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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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Bai Xue believed in the internet – and in 2003 she did the unthinkable: she quit a secure and well-paid job at Panasonic to join the startup movement. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Today Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing platform, valued at $3 billion.

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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

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

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In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. We started development in early 2004. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated. Stewart : You’re right.

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Engineering Customer Success Processes for Maximum Impact

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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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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

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From 2003 on he has been with WordPress in a role he best describes himself “My roles with WordPress have spanned development, support, design, systems, event planning, janitorial, and public advocacy — thankfully, the community now includes people far better than me at all those tasks.”.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

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The tech companies that I cited in my examples above all practiced agile software development, for example. The basic premise of agile software development is that fast iterations rather than a few larger leaps will help products progress faster. For whatever reason, these items remain fairly rigid.

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