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Dear SaaStr: Should a Startup Founder Handle Sales Themself When First Getting Started?
Nov 2, 2025
Dear SaaStr: Should a Startup Founder Handle Sales Themself When First Getting Started? The answer is yes - 95% of the time. The “best” sequence for building a repeatable sales engine is roughly: The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever)...
AI App of the Week: Assistant UI – The React Library That’s Eating the AI Chat Interface Market
Nov 1, 2025
Why 450K+ monthly downloads and Y Combinator backing signal this is the developer tool AI product builders have been waiting for Here's a question every B2B founder building with AI has wrestled with: How do you get ChatGPT-quality UX into your own product without...
Why The Top Quartile in Venture is Brutal Today: When “Doing Great” Isn’t Enough to Raise Money
Nov 1, 2025
We've been running SaaStr's AI-powered pitch deck analyzer for a few months now, and we've graded and analyzed over 1,600 (!) pitch decks. The pattern is clear and honestly pretty brutal: founders are building fundamentally strong companies that would have easily...
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Dear SaaStr: Should a Startup Founder Handle Sales Themself When First Getting Started?
By Jason Lemkin | November 2, 2025
Dear SaaStr: Should a Startup Founder Handle Sales Themself When First Getting Started? The answer is yes – 95% of the time. The “best” sequence for building a repeatable sales engine is roughly: The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers. That way, she knows. She knows the process,…
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AI App of the Week: Assistant UI – The React Library That’s Eating the AI Chat Interface Market
By Jason Lemkin | November 1, 2025
Why 450K+ monthly downloads and Y Combinator backing signal this is the developer tool AI product builders have been waiting for Here’s a question every B2B founder building with AI has wrestled with: How do you get ChatGPT-quality UX into your own product without spending months building chat infrastructure from scratch? The answer increasingly looks…
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Why The Top Quartile in Venture is Brutal Today: When “Doing Great” Isn’t Enough to Raise Money
By Jason Lemkin | November 1, 2025
We’ve been running SaaStr’s AI-powered pitch deck analyzer for a few months now, and we’ve graded and analyzed over 1,600 (!) pitch decks. The pattern is clear and honestly pretty brutal: founders are building fundamentally strong companies that would have easily raised money even just 24 months ago, and today they’re getting passed on by…
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