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Book Review of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Kellblog

For example, say it’s 2003 and you’re at CRM leader Siebel Systems. Your biggest strategic challenge is your indirect competitor Salesforce.com, who is disrupting the business model with software as a service.

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Benchmarking Tableau's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. There is a tradeoff between the predictability of the SaaS business model and the margins of a perpetual license model. In these plots, I’ve used Tableau’s colors as a consistent legend.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business?

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Salesforce figured out in 2003 that just having the list of partners on our site that integrated with customers wasn’t enough; we needed to facilitate the discovery, the ranking and the promotion of community advocacy around these solutions. Business models are in your favor in terms of hosting, deploying the product and ultimately scaling.

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Customer Growth Game Changer: Totango Breaking Records and Rewriting the Rules for Customer Success

Totango

Brady would go on to lead the Patriots to 17 division titles, 13 AFC Championship Games, nine Super Bowl appearances, and six Super Bowl wins before transferring to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 and leading that team to win its first Super Bowl title since 2003. This term applies to more than just athletes and sports, however.

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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

Headed into the global financial crisis a decade ago, a group of almost 3,900 companies worldwide that we ran through Bain’s Sustained Value Creators analysis posted double-digit earnings growth, on average, from 2003 to 2007. What specifically distinguishes eventual winners?

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Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS

ChurnZero

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. Since then it has been used heavily by companies, both large and small, to assess customer satisfaction and has become an important metric for growth-driven technology businesses.

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