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Coding Agents Work. GTM Agents Don't. The Difference Is Context, Not Intelligence.

Coding agents are transforming software teams overnight. Sales and marketing agents keep failing. The gap isn't the underlying model — it's the data infrastructure each domain provides to the agent.

Entrepreneurship

How Vibe Coding Changed the Way Solopreneurs Run Their Businesses

Georgi Todorov built custom dashboards, launched faster, and created tools that were previously cost-prohibitive — all without hiring developers. Here's the three-part framework behind vibe coding's business impact.

Entrepreneurship

The 3 B2B Pricing Models Replacing Seat Licenses. Pick One Before You Get Picked Off.

Seat-based pricing is dying in B2B software. SaaStr breaks down the three models replacing it — consumption, outcome, and resolution — with real examples and the tradeoffs of each.

Entrepreneurship

Owner.com's $100M ARR Lesson: Every Login Is a Product Failure

SaaStr's breakdown of how vertical B2B SaaS company Owner accelerated growth after $100M ARR by rebuilding around AI agents — and the counterintuitive metric they use to measure success.

Entrepreneurship

The Accountability Scorecard: 10 Questions That Reveal If You're Actually Building a Trustworthy Business

A CEO's practical 10-question scorecard for measuring accountability across customers, talent, and public commitments — and why scoring a 10 is the most suspicious result.

Entrepreneurship

Backstory Tiered 141 Customers in 3 Days. It Used to Take Five Teams a Quarter.

Backstory tiered 141 customers in 3 days using AI agents and Slack data. The finding that disproved its own segmentation model is the part worth learning.

Entrepreneurship

Google Is Rewriting Search: What Entrepreneurs Must Do Before Competitors Do

Google published its first official AI search optimization guide as small publishers see 60% traffic drops. Entrepreneurs who treat GEO as optional are already behind.

Entrepreneurship

SDE vs. EBITDA: The Valuation Metric That Determines Your Exit Multiple

Below $2M in enterprise value, SDE is the right metric. Above $5M, EBITDA dominates. Using the wrong one in negotiations doesn't just reduce your valuation — it signals to buyers you don't know your own business.

Entrepreneurship

Andon Labs Gave an AI Agent a Store and $100K. Luna Is Down $62K.

Andon Labs' Luna AI managed a San Francisco retail store — curating inventory, managing staff, and burning through $62K of a $100K budget. What the experiment reveals about autonomous AI limits.

Entrepreneurship

She Built a $9K-$12K/Month Side Hustle Ghostwriting LinkedIn Posts

Brandi Dunham started with $50 and six cold outreach messages. Eighteen months later she's ghostwriting LinkedIn content for six executives at $1,200-$2,500/month each.

Entrepreneurship

8 Things About Exit Valuation Most Founders Don't Know Before They Sell

Below the $8 million mark, no banker tells you what your business is worth. Eight levers quietly decide the exit price, and most founders never touch them.

Entrepreneurship

SaaStr Ran 30 AI Agents. Cutting to 20 Made Output 4x Better.

SaaStr's 3-person team hit a wall managing 30 AI agents, not from compute limits but human attention. Cutting to 20 agents quadrupled output.

Entrepreneurship

Low and Slow Snacks: From Backyard Smoker to Costco Shelves

Jared Drinkwater turned a backyard BBQ experiment into Low and Slow Snacks — now in Costco and 15+ states. An entrepreneurship case study in velocity selling and insider distribution strategy.

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