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That Will Never Work

Tom Tunguz

Marc founded the business and served as its first CEO until Reed Hastings took the helm in 2003. In [That Will Never Work](), Marc recounts the early days of the $130B market cap company first started in Santa Cruz and it’s a remarkable story. Marc has helped many companies get off the ground, but the most famous is Netflix.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. I’m not sure I’m at product market fit yet. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? I have an idea.

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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. David : Which is great, because Parker did a great job, but at some point with a 600 employee company, at some point you might decide you want a product management team.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. I’m not sure I’m at product market fit yet. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? I have an idea.

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

Kellblog

Thus, paradoxically, you likely would have been “dead right” as a BI vendor if you rejected the inclusion of financial planning in 2003. [10] 16] Typically this means creating product-line general managers along with specialized overlay sales and sales consultants, product management, product marketing, and consulting teams.

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What is Considered a Good NPS Score and How To Improve It?

User Pilot

The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. On a scale of one to ten, how likely is it that you would recommend [your company/product/service] to a friend or colleague?”. What is NPS?

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. We had probably a handful of customers we’re still going through, like product market fit, but super early on. And as I said, it’s just been fantastic to see the opportunity in the market and so forth. Dan O’Connell: Yeah. It’s funny. So it’s funny.