Top exits, deals, news, and blog posts of the week
I break down when to raise venture capital, how much to take, from whom, and on what terms, plus how to protect your control and spend the money wisely once it lands.
The SaasRise Mastermind meeting on October 13, 2026 featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.
October 13, 2026
This week's SaasRise discussions covered how SaaS leaders are adopting AI without sacrificing security, predictability, or customer trust. The conversations focused on agents and automation, enterprise data governance, new acquisition channels, and whether to build or buy the tools that run the business.
A new generation of CRMs reads your email, listens to your calls, and updates itself. Here is what one founder learned after switching, what it costs, and why another founder barely opens his CRM anymore.
SaaS is not dying, but the way software gets built, sold, and priced is changing fast. Here are the three moves that keep an established software company ahead, and the margin trap that catches AI-only businesses.
A breakdown of how early-stage SaaS and AI founders should actually recognize product-market fit, beyond signups and vanity metrics, using a real mastermind moment as the jumping-off point.
A practical, four-step framework for building a personal AI knowledge system, capture, process, store, query, so your reading, notes, and meetings become something you can actually search and reuse instead of a pile you never revisit.
A mastermind discussion on redesigning SaaS UIs around AI and voice reveals a costly mistake some big players are making: ditching filters and views for a blank chat box, and why keeping both wins.
A handful of SaaS founders compare notes on running AI employees inside real companies: where they break, what they cost, and what actually pays off once the novelty wears off.
Founders lose hours a week to inboxes mixing personal noise with business gold. Here's how one mastermind member built an AI system that auto-sorts, memorizes, and deletes, and why it beats native email integrations.
One SaaS founder in our mastermind now ships 90% of new features straight to production with zero human code review. Here's how the AI development stack actually works, and what it means for every founder still reviewing every pull request.
