4 Reasons to Send Investor Updates Even When Times Are Tough
Founder communication falters when startups hit rough patches, but Jason Lemkin argues that regular investor updates are essential even in downturns. Updates break isolation by connecting founders with experienced backers who can offer advice or introductions. Writing hard‑line metrics forces founders to confront reality, creating financial discipline and early warning signals. Transparent reporting also preserves investor trust, reducing anxiety and improving the odds of successful pivots or future fundraising.
Leverage Trusted Logos, Repeat Their Names, Drive ROI
We landed one of the absolute darlings of the ecom very early at Retention(.)com. Everyone knew them. Every brand respected them. Every ecom founder wanted to be them. We said the brand’s name no less than 100,000 times over the next...
Verification Emails Boost Winback Open Rates by 31%
Use email for winback? Try this tactic to increase your success. Send a “verification” email, such as Verify Your Status. According to SubjectLine.com , these subject lines to non-engaged segments can increase open rates by up to 31%.
AI ‘Creators’ Might Just Crash the Influencer Economy
Influencer Jeremy Carrasco warns AI‑generated videos are flooding TikTok and Instagram, threatening the creator economy. He highlights tell‑tale signs such as wobbly eyes, “Sora Noise,” and inconsistent backgrounds that expose low‑quality AI clips. Monetization of AI content can yield modest...
Nokia Networks Gain Sixth Sense Through AI and IoT
Invisible Intelligence: Nokia’s Networks with a Sixth Sense Nokia’s network innovations combine AI, IoT, and advanced sensing to anticipate needs before they happen. Discover the next frontier in intelligent connectivity. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ed36z3Cu #Nokia #AI #TelecomInnovation #BernardMarr
VCs Overload Winners, Driving Sky‑High Valuations
Larger VC funds want to cram more and more capital into their winners. More than ever. It’s not that complicated but two core reasons: #1. Fewer and fewer winners, so everyone wants to throw money at whatever truly breaks out...
How Ratings and Reviews Sit at the Center of the Buyer Journey
Ratings and reviews have become the primary trust mechanism for both B2C and B2B buyers, eclipsing traditional advertising and product demos. In 2025, 99% of consumers and 89% of B2B purchasers rely on peer feedback before committing. The rise of...
Stop Fake Flattery: Use Honest, Specific Outreach
Yesterday I deleted 47 DMs without reading past the first line. Why are so many people using mediocre, ineffective, outdated outreach strategies? You want clients? Stop doing this: ❌ 1. Fake Flattery That Insults My Intelligence "I love your podcast!"...
AI Agents Thrive on Mixed Model Orchestration
AI agents don’t run on one model. They use a team of LLM types 🤖🧠 1. GPTs = generalists 2. MoE = experts on demand 3. LRMs = deep reasoning 4. VLMs = vision + language 5. SLMs = small/fast/cheap 6. LAMs = tool-using doers 7. HRMs...
HTLS 2025: Can Doctors and Scientists Trust AI with Their Work? Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli Answers
At the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2025, DeepMind VP Pushmeet Kohli addressed whether doctors and scientists can trust AI. He highlighted AlphaFold’s high accuracy paired with explicit uncertainty signals, underscoring the need to know when AI is right. Kohli warned that...
Marketing Science Overlooks Small Brand Constraints
The challenge with marketing science and effectiveness research is that it tends to be anchored around large brands, but wants to deliver advice to both large and small ones. This is not a criticism of the work, which is always...
Chunk Retrieve Augment: RAG Cuts Hall
Here’s a simple breakdown of how a basic RAG pipeline actually works.👇 You start by breaking long documents into smaller, focused chunks and converting each chunk into an embedding vector. These embeddings capture semantic meaning which lets the system understand what each piece...
YouTube Creators Are Now Making AI Slop for Babies: Report
A wave of YouTube creators is mass‑producing low‑effort AI‑generated videos, dubbed “AI slop,” that are appearing on YouTube Kids and reaching toddlers under two. Bloomberg reports that creators with millions of followers are posting tutorials on how to make such...
Retention Is a System, Not Just a Flow
Retention is a system more than it is a flow. And most brands are running fragmented post-purchase experiences that were slapped together months ago. Here’s the full Retention Audit: • Email flows: Do they match current SKU and product paths? • SMS cadence: Still...
Post‑Holiday Revenue ≠ Cash Flow: Q1 Checklist
Post-holiday revenue isn’t cash flow. Returns, ad spend, and SaaS bloat catch up fast in January. If you don’t know your numbers, you’re gambling with momentum. Here’s the Q1 Cashflow Checklist: • Re-price SKUs if margins got squeezed • Reconcile BFCM net revenue (after returns) •...
The Top 10 “Hidden Gem” SaaStr Posts You May Have Missed — Per SaaStr’s Own AI
SaaStr.ai scanned the platform’s massive archive and surfaced ten under‑read articles that deliver high‑impact SaaS guidance. The list spans sales playbook design, quota cadence, founder dilution, hiring stretch VPs, and financing pitfalls. Each post offers concrete tactics for founders looking...
Google's Real-Time Neural Memory Shatters Context Limits
AGI might be closer than we think. Google just dropped Titans + MIRAS, a long-term memory system for AI that updates itself in real time. It's a new architecture that combines the speed of RNNs with the performance of Transformers. ... and It’s...
Think Before You Click: Most Free File-Sharing Apps Expose Your Downloads to Security Risks, Warns Surfshark
Surfshark’s recent analysis of six popular file‑sharing services reveals that most free tiers do not scan uploaded files for malware, leaving users vulnerable. Only Box and WeTransfer offer virus scanning to paid subscribers, while Dropbox and iCloud provide no scanning...
World Models Will Never Run Out of Data
No San Francisco robotics company says we are anywhere close to having enough data to train on. One of the companies launched tonight at @hf0 (I shared the video earlier) has put cameras on more than 10,000 factory workers to build...
OpenAI Beats Google, Meta, and Grok in All-AI Poker Tournament
In a week‑long, AI‑only poker showdown, OpenAI’s o3 model topped the leaderboard, finishing $36,691 ahead after five days of no‑limit Texas Hold’em. Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and X.ai’s Grok followed in second and third place, while Google’s Gemini posted a modest...
Curiosity Fuels Top B2B Marketers – Free Leadership Toolkit
How to level up as a B2B Marketing Leader (something we created) I've spent the last 10 years around a group of incredible marketers; in my career as VP of Marketing and then CMO, through hosting my podcast, and now...
Boost LinkedIn Reach with the 3‑2‑1 Method
Learn the powerful "three two one LinkedIn method" to boost your profile views and engagement: post results three times a week, share counterintuitive insights twice, and open up with a vulnerable story once. Plus, discover the secret to creating "comment...
Ex-Googler’s Yoodli Triples Valuation to $300M+ with AI Built to Assist, Not Replace, People
Yoodli counts Google, Snowflake, and Databricks among its customers.
No ChatGPT Ads Yet; Future Will Respect Trust
I'm seeing lots of confusion about ads rumors in ChatGPT. There are no live tests for ads – any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads. If we do pursue ads, we’ll take a thoughtful approach. People...
How to Do AI Outbound Email the Right Way
The post argues that AI’s value in outbound email lies in amplifying personalization, not merely increasing volume. Modern prospects expect handcrafted relevance, so successful campaigns depend on richly enriched ABM data that AI can stitch into unique insights. By using...
"There Is 'No Way'" - IBM CEO Says Current AI Data Center Trends Are Unsustainable, and He Would Know
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna warned that the rapid expansion of AI‑focused data centers is financially untenable. He estimates a single 1 GW AI site now costs about $80 billion, and with industry plans targeting roughly 100 GW of capacity, total exposure could approach...
One Person with WiFi and ChatGPT Outperforms Ten Teams
One high agency person with WiFi & ChatGPT today can do what took teams of 10 to do just 5 years ago.
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples This Week
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
The NYT Sues Perplexity as Meta Partners With Publishers
The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against generative‑AI startup Perplexity, accusing it of crawling and republishing the Times’ journalism without a license. On the same day, Meta announced partnerships with major outlets such as CNN, Fox News, People and...
Unitree's 1.8m H2 Humanoid Delivers Powerful Punches
Unitree 1.8m H2 Humanoid Robot, every punch comes through! https://t.co/qzMFE7Abzc #unitree #Robot #robotics #AI #tech #humanoid @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon @cyngn @belindabeibi @odisseiaalfa @DigitalColmer @MyCompanionsAI @KirkDBorne @patricegorissen @jeffkagan @EdwardKens50830 @enilev @insom_ai333 @ChrisCCrowley @sallyeaves @gurmeet_judge @VairagyaSadhana @andresvilarino @amomsimpression @amit6060...
Less Design Staff, Faster Real‑time Delivery
We reached Peak Employment around Late 2020/Early 2021 Even SaaStr had 4 (!) designers!! Why? - 1 chief designer who just wanted to manage - everyone had to file an Asana card to get any assets or changes - Chief designer would route to...
AI Enables Expert-Focused, Condensed Technical Writing
historically when writing, we’d write in a way that your entire target audience could comprehend, meaning you explain enough for the dumbest person in your target audience but now that everyone has ai, i think some writing can start targeting the...
Choosing One: SpaceX, Anthropic, or OpenAI IPO?
Let’s say SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI all IPO in 2026. You can only buy one. Which are you buying?
Blueprint for Building GTM Engineering Systems with Claude
Here’s how I structure my GTM Engineering Systems in Claude Code and how you can too…
Indian VCs Prefer Technologists Over Hustlers in AI Boom
VCs favour technologists, not hustlers, in India’s new AI, deep-tech wave https://t.co/bz0tfO9OsP #technologist #techno #Funding #VentureCapital #AI #deeptech #StartupIndia #StartupLife #VC
Google Poised to Deliver Daily AI Assistant
I think Google is set up very nicely to build the AI agent we use daily. Less time scrolling to do commercial tasks and more time consuming content. https://t.co/gwL0pPMmfr
Tech Finally Catches up, Turning Decades-Old Vision Into Reality
I’ve been carrying the same product in my head since 2003. Every few years I’d take another run at it, only to watch it collapse under the limits of whatever tech existed at the time. It always worked in one...
AI Could Soon Replace Almost Every Job, Even CEOs
Leading AI expert warns future systems could replace nearly every job — even CEOs | Mint https://t.co/B6CVVrNRn7 #ArtificialInteligence #AI #Careers #CareerGrowth #AIthreat
Web Pushback Evident as 416 B AI Crawlers Blocked
The real AI conflict shows up in Cloudflare’s logs. Four hundred sixteen billion crawler hits were stopped in a few months, and that single number tells you how quickly the web is starting to push back. Publishers spent years assuming crawlers...
Today's Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/2XF2dRfFgW
Google AI Rolls Out Major Tool Upgrades and Expanded Access
Here are the tools, features, and updates we launched this week 🚀: — An updated Deep Think mode in the @GeminiApp for Google AI Ultra subscribers that meaningfully improves reasoning capabilities by exploring multiple hypotheses at once in order to solve...
Non‑Investor Attends Exclusive AI Demo, Calls It Best
The @hf0 San Francisco AI Demo day. I was the only non investor invited to this very exclusive launch of 10 AI startups. Best demo day I have ever been to and I have been to many. https://t.co/q6T7EERovf
Future Billion‑Dollar Startups Need Only Three People and AI
The next billion-dollar companies will be built with 3 people and an AI stack.
Tech Should Aim Beyond Mimicking Humans
The Financial Times asked me: "Is human imitation the right goal for technology?" Spoiler alert: Nope
Early AI Adopters Must Scrutinize Data Ownership
When being an early user of AI tech, you always have to consider what company will end up with your data.
SEM's Future: Prioritizing Context Over Keywords
Next era of SEM is about context, not keywords via @SmartBrief https://t.co/qqtnqqM6Bj
2025 Marks Rise of Truly Autonomous AI Agents
Agentic AI: Why 2025 is the year of autonomous AI agents. A reality check ⚠️ Adesso warns many 'AI agents' are scripted; true agents must decide & act, like coding and IT-support agents; design must balance autonomy & control. https://t.co/nGtxRo1p0P ...
New Survey Highlights Cutting-Edge Self‑Improving Agent Techniques
"better ways to build self-improving agents" i had chatgpt write me a paper summarizing approaches to build self-improving agents, focusing on 2025 neurips papers found using @exaailabs "paper" in thread 👇 https://t.co/IbabIsfaGk
AI Rewrites Journalism in Inverted Pyramid, Saving Hours
I save hours by asking AI to rewrite independent journalist articles in inverted pyramid.
Jensen Huang Predicts OpenAI Will Become Multitrillion-Dollar Giant
Jensen Huang doesn’t care about Sam Altman’s AI hype fears: He thinks @OpenAI will be the first ‘multitrillion-dollar hyperscale company’ https://t.co/ZWYGmlHAvB @nvidia @sama #AI #IoT #5G #AgenticAI #CES2026 https://t.co/S4WpOGgtge