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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

It’s worth noting that Semler’s company is doing this at scale - the business has thousands of employees, and has grown revenues from $4mm in 1984 to $212mm in 2003 - all the while pioneering self management practices like their approach to budgeting. We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas.

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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. And so, you’ve got this tendency to evaluate scenarios in your head, and some of those scenarios are pretty awful.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. Just from a platform perspective, we can look at it: everybody knows from the AWS perspective how inexpensive it is to go to market.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Founded in: 2003. Since its inception in 2003, Splunk has been at the forefront of data solutions. Founded in: 2003.