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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

Headcount and person-hours necessary for development and support is often a total guess unless you’re working in an organization that has done this sort of work before,” writes Blair Reeves, Product Principal at SAS Software. Generally speaking, retailers, airlines, banks and other non-software firms are not.

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Making Trade-Offs In Marketing with Meagen Eisenberg (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re going through layoffs and furloughs, recession planning and for me as the CMO, facing really massive cuts to marketing budgets and headcount. Our suppliers came in, our airlines and hotels came in and started contributing content. We’re looking at everything we do from software to people. Our workforce is remote.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

” I think the “Sure thing boss, give me more headcount” is obvious. Whereas if things are going well and you’re beating your targets and you can continue to invest in sustainable headcount growth next year, then I think there’s more opportunity to bet on something that will take place tomorrow.

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