Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2021

Jeanne is one of the leading voices on customer-centric leadership. Your leadership style, the way you conduct your business, even the kind of person you are, year after year, will define how you’ll be remembered. One-company accountability, leadership, and culture. The lesson? Ditch the reactive approach.

VP of Engineering 181

VP of Engineering Scale Business Leadership 181

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. This work is necessary and important but it doesn’t help you win against the competition. To do that, you have to make sure the majority of your energy, time, and dollars goes into your core idea. Cloud computing is dominant.

Outsourcing Services 224

Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. And it was exciting to me because at the time, this was 2006, it was to go on the web to get off the web, right? Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. RELATED: The Straightforward Truth About Effective Sales Leadership. We’re on iTunes.

Leadership 75

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 75

Kellblog

JULY 4, 2020

If you take a breath, pause, and think about what it means to create branded features — to your branding, to your comprehensibility, to your industry leadership, to your international operations, to your legal strategy (and associated costs) — you’ll decide to pass on branded features every single time. # # #.

Branding 97

Branding Leadership Innovation Startup 97

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

However, it’s hard to argue that something is genuinely new in human endeavors like leadership, politics, and business. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (Published 2006). This is everyone in a leadership position. Is Blockchain the technology unique? Think the Bitcoin economic phenomenon is new?

Business 101

Business Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Software Engineering 101

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing. You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Are you ready to create predictable revenue based solely on your leadership skills? I joined the ranks of Prime Point Media in 2006 selling national accounts, and by 2008 I had built the entire Midwest territory. I have used multiple marketing techniques during my rise through leadership to get my foot in the door.

Sales Hiring 91

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 91

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2018

We consider sales enablement to be a bottom of the funnel (BOFU) function, but after listening to the sales and marketing leadership it became apparent that I could have the biggest impact by strategically focussing on the bottom of the BOFU, and providing “deal closing optimisation” activities to the business.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Sales Enablement Software Review 112

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. Weebly currently powers over 50 million websites and has been around since 2006, which is a huge achievement and testament to how effective the platform is.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2006, Brian and Dharmesh started HubSpot with the aim of helping people grow their businesses through a less intrusive, more human approach to marketing. How to start a cult like HubSpot” , using the Internet to promote your product wasn’t a new idea in 2006. HubSpot employees: 2006: 3 employees. 2007: 48 customers.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Talk to the people at the coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: “You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 75

DevOps as a Service Cybersecurity Scale New CTO 75

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. I struck up some partnerships and we did some stuff but there wasn’t strong kind of leadership or even that many hires around sales partnership or marketing. And then once you’ve built out some of that function, then you can think about more like leadership roles.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Banking Scale Pricing 93

BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Her leadership at companies like Group Nine Media and Everyday Health has prepared her to successfully take on her new role as BetterCloud’s first chief people officer (CPO). Then I returned to New York City in 2006, and I’ve been here ever since. I went to Northeastern University in Boston, where I lived for almost 10 years.

Scale 40

Scale Travel Leadership Compensation 40

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In nearly every introductory conversation, the discussion quickly turns to the path each person took that brought them to Sales Operations leadership. . Out of the necessity to explain Sales Ops to my peers in executive leadership and to guide my team, I built the chart which you will find below. The Enablement Era.

Sales 10

Sales Technical Review Systems Review Sales Enablement 10

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We started in 2006, so it shows you that you can go a long way without having a great developer experience, except that expectations have changed a lot. We launched a bunch of API’s, we had pretty bad documentation for them, people still built on top of it, but we didn’t really have a platform strategy at the time.

Payments 175

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 175

TriTuns

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since 2006, Tri Tuns has been solely focused on helping SaaS vendors and buyers, all over the world, learn how to drive, accelerate and sustain adoption of technology. . And this is why the role of Customer Success is so important in helping organizations identify and adapt to the changes (e.g.,

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Software Technology Enterprise 40

TriTuns

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since 2006, Tri Tuns has been solely focused on helping SaaS vendors and buyers, all over the world, learn how to drive, accelerate and sustain adoption of technology. . And this is why the role of Customer Success is so important in helping organizations identify and adapt to the changes (e.g.,

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Software Technology Strategy 40

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Talk to the people at the DevOps coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Private capital funds under his leadership it’s become one of the leading investors in M&A advisory firms in Canada. It started in a backyard in 2006; I invested when they had one location in 2014. Maybe because of my genetics background, I always view investment opportunities through the lens somehow of genetics.

Scale 95

Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review Investment 95

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The company was founded all the way back in 2006, amazingly. The first is just literally funding the company in 2006. But back in 2006 they were fighting conventional wisdom and the conventional wisdom at that time was that you could not make money selling software to marketers. So this was the Marketo journey.

SaaS 187

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 187

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

But yeah, my first, my first company started back in 2006 and it was a crazy journey. So your company Keyed In was acquired by Salesforce in, I believe it was 2006. But why didn’t these companies that were in these leadership positions, like. Scott Barker: I love it. Going for the, the three Pete. Scott Barker: Totally. [00:10:00]

Sales Hiring 103

Sales Hiring AI Scale Cloud 103

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2016

Large market; logical revenue model; rapid-adoption; stealth/secrecy; proper compensation of the leadership team. To cite one critical counterexample, Concur’s rapid revenue growth in 2006 and 2007 occurred after nearly a decade of tepid expansion. In part one, the authors identify five key factors of success in the early stages.

Startup 159

Startup Compensation Leadership SaaS 159

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. So I would say that’s a leadership failure for a lot of CEOs, right? So coach toward the leadership piece of it. It’s like a pathological meritocracy, you know? It’s like I don’t care what you did before. I don’t give a s**t. I don’t care.

Sales Hiring 233

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 233

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

And then they went out for their actual IPO in 2005, 2006 timeframe. But leadership is about what you do in those moments, not when you hit the lucky truck, and you’re able to ride a wave, right and you will see some really inspiring examples of leadership over the next 6,12,18 months.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Travel Investment Marketplace as a Service 285

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There I transitioned into sales leadership. I feel like I’ve been in and around sales since I was a kid, but my first real ”sales” job was while I was in college, back in 2006. My greatest achievement has been promoting 67 different people into leadership. . What do you consider your greatest achievement? . It was fun.

Sales Recruiting 99

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 99

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

A lot of the work that we do is with executive leadership down to the front line teams. I worked at CareerBuilder where I got put through formal leadership development that I think a lot of startup leaders never get. Sam Jacobs : Give us the highlights of your career. Jake Dunlap : I went to college at Missouri State University.

Scale 87

Scale Scaling Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development 87

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. If you take the case of Justin.tv and Twitch, Twitch sold for a billion dollars. But most people don’t really understand the back story. By 2014 it was worth a billion. The entire time.

Sales Hiring 186

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 186

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

A lot of the work that we do is with executive leadership down to the front line teams. I worked at CareerBuilder where I got put through formal leadership development that I think a lot of startup leaders never get. Sam Jacobs : Give us the highlights of your career. Jake Dunlap : I went to college at Missouri State University.

Scale 60

Scale Scaling Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development 60

OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

John Deere, the farm and industrial equipment manufacturer, managed working capital more actively from 2006 on, to increase free cash flow and build resilience against demand volatility. These range from investing for leadership based on a superior strategic and financial position, to readying a weak company for sale.

Scale 59

Scale Strategy Technical Review Automotive 59

Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 12, 2024

X (formerly Twitter) : Since its launch in 2006, X has been a key player in real-time communication. Text is still a powerful way to build communities, share ideas, and grow thought leadership. LinkedIn : Established in 2002, LinkedIn has become the premier professional networking platform with over 1B users. increase from 1.02

Social Media 107

Social Media Trends Data AI Search 107

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Cassie’s time in tech dates back to 2006, when she joined TheLadders.com as an early employee and managed marketing and analytics for the company’s subscription business. The importance of leadership alignment and transparency during times of crisis. How to rebuild and regain customer trust after technical failures.

Scale 82

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 82

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Still, this isn’t 2006 or even 2016. But if they have a strong brand and you aren’t even at scale yet … yes, it can be tough. They’ve started to reach escape velocity, and you haven’t. Today, every category can have multiple unicorns. You have 4-5 related choices. All can work well: Be cheaper.

Enterprise 279

Enterprise Mobile Branding Scaling 279

Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Decreased internal resistance will result from fealty-based screening and fear-based leadership, making quick examples of those who step out of line. In 2006, Clive Humby, coined the phrase data is the new oil , to suggest that data would power the information economy in much the same way as petroleum powered the industrial economy.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review AI Search Software Review AI 79