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Book Review of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Kellblog

Most companies — often due to the group consensus process used to create strategy — fail at rising to the challenge of picking and end up with multiple, strategic foci instead of a single, strategic focus [3]. For example, say it’s 2003 and you’re at CRM leader Siebel Systems. Closing Thoughts.

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

Considering blogging is such a crucial part of the web, some website builders have been designed with a content management system in mind. Setting up a blog with a strong content management system helps to get ideas out in a sustained way. For instance, their content management system is very limited compared to WordPress.

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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. There’s a vendor review approval process, and a security policy analyst, and their in house counsel wants to mark up the TOS. We started development in early 2004. Has that changed at all?

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How to Reduce Sales Friction with Salesflare Tasks

yoursales

As CRM systems go Salesflare belongs squarely in the upper echelon for sure. Since 2003 LinkedIn in has increasingly become a critical part of the sales process. Also experiment a little with the due date and time of the task and assign it to the right rep in Salesflare, and you’ll be all set.

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

SaaStr

We have DialPad Talk for our phone system replacement. And once you’ve done that, there’s no way you can make them live their business communications through a desk phone or a legacy phone system. So, I joined Google early on in 2003. We have Uber Conference for conference calling. Jessica Lin : Awesome.

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Human-Centered Design Network’s Gerry Scullion on inclusive architecture

Intercom, Inc.

Probably not, because design is a practical activity where ethics is more of a system of beliefs. And it’s the system that’s at fault. This is the system.” ” The system is exclusive for people who are privileged enough to be able to use these machines, people who use them on a day to day basis.

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

Kellblog

Having contemplated the bad things that can happen to your category and reviewed some basic principles of categories, there is only one answer to the question: lead. Thus, paradoxically, you likely would have been “dead right” as a BI vendor if you rejected the inclusion of financial planning in 2003. [10]

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