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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

After the company successfully completed its IPO, the company would increase its annual sales and marketing budget by 6X year-over-year to $230M and $298M in 2000 and 2001, at precisely the wrong time. The notable dip in 2001, when Ariba notched a loss of $2.7B, or -674% net income as a percentage of revenue figure.

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The Missed Opportunity of Agile SaaS

Chaotic Flow

IMHO, adopting and mastering agile software development, agile marketing and pretty much agile everything should be a priority of every SaaS business. The roots of agile software development and agile marketing lie in agile manufacturing , lean manufacturing and total quality methodologies. A Little Agile History.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me. So I just had this idea.

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Engineering Customer Success Processes for Maximum Impact

Valuize Consulting

Eventually, the movement made its way to the tech industry with 2001’s agile software development framework heavily inspired by lean principles and books like The Lean Startup published in 2011 by Eric Reis. Applying lean to the design of customer success processes is an evolution that has precedent.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Top 20 SaaS Companies in Brazil

SmartKarrot

Founded in: 2001. 99 , often known as 99Taxis, is a popular urban transportation software developed in Brazil’s SaaS community. CEO: André Baldini. The company’s car-booking services are available for both commercials as well as personal usage.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more. Kayako is an Indian SaaS company founded in 2001 by Jamie Edwards and Varun Shoor.