Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2022

This is an awful place from which to make decisions. I personally had some of the best sales successes during the 2008 recession and I was not the most talented salesperson. Whether you are a sales leader, company founder, or sales professional, you can apply these points to your advantage to set yourself up for growth in a recession.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model. AWS needs adequate time to get a skeptical developer to understand the value that they offer, to get the developer hooked on the product and build on top of it, and to eventually recommend AWS to a fellow developer.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. Jeff : Basically, we launched voice in 2008, very end of 2008. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. We had already achieved the mission, so after 2008 we backed off the pedal, so to speak. “We’re really trying to accelerate success.

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Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It is often not an advantage at all, but simply the first thing to demonstrate to customers: “We’ve been developing iOS Apps since 2008”. Here are some possible benefits to roll out on your site to capture the attention of potential customers. We are cheaper. The customer’s pain point: Software developers are awfully expensive.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. Capillary Technologies was founded in 2008 by Ajay Modani, Aneesh Reddy, and Krishna Mehra. Found in 2008 by Aditya Sanghi and Prabhash Bhatnagar, provides a cloud-based solution to manage hotels and properties.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This was 2008. They’re awful. I know I’m going to. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing today. So what should I do? Where should I get started?” ” And his answer surprised me. It was sales. So going through the recession, but just in general, sales was not talked about in the curriculum in school.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Founded in: 2008. Founded in: 2008. Founded in: 1982. Founder(s): Charles Geschke, John Warnock. Founder (s): Tom Preston-Werner, P.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2022

So this was a Truly Terrible, Very Bad, Just Plain Awful year for SaaS IPOs — and IPOs in general. In fact, IPOs had their biggest slump since 2008: IPO listing volume is down a stunning 93%(!) The IPO window is closed. Shut, mostly. since 2021. Last year, it seemed like everyone at $100m+ ARR could IPO.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, will big companies ever really use AWS? I’m Michelle Zatlyn.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

She has been working virtually since 2008 and has spent her career as a leader, coach, and advisor managing technical overhead and optimizing operational infrastructure to drive continuous improvement. Be you, you’re even better than you know, and you’ve got this! Lindy Jones.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Blockbuster’s former CEO, Jim Keyes, told the Motley Fool in 2008 that Netflix isn’t ‘even on the radar screen in terms of competition.’ They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. By 2010, Blockbuster had gone bankrupt.”. Then, Sony’s transistor radios arrived on the scene.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front row seat at some of these turnarounds at iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap, which is undergoing its own transformation. E-commerce is on fire. Look at Shopify.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare. And so we started to work on this in 2009.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. 78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Twice for retail.

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