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

SaaStr

Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. I know, because we were working on a game, we started our company in the beginning of 2009, and we completely missed the boat. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated.

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

SaaStr

He went on to serve as CEO of Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data before joining Rational Software as President and COO until its acquisition by IBM. From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock. He was the CFO of SQA and Orange Nassau. Tom was CEO of Adaptive Insights which was acquired by Workday in June of 2018 for $1.5B.

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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development. Of course, given the large size of professional services contracts, a fair amount of custom software development was completed at the behest of customers. Ariba attained profitability in 2009 for the first time.

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How open source changed everything — again

IT World

Reading back through predictions made in 2009, no one had the foggiest clue that GitHub would change software development forever (and for everyone), or that Microsoft would go from open source pariah to the world’s largest contributor, or a host of other dramatic changes that became the new normal during a decade that was anything but normal.

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Why your organization needs a mobile CRM strategy

Teamgate

CRM strategy has also been observed to be commonly used between Business-to-Customers (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations to manage and track various kinds of communication through the internet, mobile software, chat, emails, social media platforms, telephone calls and series of corporate marketing materials. .

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

Luckily for me, I found myself in a position where I was leading a design team in New York and an organization that was transitioning from waterfall software development to agile software development. I wasn’t willing to continue down that path if this was the way it was going to be for the next 10 years.

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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

OpenView Labs

The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically.

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