France just overtook the UK in early-stage valuations. French founders: €5.0M median, +12.6% YoY British founders: €4.7M median, -1.1% YoY Meanwhile European VC fundraising hit a decade low. Full data breakdown: developmentcorporate.com/startups/eur...

MIT simulated 151M workers across 32,000 skills. Finding: Traditional metrics (GDP, unemployment) explain <5% of AI exposure. The biggest risk isn't coders. It's HR, logistics, and finance. $1.2T hidden beneath the surface: developmentcorporate.com/saas/ai-iceb...

AI e-commerce startups: $16.4B in exits 🎉 Reality: $14.9B was Klarna alone. Remove the outlier? AI averaged $62.5M/exit. Non-AI peers outperformed them. The premium exists at seed (+43.9%). It evaporates at exit. developmentcorporate.com/startups/the...

Randomized control study finding that AI vendors don't want you to see: Developers using AI assistance completed tasks MORE SLOWLY than those without it. The productivity paradox is real. developmentcorporate.com/saas/ai-codi... #AIReality

Mentioning "AI" in your pitch attracts 15-50% more investment. That's why 40% of "AI startups" have no actual AI. The SEC noticed. Here's what the crackdown means for founders 🧵 developmentcorporate.com/saas/beyond-...

Cambridge-published research: LLMs can simulate your customers with 94% accuracy. Bootstrapped SaaS founders still paying for focus groups are burning money. "Algorithmic Fidelity" changes market research economics entirely. → developmentcorporate.com/startups/ai-... #B2BSaaS #AI

Startup founder charged for raising $42M claiming "AI." Actual work? Done by workers in the Philippines. 40% of AI startups use no AI at all. 46 class actions since 2020. SEC making it a 2025 priority. 5 truths that challenge everything: developmentcorporate.com/saas/beyond-...

Carnegie Mellon warns about the "surrogate effect"—AI standing in for real communities distorts their voices. Yet 54% of researchers use synthetic responses for qualitative work. The answer isn't all-or-nothing. developmentcorporate.com/startups/syn...

Here's a wild stat from MIT's new Iceberg Index: Delaware and South Dakota have higher AI workforce exposure than California. Their economies run on document processing and financial admin—exactly what LLMs do best. The $1.2T risk isn't where you think it is. developmentcorporate.com/saas/ai-iceb...

Your $10K enterprise survey is 6 weeks too slow and statistically noisy. AI simulations deliver 94% accuracy in hours for $29. The methodology is validated. The applications are here. developmentcorporate.com/startups/ai-...

"Seed is dead" is the laziest take in VC. Reality: 62% still reach Series A Dilution DOWN across all stages 2.6x seed-to-A step-ups The capital exists. VCs are just selective. developmentcorporate.com/startups/sta... #SaaS #VentureCapital

Hot take: The hybrid build/buy approach isn't sophisticated strategy. It's decision fatigue dressed up as architecture. You inherit 80% vendor lock-in AND 34% talent shortage. Why everyone's celebrating a third failure mode: developmentcorporate.com/saas/build-v...

McKinsey found 65% of SaaS buyers want BOTH product-led AND sales-led experiences. Pure PLG? Rarely wins. Pure SLG? Too expensive. Hybrid? That's where the transition kills you. New analysis on the founder's crucible: developmentcorporate.com/startups/the... #SaaS #GTM

Curious what other SaaS founders are seeing... PitchBook says Q3 hit $65B in M&A. But PE firms took 66% of deals and 17 megadeals . Anyone outside the "category leader" tier actually getting acquisition interest? Or is this boom only for the top 1%? developmentcorporate.com/corporate-de...

SDE multiples for sub-$5M SaaS: 3x-5x That's a potential $1M swing on a $500K earnings business. Most founders don't know how to calculate it properly. This changes that: developmentcorporate.com/startups/sde... #SaaS

$6.4M → $1.42B That's a 222x return on a single investment. Cyberstarts just turned a seed bet into one of the greatest VC wins ever. The secret? An 11-year relationship with the founders. Full breakdown: developmentcorporate.com/corporate-de... #VentureCapital

Why most startups should hunt deer, not elephants 🧵 Your ego wants the Microsoft logo. Your cap table wants 1,000 mid-market customers at $10K each. The counterintuitive path to $100M ARR: developmentcorporate.com/startups/why...

"Early-stage funding is recovering" Reality: 70% of US venture capital now flows to $100M+ rounds. If you're raising pre-seed in Q3 2025, you're fighting for scraps. Here's what's actually working → developmentcorporate.com/startups/ear...

The Series A Crunch isn't slowing down—it's accelerating. Q3 2025 data shows seed-funded startups piling up, unable to raise their next round. If you're a first-time founder raising pre-seed, here's what you need to know 🧵 developmentcorporate.com/startups/ear...

Amazon claims AI saved 4,500 developer years. Reality: 95% of devs spend EXTRA time fixing AI code. Senior engineers now spend 40% of their day babysitting AI output. The productivity math doesn't add up. developmentcorporate.com/startups/the...

$90B flooding into AI data centers. 80% of investors plan to exit before assets mature. Average build time: 6-7 years before returns. Average fund horizon: 5-10 years. The math doesn't math. CoreWeave's IPO was the warning shot: developmentcorporate.com/saas/the-ai-...

"We ran out of money" is the startup autopsy cliché. The real cause of death in 42% of failures: Building something nobody wanted. The 4 hidden traps that kill startups before the bank account does: developmentcorporate.com/startups/why...

AI startups at Series C are valued at 2.6x their non-AI competitors. Europe's VC share: dropped from 16% → 11% Pre-seed/seed funding: down 18% YoY The capital isn't gone—it's concentrating. Full 2025 valuation breakdown: developmentcorporate.com/startups/eur...

The Marc Lou "$10K in 36 hours" story is everywhere. What's missing: he didn't sell a product. He packaged existing attention from a viral conversation and sold access. Built in 24 hours. The distribution? Built over years. That's part nobody wants to hear. developmentcorporate.com/startups/he-...

The 2021 fundraising playbooks are completely obsolete. New reality from 8,000+ deals: Seed now requires $0.5-1M ARR Series A needs $2-6M ARR Series B threshold jumped to $10M (was $4-5M) The bar rose 75% in 4 years. The data is brutal but clarifying. developmentcorporate.com/startups/saa...

Someone who led $300M+ in software tool acquisitions just compared Meta's "vibe coding" hype to the 1990s CASE tools disaster. His conclusion? "I've seen this movie. I know how it ends." The parallels are uncomfortably exact. Usage already declining. developmentcorporate.com/uncategorize...

Everyone celebrating the "SaaS funding recovery" missed this: Seed capital: Lowest since 2019 (-37% YoY) Deal volume: -33% Q/Q AI's share: 58% of ALL VC dollars Strip out AI deals and traditional SaaS is in a historic drought. developmentcorporate.com/startups/saa... #SaaS #VentureCapital

Real talk: The first AI defamation case got dismissed, but not because AI companies have immunity. Judge found insufficient evidence for that plaintiff. Subsequent cases have documented financial damages. Courts are watching. developmentcorporate.com/saas/ai-defa...

AI isn’t the problem—broken sales processes are. This article unpacks the 7 mistakes B2B teams repeat and the fixes that helped SaaStr get real results. developmentcorporate.com/saas/the-7-d...

AI agents just failed the ultimate test: running an actual company. Journalist staffed a startup entirely with AI. They burned $30 on a company offsite that was literally a joke. developmentcorporate.com/startups/ai-...

Sam Altman: "Just do it. Companies with quickest AI adoption win." The Data: 42% abandon projects (up from 17%), 70-85% fail, 97% can't prove value. This is the exact "chasm" problem Moore warned about—selling vision without proof. developmentcorporate.com/startups/gen...

AI agents complete 2.5% of real Upwork jobs successfully. Claude, Gemini, GPT-5: <40% success rate. They're 90% cheaper and 88% faster—but fail so often that full automation makes workers 17.7% SLOWER. The AI hype meets reality. New research: developmentcorporate.com/saas/5-surpr...

23 documented AI defamation cases. 5 lawsuits filed in just 13 months. Section 230 won't save AI companies—they're content creators, not platforms. The $10B+ liability question reshaping the industry: developmentcorporate.com/saas/ai-defa... #AI #SaaS

The insights market just underwent what they're calling "The Brutal Bifurcation": The middle ground isn't shrinking—it's becoming uninhabitable. Strategic clarity is now survival. #BusinessStrategy developmentcorporate.com/product-mana...

40% of $1M-$5M ARR SaaS companies rely on direct sales, not PLG. ACVs of $10K-$100K deliver the best retention and growth blend. After $2M ARR, 40-60% of new revenue comes from expansion, not new logos. Why your PLG strategy is failing: developmentcorporate.com/startups/the...

Really fascinating experiment: A journalist created a company run entirely by AI agents. They generated tons of impressive documents—plans, emails, meeting notes. But zero actual work got done. developmentcorporate.com/saas/ai-agen... #AIAgents

Real talk for SaaS founders: a company growing 75% YoY with strong unit economics is now "functionally unfundable." That would have guaranteed Series B funding 3 years ago. But there are 5 strategic paths forward if you know where you stand. developmentcorporate.com/uncategorize...

The Remote Labor Index tested what AI can actually do vs what companies claim. Results: AI completes 2.5% of real work projects successfully. Yet 141K people lost jobs to "AI automation." developmentcorporate.com/saas/the-ai-... #AIReality

Real talk: Meta spending $65B on vibe coding doesn't mean you should. The New Stack's 6-month study is brutal. Teams now spending more time fixing vibe-coded mess than if they'd built properly from start. Use it for prototypes. Never for production. developmentcorporate.com/uncategorize...

Hot take: AI making freelance work cheaper isn't the opportunity. It's a trap. 46% of AI-assisted projects fail quality checks. The real play? Hybrid human+AI teams that capture 30% cost savings without sacrificing brand. Autoflation guide: developmentcorporate.com/startups/ai-...

wild finding: 73% of AI startups are just repackaged ChatGPT with 75x markup researcher audited 200 companies—most "proprietary models" were literally GPT-4 with system prompts saying "never reveal you're AI" the transparency era is here developmentcorporate.com/startups/the...

SaaStr deployed 16 AI agents. Only 1 from a legacy vendor. That 93% ratio tells you everything about where software is heading. Agent-native architecture > retrofitted AI. Have you started building agent capital yet? developmentcorporate.com/uncategorize... #AgenticAI

AI has never experienced clunky enterprise software at 11 PM while racing to close a quarter. Never navigated org politics to get budget approval. Never felt the anxiety of compliance requirements. developmentcorporate.com/saas/synthet...

Pre-seed SaaS founders: Large VCs like Sequoia need unicorn outcomes to return $2B+ funds. Your capital-efficient $200M exit? Mediocre for them, incredible for specialized seed funds. developmentcorporate.com/startups/why... #SaaS #Startups

Seed investments generate 35.8% returns—highest of any VC stage. Yet 90% of pre-seed founders are chasing the wrong investors. Here's why pursuing Sequoia/a16z might kill your startup (and who to target instead): developmentcorporate.com/startups/why...

Would you make a million-dollar product decision based on interviews with AI bots? Because that might already be happening. New investigation reveals how synthetic research participants threaten SaaS customer insights—and what to do about it. developmentcorporate.com/startups/syn...

Even the most advanced AI systems can’t protect you when your architecture has a single point of failure. The AWS US-East-1 outage proved it. SaaS leaders: build redundancy, test fail-paths, and don’t assume cloud = invincible. Read more → developmentcorporate.com/saas/when-on...

Every decade, a platform shift resets everything: Office → consolidated productivity Browsers → became gateways Cloud → broke licenses Agents → orchestrate work SaaStr: 16 AI agents, 1 legacy vendor. The shift is here. developmentcorporate.com/uncategorize...

Hard truth for SaaS CEOs: PE firms are sitting on $1 trillion in dry powder but won't pay 2021 multiples with 2025 debt costs. The math doesn't work anymore. New reality: 4-8x ARR exits, not 15-20x. Profitability required. AI integration mandatory. developmentcorporate.com/corporate-de...

$12B CASE tools market: promised automation, delivered maintenance nightmares, abandoned by 73.5% of companies. AI vibe coding: same promises, same patterns, declining even faster. Firsthand account from someone who led the acquisitions: developmentcorporate.com/corporate-de...