Neil Patel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Now to be fair, this was back in 2003 when it wasn’t that hard to rank on Google (or any other search engine for that matter). The only issue with this model is that it is really hard to scale. Well, this story will help explain it…. The old days. When I first started my journey as an SEO, I got really good at one thing.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and some verticals that either aren’t affected as much or snap back very quickly. I mean, for a company that had pretty good scale. Cleveland Clinic has roughly the same scale there. I think by segment.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. As the company scales, I expect to see Tableau experiment with generating more consistent, and likely subscription revenue from existing customers either with subscription products, paid upgrades, more collaboration or other features.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

After a decade of expanding complexity in the modern data stack, companies are dramatically simplifying their architectures - and getting better results Second, we’re seeing a renaissance of scale-up computing. Content: I use my MacBook Pro to run 70 billion parameter models, which are equivalent to GPT 3.5

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

For instance, you may be setting up an online shop and your primary consideration may be a low learning curve, whereas somebody else may be thinking about a platform that can allow them to scale easily. This is particularly true if you are already selling products at scale in the real world. Here are some features you should consider.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

We’re helping startups and scale-ups that are strategically aligned with Salesforce, which is actually very important in terms of actually delivering solutions. Scaling support for early-stage startups. Business models are in your favor in terms of hosting, deploying the product and ultimately scaling.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2022

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a customer satisfaction metric measured on a 10-point scale. NPS is a type of user survey developed in 2003 by Bain & Company. It typically involves two questions: the first is using a scale to ask users how likely they are to recommend a product. Take note of these and see what you can do.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 28, 2021

Net Promoter Score (NPS) was first developed in 2003 by Bain and Company and it measures the loyalty of customers to a company. If back in 2003 you’d ask me what are the chances that you’re going to recommend me, my friends, or my family on a scale of 1 to 10? Net Promoter Score scores can range from -100 to 100.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Brady would go on to lead the Patriots to 17 division titles, 13 AFC Championship Games, nine Super Bowl appearances, and six Super Bowl wins before transferring to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 and leading that team to win its first Super Bowl title since 2003. This term applies to more than just athletes and sports, however.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Net Promoter Score is the result of a one-question survey asking the users how likely they’d be to recommend your product on a scale from 1 to 10. The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. Grab our summary: Source: Blueprnt.com.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Developed in 2003 by Bain & Company, NPS has become the predominant customer success framework for two-thirds of the Fortune 1000. NPS Categories NPS questions are rating scale questions rated from 0 (not likely) to 10 (extremely likely). NPS rating scale. Promoters : Customers who respond with a score of 9 or 10.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2022

NPS is a customer feedback strategy developed in 2003. It consists of an 11-point scale and a question asking users how likely they are to recommend a product to their friend or colleague. Your focus should solely be on collecting feedback. Upselling can come much later. Use a NPS survey to understand customer loyalty.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

These customer success processes are often inefficient, haven’t been scaled to engage the full customer base and are hard to measure. Lean customer success is a continuous improvement methodology focused on engineering customer success processes to maximize their impact, efficiency and scale. Implementing lean customer success.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. From Zero to 100: How to Scale Customer Support and Customer Success at Your Startup. But most scale their teams in messy and ineffective ways, leaving them with a large cost burden and very little to show for it.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

If you missed episode 89, check it out here: 89: Using Customer Data Platform to Scale Your Org w/ Pat O’Brien. 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. What You’ll Learn. Lessons Justin learned from a career in startups.

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User Pilot

APRIL 27, 2023

” and asking them to rate it on a scale from 0 to 10. Net Promoter Score, often abbreviated to NPS, was first devised in 2003. Respondents then answer on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 being “ Not Likely ” and 10 being “ Very Likely ”. It’s since become a popular way of measuring customer satisfaction.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

We do budgets on a small scale at Semco. 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.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The first time I worked with Steve was back in 2003. I came on board and built an in-house version of what eventually evolved to become Deputy, and Steve was able to scale his business from 200 to 1,400 people over the next three years. The Catalyst – The Hybrid Product/Human Solution.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This was in 2003 or 2004, and we were spending $2B dollars a year in research which is nothing by today's standards but it was for the most that was being spent at that time. At that point we said look we don't have a business that we can scale because we're trying to be everything to everybody.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Net Promotor Score was created by Fred Reichheld in 2003 and is used by businesses globally. Customer loyalty is a huge aspect for any business to drive success and scale their business. Customers choose an answer on a scale from 0- 10, where 0 is not likely and 10 is highly likely. Like what you are reading?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective? Things are scaling faster. Yammer certainly scaled faster than I scaled back in the day with EchoSign or Aaron when he was here, but the pace of Slack. Jason : A lot has changed since then.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 18, 2022

Recommendations: This is yet another common technique that has been in use since 2003. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo. The pages can be customized according to the customers’ preference or the channel they have been redirected from.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is one where customers evaluate their association with the brand on a scale of 1 to 10. The NPS was developed in 2003 by Fred Reichheld of Bain & Company as a customer loyalty metric. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

In 2003, Michael founded Right Media – the world’s first open exchange for digital advertising. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. Thats where TriNet comes in.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11. Unveil the benefits and realities of remote work.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. Once you’re selling and starting to scale and now you need a team. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

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Kellblog

JULY 11, 2020

build quality product, train and scale sales), then it’s almost definitionally not the single most important challenge facing that company. For example, say it’s 2003 and you’re at CRM leader Siebel Systems. The good reason is that it forces “table stakes” conversations, well, “off the table.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. John Mellor is the Chief Strategy Officer at Domo, the company that allows you to leverage business intelligence at scale to empower your team with data. And that was kind of my entree into SaaS.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You have this perverse economy of scale. They have lower margins and they’re much harder to scale. The value accrues to large companies that can actually seek these perverse economies of scale. The narrative is this episodic thing with summers and winters and all of these false promises. I remember when I joined Ph.D.

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Kellblog

JUNE 7, 2020

Move into adjacent categories, ideally sold to your existing buyer, giving yourself economies of scale in go-to-market and your buyer the ability to buy multiple products on one platform [15]. Ergo, vendors incented by economies of scale in go-to-market, were naturally aligned with buyers who wanted to buy more from fewer vendors.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and celebrated goals that either aren’t effected as much or snap back very quickly. I mean, for a company that had pretty good scale. Cleveland Clinic has roughly the same scale there. I think by segment.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

And make no mistake: this can happen at scale – as it did with Myspace, which died a public death despite having millions of users. As much as I like to bag on about Facebook, they were scaling at such a rate at that stage that the inevitable was going to happen. There is an ROI on good design. And it did.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. We took 14 million that was led by a Salesforce and Scale Ventures line, a couple of other fantastic investors. Dan O’Connell: Yeah. It’s funny. Anytime I tell this story and I was like, “15 years later,” you never figure things will come full circle. So it’s funny.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

Headed into the global financial crisis a decade ago, a group of almost 3,900 companies worldwide that we ran through Bain’s Sustained Value Creators analysis posted double-digit earnings growth, on average, from 2003 to 2007. Identify M&A targets early. Manage costs, now.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale that was previously unthinkable. Check them out at www.outreach.io. Who is Steven Broudy and what is Bevy [2:00].

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Justin made his way into the world of Sales and came to be one of the industry’s leading scale up Sales leaders with PatientPop and ZocDoc. * Having seen multiple scaling culture, where do SaaS organisations tend to break down both in terms of culture and process? Justin Welsh: Yeah.

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