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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

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You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment.

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Paid Search Management For SaaS Start-ups - An Interview With Soren Ryherd, CEO, Working Planet

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Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren Ryherd: We build profitable customer acquisition programs using paid digital advertising. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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Congratulations, You’ve Created a Category. Now What?

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Bad Fates That Can Befall Category Creators. Once you’ve created a category, what bad things can happen to it? You could put Brio and Hyperion under one roof via acquisition, but real consolidation never happened [11] [12]. Both forces pushed towards developing suites, either in-house or through acquisition. [8]

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