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Your Consulting Brand Won’t Sell Your SaaS
SocialOct 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
AI‑Powered CBM Delivers 27 Full‑Funnel Playbooks
SocialOct 21, 2025

AI‑Powered CBM Delivers 27 Full‑Funnel Playbooks

ABM this. ABM that. I've always preferred to use the acronym CBM (contact-based marketing) because it's all about the human. CBM is a system built to listen, adapt, and act on a multitude of different plays and signals. Luckily the...

By Kyle Lacy
I Spent a Month Living with a $430 AI Pet, the Casio Moflin
NewsOct 21, 2025

I Spent a Month Living with a $430 AI Pet, the Casio Moflin

Casio’s Moflin is a $430 AI‑enabled plush pet that learns simple emotional responses over weeks via the MofLife app, offers a “deep sleep” off mode, and converts audio into non‑identifiable data to distinguish voices rather than record conversations. A monthlong...

By TechCrunch AI
AI Coach Turns Prospecting Into Real‑Time Sales Wins
SocialOct 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...

By Mark Roberge
Leverage Human Touch to Outperform AI-Driven Competition
SocialOct 21, 2025

Leverage Human Touch to Outperform AI-Driven Competition

See you tomorrow? My new keynote is about how to use the human touch to out-perform your competition in the age of AI and automation. It might be my best work, ever. Live on Zoom. Tomorrow! Human.Kind: How to Keep...

By Jay Baer
Google's New Vibe Coding AI Studio Experience Lets Anyone Build, Deploy Apps Live in Minutes
NewsOct 21, 2025

Google's New Vibe Coding AI Studio Experience Lets Anyone Build, Deploy Apps Live in Minutes

Google updated its AI Studio with a redesigned Build tab that lets novices and developers create, edit and deploy web apps in minutes using Gemini models and mix-and-match capabilities like Nano Banana, Veo, Imagine and Flashlight. The free-to-start “vibe coding”...

By VentureBeat AI
Managing Up Now Means Coaching Your Boss
SocialOct 21, 2025

Managing Up Now Means Coaching Your Boss

You know that feeling when Hollywood announces another sequel nobody asked for? Did we really need a Happy Gilmore 2? Now that we’ve survived Freakier Friday, should we brace ourselves for Freakiest Friday? Well lately with my consulting clients I've...

By Robert Rose
Your Lead Magnet Fails Because It Lacks Value Promise
SocialOct 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...

By TK Kader
Retail’s Holiday 2025: More Sales, Profits, And AI-Driven Commerce
NewsOct 21, 2025

Retail’s Holiday 2025: More Sales, Profits, And AI-Driven Commerce

Retailers should expect a stronger Q4 2025 holiday season with year‑over‑year sales and profits rising as consumers continue to spend despite price worries and retailers operate leaner or use AI to cut costs. Promotions will remain muted through early November...

By Forrester Generative AI
AI Is Reshaping GTM Team Structures
SocialOct 21, 2025

AI Is Reshaping GTM Team Structures

Breaking my own rules and leading with a plug, James Kaikis is my guy and he has launched GTMshift . As part of his launch, he has produced some incredible video content. James knows the GTM is in the middle...

By Craig Rosenberg
Sticking with Comet over OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas
SocialOct 21, 2025

Sticking with Comet over OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas

I like exploring AI tools and new apps. So of course jumped at Comet. It is my primary browser and I love it. Now OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, which seems to be their version of Comet. So far I see...

By Bob Gourley
YouTube’s Likeness Detection Technology Has Officially Launched
NewsOct 21, 2025

YouTube’s Likeness Detection Technology Has Officially Launched

YouTube has officially launched its likeness detection tool to eligible creators in the YouTube Partner Program after a pilot, enabling creators to detect and request removal of AI‑generated videos that use their face or voice. Onboarding requires consent, ID and...

By TechCrunch AI
That All‑Too‑Familiar Moment We All Recognize
SocialOct 21, 2025

That All‑Too‑Familiar Moment We All Recognize

You know the one. That little bubble in the corner. "Hi! 👋 I'm here to help!" it chirps, right when you're trying to update a deal, export a report, or just... do your job. And what does it want? It...

By Swarnendu De
AI Development Demands Hypothesis‑First, Fast Iterative Launches
SocialOct 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
WhatsApp and Messenger Add New Warnings to Help Older People Avoid Online Scams
NewsOct 21, 2025

WhatsApp and Messenger Add New Warnings to Help Older People Avoid Online Scams

Meta rolled out new scam‑detection warnings in WhatsApp and Messenger aimed at protecting older users, including alerts when unknown contacts request screen sharing and AI‑backed flags for suspicious Messenger messages. The company says it disrupted about 8 million scam accounts...

By TechCrunch AI
Cercli Secures $12M Series A to Power AI Hiring
SocialOct 21, 2025

Cercli Secures $12M Series A to Power AI Hiring

Congrats to @akeed23, @twopac, and @cerclihq on their $12M Series A! Cercli is the single platform for enterprises to hire, manage, and pay their global workforce in the AI era. They've grown 10x over the last 12 months, processed over...

By YCombinator
Safety and Innovation Thrive Together with Anthropic’s Constitutional AI
SocialOct 21, 2025

Safety and Innovation Thrive Together with Anthropic’s Constitutional AI

LIVE FROM DREAMFORCE: Paul Smith (@realpaulsmith), Chief Commercial Officer at @Anthropic, on balancing innovation and safety in AI. “We don’t want to be a bottleneck on innovation. You can have safe, trusted AI and still have incredible innovation, those two things...

By Matthew Berman
Agentic Platform Race Heats Up with OpenAI Browser
SocialOct 21, 2025

Agentic Platform Race Heats Up with OpenAI Browser

I'm off to @rwang0's enterprise conference today. On the way out @flowith_ai just dropped me a note and a new thing to use that takes their agentic platform a lot further. More coming on Thursday from them. Can't talk about...

By Robert Scoble
Don’t Cripple Free Plans—Be Honest About Pricing.
SocialOct 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
AI Video Generator Kling Shines at Cannes MIPCOM
SocialOct 21, 2025

AI Video Generator Kling Shines at Cannes MIPCOM

Have you ever been to Cannes? I have. The audience there is the most powerful in the content business, so this caught my eye. @Kling_ai was there for the first time this year, significant because AI video generators haven't gotten that...

By Robert Scoble
Great Leaders Place People in Roles Where They Thrive
SocialOct 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
AI's Hidden Subconscious Mirrors Human Biases and Creativity
SocialOct 21, 2025

AI's Hidden Subconscious Mirrors Human Biases and Creativity

I didn't understand my own subconscious mind until I visited the VR/AR lab at Stanford University and Jeremy Bailenson had me walk the plank. There I learned that my subconscious mind would overrule my rational mind. In our newsletter this...

By Robert Scoble
CMOs Quantify Brand Impact with Awareness, SEO, Sentiment Metrics
SocialOct 21, 2025

CMOs Quantify Brand Impact with Awareness, SEO, Sentiment Metrics

Brand conversations, especially in earlier-stage B2B organizations, get stuck when we treat “brand” as a fuzzy idea instead of a measurable driver of pipeline. We covered brand and demand, working together, in last week's CMO Coffee Talk sessions. And we...

By Matt Heinz
Help Shape Our B2B Sales Deep Dive Podcast
SocialOct 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
Meta Releases 500‑hour 3D Motion Dataset for AI
SocialOct 21, 2025

Meta Releases 500‑hour 3D Motion Dataset for AI

Datasets you need to build an AI JARVIS — Meta dropped 500 hours of 3D motion data spanning everything from individual gestures to multi-person conversations and co-living scenarios, complete with motion tracking, annotations, and audio tracks. https://t.co/ZDEiMmeq0Q

By Bilawal Sidhu
Take Acquisition Offers Seriously—High Valuations Favor Selling
SocialOct 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
Simple Slack Email Tool Generates $22K Profit Autopilot
SocialOct 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
State of AI Report Rumored to Launch Standalone Browser
SocialOct 21, 2025

State of AI Report Rumored to Launch Standalone Browser

boom in @stateofaireport "rumored to be launching a standalone browser" https://t.co/u7dMAEqnBc

By Nathan Benaich
AI Coding Tools Spawn a New, Primitive Dev Language
SocialOct 21, 2025

AI Coding Tools Spawn a New, Primitive Dev Language

Having now watched 3 different devs this week use Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, I can tell you that neanderthal dev speak is a new language. "Make plz" "Do it" "now more" https://t.co/3iVnoEwbJF

By Allie Miller
Why Most Founder Lead Magnets Fail on Social
SocialOct 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
Winning Marketplace Vendors Embrace Service Delivery Partners
SocialOct 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
Modular News Recommendation Framework Scales with Keras 3 and JAX
SocialOct 21, 2025

Modular News Recommendation Framework Scales with Keras 3 and JAX

NewsRex! 🦖 A modular framework for SOTA news recommendation, built on Keras 3 + JAX backend for extreme scalability and performance with XLA acceleration. Extensible and easy to use. GitHub link in next tweet. https://t.co/zSVkOgIqQC

By François Chollet
Build Free Multimodal Gemini Apps, Deploy Instantly on Google Cloud
SocialOct 21, 2025

Build Free Multimodal Gemini Apps, Deploy Instantly on Google Cloud

Wow. Anyone can now build *multimodal* AI apps powered by Gemini, and deploy them instantly to Google Cloud! 🔥 All inside @GoogleAIStudio. Completely free. → https://t.co/laqQ9ZY6x7 https://t.co/MoV5dXe9Yg

By Data Chaz
Benchmark Your Pitch Deck Against 4,000 Startups
SocialOct 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
Ship Often; Each Release Sharpens Your Judgment
SocialOct 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
Turn Papers Into Production-Ready Code in Minutes
SocialOct 21, 2025

Turn Papers Into Production-Ready Code in Minutes

Go from research paper → codebase in minutes. DeepCode turns prompts, PDFs, or URLs into complete production-grade codebases: with backend, frontend, even algorithmic logic! 🔥 100% open-source. Repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/jNbLhRqlH2

By Data Chaz
AI Agents Streamline Trade Compliance for Suppliers and Brokers
SocialOct 21, 2025

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

By YCombinator
ChatGPT Atlas: AI‑First Browser Launches on macOS
SocialOct 21, 2025

ChatGPT Atlas: AI‑First Browser Launches on macOS

Our new AI-first web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here for macOS. Please send feedback! Availability on other platforms to follow.

By Sam Altman
AI Boosts Marketing Efficiency with New SparkToro Feature
SocialOct 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
AI Voice Agents Boost Dealership Revenue by Six Figures
SocialOct 21, 2025

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

By YCombinator
OpenAI Launches AI‑first Web Browser for Innovators
SocialOct 21, 2025

OpenAI Launches AI‑first Web Browser for Innovators

OpenAI introducing a new Web browser for AI first thinkers.

By Robert Scoble
Too Many Options, No Strategy = Slow Startup Death
SocialOct 21, 2025

Too Many Options, No Strategy = Slow Startup Death

The startups that die slowest are the ones with the most options and no real strategy.

By Hiten Shah
ChatGPT Atlas Launches as macOS Browser
SocialOct 21, 2025

ChatGPT Atlas Launches as macOS Browser

ChatGPT Atlas. Macos browser https://t.co/1jdCCZN5Gl

By Abhishek Thakur
SubImage Raises $4.2M for AI-Driven Vulnerability Mapping
SocialOct 21, 2025

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

By YCombinator
Built 7 Apps in 100 Days, Saved $200K Annually
SocialOct 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
Human Nature Stays Constant; Master Attention to Future‑proof Business
SocialOct 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
SF Tech Firms Adopt New Ideas Far Easier than Others
SocialOct 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
AEO/GEO Tactics Confirm SEO Evolution Is Real
SocialOct 21, 2025

AEO/GEO Tactics Confirm SEO Evolution Is Real

A review of AEO/GEO visibility tactics settles the controversy of whether an evolution of SEO is underway. https://t.co/LgJsy8WiFc via @martinibuster, @sejournal

By Tom Pick
Create a Safe Environment so Talent Thrives without You
SocialOct 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