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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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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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11 Frameworks for Product Innovation

Baremetrics

Clubhouse is the project management software just for software development teams. Train custom machine learning models to get topic, sentiment, intent, keywords and more for customer support, product insights, and software development workflows. Platformization Examples.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience. They were clearly property management and software development, and as someone that was hired to accelerate Buildium’s growth I immediately saw countless opportunities to grow the company by moving into new markets.