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

Tom Tunguz

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. Presumably this is due to customer churn, as a fair number of their customers must have gone out of business.

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Engineering Customer Success Processes for Maximum Impact

Valuize Consulting

And according to the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA), only 26% of Customer Success organizations have aligned their customer success processes to their customer journeys. Customer success technology will simply inherit the silos, inefficiency and ineffectiveness baked into your current customer success processes.

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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. Total cost, well over $100K.

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The Missed Opportunity of Agile SaaS

Chaotic Flow

IMHO, adopting and mastering agile software development, agile marketing and pretty much agile everything should be a priority of every SaaS business. The roots of agile software development and agile marketing lie in agile manufacturing , lean manufacturing and total quality methodologies. A Little Agile History.

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