Why Fewer Emails Win at Outbound

After years of scaling cold email volume, we cut from around 200,000 messages a month to about 2,000 and started getting better results. Here is what changed in outbound, what is still working on LinkedIn, and how to rebuild your outbound engine for the AI era.

September 18, 2026

Handing Your Codebase to AI

SaaS founders with years of legacy code are now giving AI coding tools full access to their repos. Here is how members of our mastermind prepared their code, trained Claude like a junior engineer, and compressed quarter-long projects into a week.

September 18, 2026

Your Moat When Engineering Gets Cheap

AI coding tools mean a competitor can copy your best feature in a week, and some customers now think they can build your product themselves. Here is what SaaS founders in our mastermind see as the new sources of defensibility.

September 18, 2026

The Hidden Risks of Earn-Outs

Earn-outs are showing up in more SaaS deals, especially for companies that aren't growing fast. Here is what founders in our mastermind have learned about how earn-outs fail, how buyers use them, and how to structure one you can actually collect.

September 18, 2026

Asset Sale vs. Stock Sale: The QSBS Risk

An asset purchase offer can look similar to a stock purchase on paper and leave you with far less after taxes, especially if you qualify for QSBS. Here is how to spot the gap, why buyers ask for it, and how to push back.

September 18, 2026

Strategic vs. Financial Buyers

Private equity buyers and strategic acquirers value a SaaS company in very different ways. Here is how to figure out which one is your best buyer, and why the answer should shape your exit prep long before you run a process.

September 18, 2026

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SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap August 11, 2026

This is what we discussed today in the Enterprise SaaS CEO and Founder Mastermind

August 11, 2026

This Week in SaaS August 4 - 10, 2026

The top M&A deals, venture deals, news, and blog posts of the week

August 10, 2026

SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of August 4 - 6, 2026

This week's SaasRise discussions covered how SaaS leaders are operationalizing AI inside their companies — centralizing knowledge, driving employee adoption, controlling model costs, and setting governance rules before AI touches customers. The conversations also focused on precision outbound list building, content and creative production at AI scale, sales hiring filters, services as a retention lever, and protecting valuation through an M&A process.

August 6, 2026

SaasRise Mastermind Recap - August 5, 2026

The SaasRise Mastermind meetings on August 5, 2026 featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.

August 5, 2026

Reducing M&A Offer Re-Trades

A signed LOI doesn't lock in your number, it just starts the clock on how hard a buyer will try to chip it down. Here's what actually protects the price between signing and close, and why one common type of buyer deserves extra caution.

August 4, 2026

SaaS M&A Timing: EBITDA vs. Growth

Public SaaS valuations are climbing fast off their April lows, and buyers are calling again. That's forcing founders into a real decision: protect EBITDA for a near-term sale, or keep investing in growth and bet the market stays open.

August 4, 2026
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