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Book Review of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Kellblog

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

Intercom, Inc.

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

Scale 151
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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. Upcoming Webinar.

Scale 95
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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?

Scale 345
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PODCAST 90: Key Mistakes Companies Make while Building their Skills or Revenues w/ Justin Welsh

Sales Hacker

Lessons Justin learned from a career in startups. Lessons Learned from Startups [9:45]. I came out of school in 2003 and really for the first six years of my career, I was pretty much what you would label a complete failure. Lessons Learned from Startups [9:45]. Stuff in really high growth startups are breaking.

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Paid Search Management For SaaS Start-ups - An Interview With Soren Ryherd, CEO, Working Planet

Outseta

In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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Building Customer Success Into The DNA of Your SaaS Start-up - An Interview With Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 20 min read As the SaaS business model has matured over the course of the past decade, it's fair to say that awareness of the importance of the customer success function has escalated dramatically. So it was clear we didn't have that business model. So I went around to the different product teams.