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

SaaStr

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book. We could have been way more viral had we done mobile from the beginning.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

The tech companies that I cited in my examples above all practiced agile software development, for example. The basic premise of agile software development is that fast iterations rather than a few larger leaps will help products progress faster. For whatever reason, these items remain fairly rigid.