Debt to $1.2M Freedom: Startup Resilience
Just a few weeks before this video, which was shot 12 years ago, I was $25K in debt because of my past failed startup. It was called “Tell It In 10”, and it went absolutely nowhere. Most nights I’d stare...
AI Risk Is Everyone’s Responsibility, Not Just IT
AI risk isn’t someone else’s job. Too often, leaders assume it’s the domain of IT, compliance, or data science... but the truth is, AI risk cuts across every part of the business. Brand, trust, liability, reputation are all on the...
Blend Human Insight with AI for Marketing Success
Don’t get caught up in the extremes of AI marketing! A lot of marketers are stuck in a tough spot: either avoiding AI and getting left behind or letting AI take over everything and losing the strategic edge that builds...
U.S. State Data Privacy Laws: What You Need to Know
The article maps the emerging patchwork of U.S. state data‑privacy laws, noting that 11 states already have active statutes and five more will be effective by January 2026, forcing marketers to navigate multiple regimes. It outlines each law’s applicability thresholds and...
AI-Native Status Now Essential, Even for Legacy Firms
Today, legal software @goclio announces a round at $5B and presentation software @GammaApp at $2.5B valuations What do they have in common? Both were around well before the AI Era. Clio in 2008, Gamma in 2020. Being “AI Native” is critical to...
AI Accelerates Business Speed, Not Just Profit Margins
Is AI actually driving for businesses? -- I want to hear from you in the comments. McKinsey dropped a report saying that only 39% of companies see real profit gains, while 64% say AI helps with innovation. Goldman Sachs reports average...
AI and Neuroscience Spark Fresh Debate on Machine Consciousness
Advances in AI and brain science provoke new debates about the nature of awareness and whether machines could ever be sentient. By Geoffrey Moore Author – The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality This...
VCs Tout Elite AI Labs; Founders Use Alibaba's Qwen
venture capitalists: we back the top ai labs and infrastructure companies such as openai anthropic mistral huggingface coreweave cohere xAi ai founders: we use qwen on ali baba cloud
AI Travel SaaS Hits $345K Revenue, 300% Growth
Big fan of AI plays like this. Vertical AI SaaS built for travel customer experience. > $345k TTM revenue > $265k TTM profit > 300% YoY growth High-margin + Lean ops Check out listing @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/W8PNmLJqTD https://t.co/xuUCVn0BpK
One-Click Access to Any AI Model, Built for You
Every AI model in the world—open source, commercial, audio, image, text—under one-click. Just ask Agent to build with your favorite model and let us worry about the rest.
Meet the AI Realist: Optimistic Yet Cautious
What is the official term for someone who is neither an AI Doomer not an AI Boomer? Someone who sees the enormous potential of AI to do good and create abundance, but is also realistic and cautious about the current...
Slack Shifted Email From Core to Peripheral Collaboration Tool
Slack didn’t kill email. It made it much less relevant and useful for internal company collaboration.
New AI Advances Promise Safe Humanoid Robots Soon
Luckily new AIs are on their way. Active inferencing and cognitive architectures. That will lead to safe humanoids soon.
Meta's AI Glasses Fall Short versus Superior Chinese Rivals
This is why I was so disappointed in Meta’s new display AI glasses. It had one shot to compete with the Chinese and it fell flat. These are way better.
Align ARR Growth with Sales & Marketing Spend
Are you spending the right amount to grow ARR? Learn how to align ARR growth with sales & marketing spend using two key metrics: 👉 OPEX profile 👉 Cost of ARR Watch here: https://t.co/UFx233fpYg #SaaSMetrics #SaaSFinance https://t.co/pu2gGLs6aW
Edit React UI Directly From Browser Elements
JSX Tool (@jsxtool) is an in-browser IDE for building React UIs. Click on any element in the browser to jump straight to the relevant line of code and edit it yourself or provide precise context to an LLM to make updates....
50 AI Tools Driving 24 B Visits Worldwide
Discover the top 50 AI tools that have garnered over 24B visits! These powerful tools are revolutionizing the way we work and interact with technology. Stay ahead of the curve and explore the cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence. Via @ingliguori #AI...
Learning Is a Team's Sole Sustainable Competitive Edge
A team’s capacity to learn is its only sustainable competitive advantage.
Seeking Discussion on CLI‑First Headless SaaS
Anyone thinking about CLI-first SaaS (headless) and want to chat?
Essential Fundraising Tips for Early Growth Founders
Fundraising Best Practices Every Early Growth-Stage Founder Should Know https://t.co/fofyIRkCgZ via @TTCapPartners #PE #startups https://t.co/GKiELStcSg
Even Serious B2B Benefits From Simple Link Integration
For years @patrickc + @collision told me "You should add @link, it'll increase your conversion rate" I always figured Link was only useful for consumer-y impulse buys, not Serious Business Stuff™️ But...TL;DR: we added @link and it increased our conversion rate. Lesson...
Captain Raises Enterprise Knowledge Search Accuracy to 95%
Captain (@RunCaptainRAG) delivers unprecedented accuracy in enterprise knowledge search. It connects directly to cloud file stores and improves today's RAG pipelines from 78% to 95% accuracy. https://t.co/jtXm3o58Aj
Nine Strategies to Foster a Positive Sales Culture
9 Ways to Build a Positive Sales Culture - https://t.co/BNTnujq9Hm - https://t.co/qgcN8JsB9k by Megan Totka