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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

What would happen is one of the development guys would come to me and say ‘We need more cloud hosting servers, I think we should use these, can we do it?’ We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. and I’d ask, ‘Do we need to get more servers?’ to which they would say ‘yes’, so I said ‘yes’.

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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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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. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses. Founded in: 1982. Founder(s): Charles Geschke, John Warnock.