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It appears emerging price points for AI-powered software products will boost the total addressable market for technology products and help reaccelerate growth at tech companies big and small.

AI is going to save software companies’ dreams of growth

Everbridge’s deal shows that startups shouldn’t expect their valuations to be salvaged that much by cash generation if their growth is all but zero.

Medium news, startups: If you start generating cash, you can sell for 4x ARR

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Why there’s no clear winning pricing strategy in B2B SaaS

New data from Maxio indicates that both consumption and subscription pricing have their advantages when it comes to growth, but not at the same time.

12:09 pm PST • January 30, 2024
Why there’s no clear winning pricing strategy in B2B SaaS

Despite all the enthusiasm, there’s a niggling detail that deserves our attention: AI startups often have worse economics than most software startups.

AI startups’ margin profile could ding their long-term worth

There was a lot to talk about this year, and investors and founders sure did share their thoughts freely with us in our surveys.

The TechCrunch+ surveys you need to read ahead of 2024

A critical cohort of tech firms has regained the value it lost after the summer rally, setting the stage for a stronger IPO cycle in early 2024.

The cloud stock rally could help inch open the IPO window in 2024

The software market isn’t exactly suffering, so why are some enterprise software vendors trading so cheaply? The answer is more obvious than you’d think.

Is business software too cheap?

Here’s a rundown of the key names reporting third-quarter results this week and what we might learn from them.

What to look out for in this week’s deluge of SaaS earnings reports

The startup’s solution takes over where project proposal software leaves off, from the first site visit until the solar array is running and on the grid.

Coperniq raises $4M seed round to bring SaaS to solar installers

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Welcome back to the SaaS bear market

Investors have sold off cloud stocks to the point where they are in bear-market territory when compared to 2023 peaks.

9:30 am PDT • October 30, 2023
Welcome back to the SaaS bear market

As the American economy posts impressive growth, we take a look at how much money Big Tech companies raked in from advertising in Q3.

Big Tech’s massive ad businesses are getting a boost from AI

The product needs to be great, but without sales, the business doesn’t generate those nosebleed valuations.

Capturing spread is a powerful but less understood business model available for some startups

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AI is finally resulting in real growth for Big Tech

Generative AI technologies are being suffused into a host of applications, and the financial results of all that investment are starting to show up.

10:19 am PDT • October 25, 2023
AI is finally resulting in real growth for Big Tech

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As Databricks stacks more capital, a competitive AI market heats up

Databricks announced a $500 million funding round this morning, signaling it was putting more cash to work in the growing AI market.

11:16 am PDT • September 14, 2023
As Databricks stacks more capital, a competitive AI market heats up

Tech companies are getting the hang of making money, or at least they’re losing far less than they used to when money was cheap and “growth” was sexy.

Tech companies are finding their profitability groove

Here are some best practice takeaways you can consider to help ensure your cloud transformation is successful across every metric

Embrace these FinOps best practices to ace your cloud strategy

Are startups facing an insurmountable hurdle when it comes to leveraging LLMs and related technologies as effectively as their larger rivals?

Will the power of data in the AI era leave startups at a disadvantage?

From pricing new add-ons outright and raising prices for bundled offerings to simply getting an edge in negotiations, AI opens up a host of pricing strategies.

How and when to charge for adding AI to your enterprise software

After going on about tech IPOs and the ongoing drought for so long, I would like a change in theme, one driven by SEC filings and data.

Everyone’s talking about tech IPOs again

There could be good news just around the corner, provided services with generative AI become as powerful as expected, and are as in demand as hoped.

As net retention plummets, AI could be the savior software companies need

‘There would be all this pressure to go public, but then there wouldn’t be an appetite for it. And so [it would] be harder to get out.’

Amplitude’s CEO feels his company would be ‘in a world of hurt’ if it hadn’t gone public in 2021

Monday.com is continuing its streak of quick growth following its IPO. In addition to reporting a 42% rise in its revenue for the second quarter of 2023, the cloud-based platform…

Monday.com shows it’s possible to post great results even in a slow market

As your product matures, molding existing architectures to accommodate demands from the growing user base becomes difficult.

How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability

Alphabet and Microsoft’s results clearly indicate that the costs are high if you want to stay on the leaderboard in the modern AI arena.

Microsoft’s and Alphabet’s results indicate the AI game is more of a long-term strategy

With Alphabet and Microsoft reporting their quarterly results today, there’s going to be a lot of scrutiny on the ability of their investments in new AI tech to drive growth.

Growth driven by AI will be the metric to watch this earnings cycle

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Time for tech’s report card

We’re embarking on another earnings cycle, which means we can study tech’s largest companies’ results to get some perspective on the state of the economy.

9:00 am PDT • July 24, 2023
Time for tech’s report card

The yardstick for measuring performance has changed, but changing startup performance standards mean that we need a new baseline for ‘fast growth.’

As growth becomes more elusive, a new set of software product benchmarks emerges

The market allowed tech companies to be unprofitable for a while and that era is now ending. But the matter is more nuanced if you think more long term.

Are software companies good businesses?

While Apple’s ascent to this milestone is notable, there’s been a greater reshuffling in the ranks of the biggest tech stocks.

As Apple reaches $3T, it’s time to shake up the Big Tech club

Samsara, which went public in late 2021, recently proved that it is still possible to expand fast and hold on to value.

How one software company is beating the SaaS growth blues