Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It sure does feel like 2005. PLG brings many good ideas that companies should consider and map to their own business models. Maybe Tim O’Reilly, the person who coined the phrase web 2.0 , has the best take [8], arguing simply that it’s too early to get excited about web3. Everyone is talking about them.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. Risk avoidance – Firms are unwilling to pivot from existing business models that still produce revenue.

Strategy 74

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 74

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book " Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant" by professors W. Risk avoidance – Firms are unwilling to pivot from existing business models that still produce revenue.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. That’s where we met 11 years ago.

Scale 46

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 46

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. Harry Stebbings: No, I do get you in terms of not adjustment.

Scale 161

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 161

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

So in 2005 when we announced the AppExchange, we actually had at that point 70 applications that would then be ready for launch in January. Obviously we’ve seen a lot of changes in terms of tech and business models, but what would you say has stayed the same in that space? Marc is always wanting more.

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Scale Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence AI 151

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Adapting to remote work and eschewing business travel has forced a change – the events of the last year has already fundamentally changed how and where we do business. There’s opportunity in change, already this serial entrepreneur is looking at new business models born out of the current situation.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

I tried to raise money in London back in 2005. I’d say different set of business model triggers, I think, here. You have an enterprise founder sitting in the audience today, debating whether the move is necessary to ask either you or an outpost or a sales team there. What advice would you give? Ross : It was brutal.

Technical Advisors 155

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 155

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. All of this leads to a business model which I think is the emerging post-SaaS business model, which is really you get SaaS enterprise customers like we do. Want to see more content like this?

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. She’s got an English degree and an MBA. This is who we are and how we are.”

CTO Coach 136

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 136

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Walk us through the basic business model. Brandon Meyers: There’s kind of an evolution of our business, and maybe I can take you guys through that as well. And then in 2005, we’re very close to the place where the auto industry was required to receive a federal bailout.

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Aaron Levie: I think what’s happening is, is companies are realizing that the really big sort of flip the business model on its head project and we’re going to go and do a distributed ledger technology and all this, that’s going to have to get punted because we’re in core survival mode right now.

Sales Recruiting 145

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 145

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

What’s the Business Model Behind Automattic and WordPress? A year later, they created Automattic as a commercial services business around WordPress. Automattic was started in 2005 to democratize publishing, and WooCommerce was purchased in 2016 to democratize e-commerce. Matt co-founded WordPress when he was 19.

Underperforming Technical Team 266

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 266

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

In that one sentence Dyson created the most prolific business model of the next two decades: freemium. Wilson calls it his favorite business model, and points to examples such as Skype, Flickr, Trillian, Newsgator, Box, and Webroot as paradigms. Do we have a word for this business model? Acquired by Yahoo!

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

User Pilot

MAY 19, 2021

At 19, Pete Cashmore launched Mashable in 2005 and grew it to two million readers in less than two years, without ads. This SaaS marketing strategy works best with a freemium business model or free/paid trials because nearly 75% of buyers say they’d rather buy through an app/website than a salesperson. Source: Mashable.com.

B2B 119

B2B Marketing SaaS Social Media 119

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

” When I took the helm at Evernote in 2005, many people had written the company off. Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny which is in fact what we did.

Scale 244

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 244

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

” When I took the helm at Evernote in 2005, many people had written the company off. Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing, to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny, which is in fact what we did.

Scale 182

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 182