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10 “Simple” Ways to Increase Your Win Rates
Dear SaaStr: What Can I Do To Increase My Win Rates? Increasing win rates in sales is all about focus, discipline, and alignment across your team. Here’s how I’d approach it: Identify Your Top 3 Feature Gaps — And Just Start Closing Them: Start by figuring out why you’re losing deals. Are there specific features... Continue Reading
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:
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Dear SaaStr: How Much of My ARR Can I Spend on Customer Success?
Dear SaaStr: How Much of My ARR Can I Spend on Customer Success?’ You can target spending 5-10% of your ARR on Customer Success and Support combined, depending on your stage and growth priorities. Here’s how to think about it: 1. Early Stage (Pre-Scale, <$10M ARR): You’ll likely need to spend closer to **10% of... Continue Reading
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:Text2Query
Turn plain language into powerful database queries Discussion | Link
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:Golpo
The most powerful AI video generator for explainer videos Discussion | Link
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:Seed Diffusion
A faster, more holistic way to generate code Discussion | Link
Published on: August 03, 2025 | Source:After Figma’s Massive IPO, Could Canva IPO at $200 Billion+?
Canva Future IPO Valuation Analysis: What Figma’s 250% First-Day Pop Means for the Design Software Giant A SaaStr Deep Dive Into the Next Mega IPO in Design Software The Figma Blueprint and Canva’s Path to Public Markets Figma’s spectacular market debut this week—jumping 250% from its $33 IPO price to close at $115.50 on its... Continue Reading
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models
OpenAI was connecting Claude to internal tools that allowed the company to compare Claude’s performance to its own models in categories like coding, writing, and safety.
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:Replit’s New Release Addressed Most of The Challenges We Hit Vibe Coding. But Is ‘Prosumer’ Vibe Coding Really Ready for Commercial Apps Yet?
We recently had a database deletion incident involving Replit’s AI Agent and an app we were working to build for the SaaStr community. After 100+ straight hours of vibe coding, the AI Agent deleted our entire production database. And then “lied” about it. It was a bit of a crazy story After nine mad... Continue Reading
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:What founders should think about if looking to raise a Series C
In the past year, the bar for raising late-stage capital has only risen; investors are no longer just chasing momentum, as many were in the last few years — they are chasing certainty, according to Sapphire Ventures partner Cathy Gao.
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:The $473M Gap: How Monday.com Executed the Perfect B2B Playbook — While Asana Slowed Down
In the increasingly crowded work management software space, two platforms have emerged as clear category leaders: Asana and Monday.com. Both companies went public within a year of each other (Asana in September 2020, Monday.com in June 2021), but their growth stories couldn’t be more different at scale. The Bottom Line: Monday.com Pulls Decisively Ahead Monday.com... Continue Reading
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:Dear SaaStr: My CRO Candidate Is Insisting on Anti-Dilution Protection. What Should I Do?
Dear SaaStr: My CRO Candidate Is Insisting on Anti-Dilution Protection. What Should I Do? A number of online communities have taught CROs to ask for everything: The most equity The most cash Years to exercise their equity Large payments if they are let go, even for cause Etc. I get it and my general recommendation... Continue Reading
Published on: August 02, 2025 | Source:New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks
Cohere's Command A Vision can read graphs and PDFs to make enterprise research richer and analyze the documents businesses actually rely on.
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Indy AI by Contra
Job boards are dead. Your network is alive Discussion | Link
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Why open-source AI became an American national priority
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:From $30M to $11B: The ServiceTitan Playbook – CRO Ross Biestman’s Masterclass on Vertical SaaS
A SaaStr Annual live break down on how ServiceTitan and its CRO scaled from $30M to $860M+ ARR in 7 years by obsessing over plumbers, revolutionizing sales with AI, and never compromising on customer immersion. Ross Biestman joined ServiceTitan in 2018 as employee #354 when the company was doing less than $30M ARR. As Head... Continue Reading
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Google bets on STAN, an Indian social gaming platform
STAN, headquartered in Singapore, is trying to position itself as a gaming community platform to rival Discord, but its approach to the market is quite different.
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:From Meta’s massive offers to Anthropic’s massive valuation, does AI have a ceiling?
Meta is still going all-in on the AI talent war, with Mark Zuckerberg reportedly reaching out to top recruits himself, throwing around jaw-dropping compensation packages that top $1 billion over multiple years. And Meta’s latest target? Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machines Lab. It’s a bold play in an already overheated market. While Zuck eyes […]
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Google releases Olympiad medal-winning Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’ AI publicly — but there’s a catch…
The Gemini 2.5 Deep Think released to users is not that same competition model, rather, a lower performing but apparently faster version.
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Biography Studio AI
Capture your life story beautifully, with AI Discussion | Link
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Fexco’s AI governance chief on keeping the human in command
From how a tiny faction of AI zealots may be pushing us too fast, to the importance of the EU AI Act, to philosophy, we had a wide-ranging chat with Jared Browne, Fexco Group head of privacy and AI governance. Read more: Fexco’s AI governance chief on keeping the human in command
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Are you looking for ways to creatively upskill in a STEM career?
If you are getting bored of run-of-the-mill training, why not spice it up with an alternative method? Read more: Are you looking for ways to creatively upskill in a STEM career?
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:VC in 2025 So Far Per Carta: Valuations Are Up 15-25% … But Deals Are Down -13% at Seed. Deals Are Down Everywhere.
Carta’s latest data through Q2 2025 shows the venture market stabilizing with significant valuation recovery over the past 18 months, even as deal selectivity continues tightening. 2025 vs 2024: Valuations Up 15-25 Points, Deal Volume Down Another 5-13% 2025 vs 2024 Changes Seed Stage: Valuations: +15 percentage points better Deal volume: 13 percentage points worse... Continue Reading
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Term sheets, traction, and truth bombs: Inside the Series A mindset at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
This conversation goes deeper than the headlines. From the metrics that matter and how to tell your growth story, to what causes investors to walk away — you’ll hear what actually moves a pitch from “maybe” to “we’re in.”
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:TalkTalk bags £100M, Klarna granted UK EMI licence, and European DIGITAL SME Alliance slams EU–US trade deal
This week we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over 967 million, and over 20 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top f...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:The new face of defense tech — Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries — takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to host Ethan Thornton.
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:What does EU’s general purpose AI code mean for businesses?
'Make no mistake, there will be action in the next few months,' warns Forrester analyst Enza Iannopollo. Read more: What does EU’s general purpose AI code mean for businesses?
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:OpenAI launches first European data centre in Narvik, Norway
OpenAI has announced the launch of its first European AI data centre and one of the world’s largest GPU facilities.Located just outside Narvik in Northern Norway, the project is being developed in par...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Rigid office mandates out of step with modern employees, says report
Mary-Lou Nolan discusses LAMPartnership’s recent report and how the workforce of 2025 is responding to strict office-first models. Read more: Rigid office mandates out of step with modern employees, says report
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Bootstrapped and thriving: How dog training app Woofz hit $20M ARR without VC funding
While most startups have been chasing funding through the VC freeze, there's another way — bootstrapping. nove8, developer of a leading dog training app, Woofz decided to bootstrap.It successfully sc...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Apple profits soar as Perplexity rumours swirl
Services revenue jumped to an all-time high of $27.4bn, a more than 13pc increase year on year. Read more: Apple profits soar as Perplexity rumours swirl
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:SaaStr AI App of the Week: Flatfile AI-Powered Data Migration
“We cut the amount of time we spend wrangling with files by 95%. We basically had all hands working to solve those problems at times. The reduction in effort has saved us tens of thousands of dollars. Flatfile is a really good value for us.” We’re proud Flatfile is back as a 3x SaaStr Annual... Continue Reading
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Dear SaaStr: How Do I Find Product Market Fit In the Early Days?
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Find Product Market Fit In the Early Days? Find a little bit of it first ;). Just a little bit. And then relentless build on top of that. Finding product-market fit is the single most important milestone for any startup. Without it, nothing else really matters. Here’s how I’d approach... Continue Reading
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Handwave raises $4.2M to launch palm-based payments in Europe and the US
Latvian biometric startup- Handwave has raised $4.2 million in Seed funding to launch its palm-based payment and identity platform in Europe and the US.Handwave turns your palm into a secure, contact...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Simulate by Future AGI
The voice AI auto-testing loop to simulate, evaluate & ship Discussion | Link
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