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Dear SaaStr: Whatβs a Good Comp Plan for Our First SDRs? A good SDR compensation structure should be simple, motivating, and aligned with your business goals. Hereβs how Iβd structure it: 1. Base Salary + Variable Compensation: 60/40 Or So SDRs typically have a base salary that makes up 60-80% of their On-Target Earnings (OTE),... Continue Reading
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Cloudflare has accused Perplexity, the AI search engine, of ignoring website rules and using stealth crawling to bypass robots.txt protocols. Read more: Cloudflare de-lists Perplexity, alleges stealth scraping
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Smart Infrastructure Ventures,a Leipzig-based venture capital firm, has launched its second fund, SIVenturesII, with 30 million in capital, following the success of its first fund. The companyinvests...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:One in three people now suffers from allergies. In Sweden, allergy rates have quadrupled since the 1950s, and it's similar in other Western countries. Back in Australia, debilitating hayfever is so p...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:The sharp rise in deal value comes despite a near 25pc drop in total transactions, with VCs concentrating on fewer but larger deals. Read more: VCs fill up GenAI pot with $49.2bn in first half of 2025
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Dr Furong Tian works directly with farmers to show that academic research can connect with communities and positively impact environmental recovery and public health. Read more: Why peatland restoration is important for public health
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Skyrora, the British rocket and space technology company, has been granted a launch operator licence from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).The licence approval puts Skyrora on course to launch i...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:AI tool for all to run complex tasks in parallel Discussion | Link
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Indian startup Jeh Aerospace has secured $11 million in a new funding round to help ease global supply chain bottlenecks.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:AI powered domain generator for iOS. Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Dribbble is enforcing its terms of service that lets it take a cut of designers' work, and kicking out those who don't comply. One top designer has had enough, and is building his own startup instead.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Smarter Health. Sharper Mind. Reach Your Peak Productivity Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:How large should an executiveβs target bonus be as a percentage of their salary? We looked at Paveβs analysis of 2,700+ executives. From 20% for VPs of HR to 100% for VPs of Sales. Getting these ratios wrong can hurt retention or misalign incentives of your top execs. Important caveat: Many executives in tech are... Continue Reading
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:ChatGPT reaches 700 million weekly users as OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 with integrated reasoning capabilities in August 2025.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:My initial tests revealed the text and prompt adherence was not noticeably better than Midjourney, the popular proprietary AI image generator
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:From messy data to graphs with a story in seconds. Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Dear SaaStr: What Do I Look For In My First Marketing Hire? Hiring your first marketing leader is a pivotal moment, and itβs easy to get it wrong if you donβt approach it strategically. The vast, vast majority of βmarketersβ are just not the right fit to be your first marketing hire and leader. Hereβs... Continue Reading
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:In May 2025 ecommerce just hit 20.21% of total retail sales β a whisker away from April 2020βs panic-buying peak. Hereβs why this time is different, and what Shopifyβs monster quarter reveals about the new eCommerce reality. We just witnessed something remarkable in the eCommerce data that every B2B founder in the broader space needs... Continue Reading
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Build AI Assistants trained only on your own data Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:The Redpoint Playbook: How Top VCs Are Really Investing in AI Applications (And What It Means for Your SaaS Strategy) From SaaStr AI Wednesday with Jacob Efron, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures If youβre building in B2B today and havenβt figured out your AI strategy, youβre likely falling behind. But if you think integrating basic... Continue Reading
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:OpenMind is building humanoid robot operating software designed for robots that interact with people and other robots.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:In Switzerland's picturesque "Health Valley," nestled just 15 minutes from Geneva Airport and overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps, a new kind of medical innovation ecosystem is taking shape. TheGeno...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:A German family money management app founded by a βfintech wunderkind" has acquired a German financial learning app for teenagers and adults.Berlin-based Bling, founded in 2021, is an app designed to...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:CACEIS has announced the acquisition of a minority stake in Kriptown, the French fintech specialising in asset tokenisation. This investment coincides with the upcoming launch of Lise (Lightning Stock...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Dear SaaStr: What Are The Top 10 Metrics to Track Sales Velocity and Adoption of Our SaaS? To measure sales velocity and adoption rate effectively, you need to focus on KPIs that give you insight into how quickly deals are moving through your pipeline and how well your product is being adopted by customers. Here... Continue Reading
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:The open source product that generates $100M+ for creators Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Last week, wetracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over 967 million, and over 20 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.Haberin devamΔ±nΔ± okumak iΓ§in tΔ±klayΔ±...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Create and edit interactive funnels by chatting with AI Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Your ultimate AI note-taker in hand Discussion | Link
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:AI coding requires a serious structural change. Where does that leave entry-level developers and the software industry as a whole?
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:TL;DR: Figmaβs $1.2 billion IPO at a $19.3 billion valuation that soared to $47.1 billion on day one represents one of the most successful tech IPOs in years, outperforming most major offerings since 2020 in terms of both fundamentals and market reception. As Good As it Gets. So Far Figma stands out even among recent... Continue Reading
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:Why fulfilling the promise of AI requires a step-change in capabilities far exceeding the advancements of the internet era.
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:Hereβs a data point that should make every B2B content marketer pay attention: SaaStr traffic just hit an all-time high in July 2025 β¦ up a 60% from our November 2024 low. Night and day. November 2024 was our lowest readership in years. And July 2025 was our biggest readership β ever. And Q3β25 should... Continue Reading
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:The missing personality layer for every AI product. Discussion | Link
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