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What’s New at Automattic and WordPress with Co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

SaaStr

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. What’s the Business Model Behind Automattic and WordPress? A year later, they created Automattic as a commercial services business around WordPress.

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Book Review of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Kellblog

For example, say it’s 2003 and you’re at CRM leader Siebel Systems. Your biggest strategic challenge is your indirect competitor Salesforce.com, who is disrupting the business model with software as a service.

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Customer Growth Game Changer: Totango Breaking Records and Rewriting the Rules for Customer Success

Totango

Brady would go on to lead the Patriots to 17 division titles, 13 AFC Championship Games, nine Super Bowl appearances, and six Super Bowl wins before transferring to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 and leading that team to win its first Super Bowl title since 2003. This term applies to more than just athletes and sports, however.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS.

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Benchmarking Tableau's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. There is a tradeoff between the predictability of the SaaS business model and the margins of a perpetual license model. In these plots, I’ve used Tableau’s colors as a consistent legend.

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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

Headed into the global financial crisis a decade ago, a group of almost 3,900 companies worldwide that we ran through Bain’s Sustained Value Creators analysis posted double-digit earnings growth, on average, from 2003 to 2007. What specifically distinguishes eventual winners?

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Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS

ChurnZero

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. Since then it has been used heavily by companies, both large and small, to assess customer satisfaction and has become an important metric for growth-driven technology businesses.

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