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Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments

Tom Tunguz

When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success. In 2008, tightfistedness dominated the market. In my notebook, I sketched this 2x2.

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How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO

SaaStr

GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot.

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How Your Startup's Org Chart Changes Your Product

Tom Tunguz

Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. In 2008, Alan MacCormack and his co-authors researched and validated Conway’s Law in HBR by studying the software produced by companies and contrasting that with open source software produced by communities. The public relations team has a webpage.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. His tenure at Atlassian began in 2008 where he rose from VP of Sales and Marketing to President.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. It is full-service agile software development, UI/UX and data science consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. Since 2008, she has been on the SAP team.

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

SaaStr

Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, text messages, and other communications through its web service APIs. He went on to become the founding CTO at Stubhub, Technical Product Manager with Amazon and finally Founder and CTO of Nine Star from 200-2008. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Agile Agile software development has been such a success that people now apply the “agile” moniker to a broad range of areas. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness brought the theory worldwide attention back in 2008. This mental model helps teams focus on delivering results, rather than perfection.