Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This unsettling trend is supported by the Fall 2023 CMO Survey, where most CMOs reported limited involvement in executive-level decisions. The 2023 quantitative study surveyed investment analysts across the U.K. They are not regular attendees at board meetings, and even fewer participate in earnings calls. and the U.S.

Drivers/motivators

Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

billion — representing a 22% jump compared to the prior year,” said Lukman Otunuga, Senior Market Analyst at forex trading broker, FXTM. Net income surged to $28 million from a loss of $2 million for the second quarter of 2023. The average price per ad was also up 10%. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

Retail

Martech

JANUARY 9, 2025

Dig deeper: Salesforce Agentforce: What you need to know While 2023 and 2024 [was for] realizing the initial benefits of AI in customer experience, 2025 will be the year where we really start to see the profound impact it will have, said Jay Patel, SVP & GM, Webex Customer Experience Solutions, Cisco.

Drivers/motivators

Veloxy

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The average American spent over $77,000 on goods and services in 2023, according to the U.S. Be a Model Outside Sales Representative As a CEO or Sales Executive, your team looks to you for guidance. If so, don’t wait to reach out to a field sales representative. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Objectives and Key Results

Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Yes Many early agents were legacy products re-launched under an AI banner, with almost everything in tech labeled as “AI” in 2023. Sample file structure To demonstrate this, I constructed sample data files (using ChatGPT) that would represent a typical set of customer data. Are agents just re-packaged versions of automation?

Construction

Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Almost a third of brands signing deals with influencers over the last 12 months had no such deals in 2023 or 2022 according to tracking by sports and entertainment intelligence platform SponsorUnited. When it comes to influencers, brands favor younger ones with those aged under 34 representing some 80% of deals in the influencer category.

Sports

Search Engine Land

JULY 29, 2024

Additionally, focusing on entities (specific topics, people, places, things) ensures your content is accurately represented by AI, further reinforcing your brand authority. As these platforms synthesize information from multiple sources, having your content included enhances your brand’s credibility.

Engineering

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 4, 2024

From: To: This physical enlargement represents a fundamental shift in how users can interact with search engines. Evolution of AI search usage Murray outlined three stages in the adoption of AI search tools: Initial curiosity (2023): Users explored the capabilities of AI tools, testing their limits and discovering new opportunities.

Click Through Rate

Martech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Transactional messages in a well-run email program might represent 4% of the overall email volume but deliver at least 50% or more of your email revenue. The problem is real — media spend is falling out of balance Companies are spending less on marketing overall, according to Gartner’s 2024 global CMO survey.

Promote

Salesforce

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Help associates manage the point of sale For retailers, the point of sale represents the location or system where sales are completed. In 2023, 64% of retailers offered in-store returns of online purchases and 58% offered BOPIS. Back to top. But the point of sale is much more than just a cash register. Back to top.

Retail

Martech

AUGUST 8, 2024

That was the focus of an IAB roundtable this week featuring agency and RMN representatives. IAB introduced media measurement guidelines in September 2023 so RMNs and adtech partners could begin to help brands and agencies connect the dots. So what’s the current state of the RMN-advertiser relationship?

Retail

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2025

2023: 103.9% NRR – Continued Pressure The decline accelerated in 2023 to 103.9% The Seat-Based Pricing Renaissance: HubSpot’s Next NRR Evolution Just as usage-based pricing transformed HubSpot’s NRR in 2014, their seat-based pricing model launched in 2024 represents their next retention evolution.

Price

SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2025

Top quartile YoY ARR growth rates have remained essentially flat across most segments since 2023. ” These companies saw their top quartile growth rates jump from 78% in 2023 H1 to 93% in 2025 YTD—the only segment showing meaningful improvement. But there’s one bright spot that should give mid-stage founders hope.

GTM

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2025

Snowflake’s $250 million purchase of Crunchy Data and Databricks’ $1 billion acquisition of Neon represent a fundamental shift in how B2B software companies are preparing for the era of autonomous AI agents. This acquisition builds on previous AI investments, including the 2023 purchase of Neeva, a generative AI search startup.

Government

Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2025

This likely explains why a 2023 study by Gartner found that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) was the number one type of AI solution deployed in organizations. CEO Manny Medina , In the future, there will be no sales representative or manager that doesnt have an AI supporting their work.

Gaming

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Data from HubSpot’s 2023 Smarter Selling with AI Report revealed that some of sales professionals’ top challenges are as follows: Closing deals Connecting with prospects Deepening customer relationships Even more so, the same report confirmed that at least 87% of sales reps’ time is spent attempting to generate authentic leads.

Sales

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2025

million in 2020, representing 38% year-over-year growth in the year before its IPO. billion Business : Software for contractors (HVAC, plumbing, electrical) ServiceTitan’s preliminary results for the October quarter show approximately 24% year-over-year revenue growth, the highest rate since mid-2023. million in 2019 to $400.3

E-commerce

Martech

JULY 25, 2024

They represented substantive literary contributions to the empowerment of women, like “A Woman” by Sibilla Aleramo, regarded as Italy’s first feminist novel. ” One coup in 2023 was a full takeover of the subway stop that takes visitors to the Salone del Mobile, the hub of Design Week.

E-commerce

Salesforce

MARCH 12, 2025

But financial services representatives and advisors are feeling overwhelmed. This helps customer service representatives spend more time on important issues. Thats up from 46% in 2023. However, the dispute process is often manual, and service representatives spend too much time trying to resolve issues.

Service

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A common misconception is that the name is representative of the type of software we invest in. For the six-month period ending July 31, it pulled in $348 million in revenue, up 26% from the same period in 2023. We do invest in GTM software, but not that frequently. Most of our investments fall into three buckets.

GTM

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Forresters 2023 B2B Sales Survey reveals that while 63% of sales leaders expect digital buying behaviors to have a significant impact on their business in the next two years, only 37% are prioritizing digitizing the buyer journey. The challenge for B2B companies is balancing these expectations with the financial impact of delivering them.

GTM

SaaStr

JULY 6, 2025

The Developer Invasion: 30% of Users Write Code Perhaps most surprising: developers represent ~30% of Figma’s user base during Q1 2025. Even more telling: these large customers represent 37% of total ARR , showing Figma’s ability to expand within enterprises far beyond initial design team deployments.

Represent

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

Navan’s move could signal the opening of long-awaited floodgates for B2B software companies that have been waiting on the sidelines since the market downturn of 2022-2023. But Figma is a crazy outlier. But these were largely specialized or consumer-adjacent plays. Filed April 2025 Stripe 2010 Patrick Collison Payments $1.4T

B2B

Martech

JULY 12, 2024

More recently, 2023 saw Black founders receiving 0.48% of venture capital funding in 2023 — and, yes, Black women saw a disproportionately small share. It’s not 10% of funding going to Black women or 10% of Black women who applied for funding receiving it. It’s literally just 10 Black women getting funding in 10 years.

Legal

Martech

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While still a niche feature, 29% of marketers now deem it crucial, a significant increase from 13% in 2023. This represents a substantial untapped opportunity. News: AI-powered forecasting is rapidly gaining popularity as a desired feature in marketing attribution platforms, according to a new report from Ascend2.

Niche

TrackStreet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“This partnership with MikMak represents a monumental step forward for brands seeking full control and visibility over their sales channels,” said Andrew Schydlowsky, Founder and CEO of TrackStreet. “This partnership is a game changer—providing brands with unprecedented visibility into their entire sales ecosystem.

E-commerce

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2025

Building Top-Performing Sales Orgs: Hard-Won Lessons from Scaling 4 Unicorns (Including OpenAI’s Hypergrowth from 10 to 500 People) Maggie Hott has spent 15 years building go-to-market teams at four unicorns that collectively represent over $500B in market value. If you think it’s right, move fast. In AI, speed beats perfection.

GTM

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This initiative has helped train tens of thousands of future construction professionals and represents one of the largest educational technology initiatives in the construction industry.

Construction

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2025

The Atlas Flywheel: How 72% Revenue Mix = Compound Advantages The Numbers: Atlas (cloud) revenue grew 26% YoY and now represents 72% of total revenue. Product innovation can reignite growth engines even at massive scale.

Non-Profits

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2025

How a 20-year-old company found its second wind in the AI era TL;DR : Palantir just posted 39% YoY growth in Q1 2025, marking a stunning turnaround from the 13% growth trough of 2023. The Deceleration That Had Everyone Worried Let’s be honest: by mid-2023, Palantir looked like it was losing steam. a loss in 2023).

Growth

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2025

The Bottom Line: Monday.com Pulls Decisively Ahead Monday.com generated $972M in revenue for 2024 compared to Asana’s $653M – a gap of $319M that represents Monday.com’s commanding 49% revenue advantage. This represents an 8-year CAGR of approximately 79% since 2017.

Non-Profits

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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Represent

Martech

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In recent years, the company also acquired Backlinko in 2022, Traffic Think Tank in 2023 and Ryte and Exploding Topics earlier in 2024. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

Education

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2025

The Real Re-Acceleration Stories Palantir: The Breakout $1B Quarter Growth trajectory: 13% (Q2 2023) → 27% (Q2 2024) → 48% (Q2 2025) This is what genuine re-acceleration looks like. Shopify: The E-Commerce Resurgence Growth trajectory: 25% (Q2 2023) → 20% (Q2 2024) → 31% (Q2 2025) Shopify’s story is more complex but equally compelling.

Non-Profits

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2025

The Platform Play: Beyond Subscriptions (2023-2024) By 2023, RevenueCat had achieved something remarkable: powering subscriptions in over 70,000 mobile appsroughly one-in-three new subscription apps launched with RevenueCat under the hood. The Bottom Line From a $1.5M

Launch

Salesforce

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So that June 2023 phone call telling us our CSM was being deprecated as of February 2024 was a big deal. To keep our review process efficient within the short timeframe, we built a tiger team of representatives from each significant stakeholder business unit: IT, technical support (myself, obviously), and customer support.

Service

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

GPT-4 and foundation models exploded through 2023. What FAF Actually Looks Like in the Wild Capital Concentration Goes Extreme : OpenAI’s $40B raise in 2025 is larger than the top fundraises from 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 combined. The 18-Month “Let’s Learn” Window Has Closed ChatGPT launched November 2022.

Non-Profits