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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

” His dismemberment of bad strategy is so surgical and so deft that it alone is worth the price of the book. 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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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. As mentioned above, these small initial deployments ultimately lead to much larger enterprise licenses measuring at least in the five figures and the pricing is part-and-parcel of the land and expand strategy.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business?

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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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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. Anatomy of a Detractor.

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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

Several structural changes will combine to sound the starting gun to a new business cycle, including: The end of non-tech business. An array of evolving technologies will substantially alter customer behavior and demand in many sectors, disrupting both volume and price. What specifically distinguishes eventual winners?

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