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.
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.
This week's SaasRise discussions covered how SaaS leaders are adapting to an AI era that is reshaping moats, pricing, and go-to-market execution. Founders traded hard-won lessons on deploying AI agents, defending retention, running smarter paid experiments, and handling everything from privacy trolls to acquisition due diligence. The through-line: use AI to drive real business outcomes, not complexity for its own sake.
July 23, 2026
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 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.
Here are the slides and the recording from yesterday's webinar and Q&A session on "The B2B SaaS Growth System: A 7 Step Process for Scaling Customer Acquisition."
When SaaS companies hit $3–10M ARR and stop growing, it’s rarely because of product issues. More often, the problem is mathematical — they don’t understand their unit economics well enough to scale confidently.
Here’s what went down in today’s masterminds — a fast-paced, high-signal session with some sharp founders sharing wins, challenges, and creative tactics across growth, ops, and AI.
Most SaaS founders hit a wall when ads get expensive and outbound stops working. The B2B SaaS Growth Program helps you build predictable growth engines by mastering your numbers, using AI-personalized outbound, and running data-driven ad experiments. It’s not about hacks — it’s about building scalable systems where growth becomes consistent, measurable, and repeatable.
In this CEO mastermind, founders tackled real-world SaaS challenges—from broken sales pipelines to cold email chaos. Separate your cold email tools from CRMs, use AI to speed up product dev, explore flexible financing, and embrace smarter offshore strategies. The bonus insight? Growth’s coming back—just in time for Q4.
Over $1B raised across AI-heavy rounds (Vercel, Glean, Tipalti), big M&A moves from Qualtrics and Zeta, and key updates from FASB and Microsoft. Plus, founder takeaways on AI strategy, M&A readiness, and finance hygiene.
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