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

Tom Tunguz

At the time of its IPO, the company was only investing about 75% of its revenue and sales and marketing. After the company successfully completed its IPO, the company would increase its annual sales and marketing budget by 6X year-over-year to $230M and $298M in 2000 and 2001, at precisely the wrong time. The company spent $46.4M

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Engineering Customer Success Processes for Maximum Impact

Valuize Consulting

Today, many businesses are investing in customer success technology in the hope that ‘plugging it in’ will solve the challenges that come with their current reality. Unfortunately, these are often a collection of steps branded as ‘playbooks’ that lack integration with other key processes in sales and marketing. That’s a false hope.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Where agile began I was managing software development projects at Viant in February 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. Big as in a 143 page PDF. A whole six-week cycle (a Big Batch)?

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more.