A small SaaS team asked our mastermind whether a LinkedIn newsletter is worth the effort. Here's the real subscriber math from a founder who's run one for a year and a half, and who it does and doesn't make sense for.
We went around our founder mastermind and asked everyone the same question: which one or two channels are actually generating qualified leads for you right now. Here's what a room of B2B SaaS CEOs said is working in mid-2026.
A B2B SaaS founder's Meta ad spend doubled his CAC the moment he scaled past small budgets. Here's the math, the ad types, and the fixes our mastermind worked through to get it back under control.
July 22, 2026
A breakdown of how our mastermind is actually using three Slack-based AI agents, GetViktor, Patricia.app, and AskRocco, across content, dashboards, software development, bookkeeping, meeting prep, and ad management.
The SaasRise Mastermind meetings on July 22, 2026, featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.
The founders getting the most out of AI writing tools aren't asking the model to invent content from nothing. They're feeding it real stories, real customer detail, and a clear outline, then letting the model do the last mile. Here's the workflow and how the leading models actually compare.
The SaasRise Mastermind meetings on Jan 7, 2026, featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.
This is what we discussed today in the Enterprise SaaS CEO and Founder Mastermind
Most SaaS founders say they want a big exit. Very few actually build their company in a way that makes a $100M+ outcome inevitable. That’s not because they lack ambition. It’s because they misunderstand what drives large SaaS exits in the first place.
If you’re building SaaS in 2026, you can feel it in the air: we’re moving from a “people click buttons” internet to a “software gets things done” internet. That sounds abstract until you zoom in on what’s actually changing. For the last few decades, software assumed a human would do the work: log in, navigate the UI, make decisions, copy/paste, reconcile, repeat.
The top M&A deals, venture deals, news, and blog posts of the week
If I were starting a SaaS company from scratch in 2026, I wouldn’t focus on hitting $1M in revenue. That’s not the goal. I’d focus on building a system that could predictably scale past $10M — and eventually $50M+ ARR.
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