Tom Tunguz

JULY 29, 2015

In 2006, according to the company’s S-1, the business shifted from longer term contracts to one year contracts. As the company disclosed in their last annual report , Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, owns 47.4% of Netsuite common stock, implying the company is strategically important to Oracle.

Benchmarks 101

Benchmarks Outsourced Development Metrics Scale 101

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2006, Brian and Dharmesh started HubSpot with the aim of helping people grow their businesses through a less intrusive, more human approach to marketing. How to start a cult like HubSpot” , using the Internet to promote your product wasn’t a new idea in 2006. HubSpot employees: 2006: 3 employees. 2007: 48 customers.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. I struck up some partnerships and we did some stuff but there wasn’t strong kind of leadership or even that many hires around sales partnership or marketing. And then once you’ve built out some of that function, then you can think about more like leadership roles.

Sales Hiring 84

Sales Hiring Banking Scale Pricing 84

BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Her leadership at companies like Group Nine Media and Everyday Health has prepared her to successfully take on her new role as BetterCloud’s first chief people officer (CPO). Then I returned to New York City in 2006, and I’ve been here ever since. I went to Northeastern University in Boston, where I lived for almost 10 years.

Scale 40

Scale Travel Leadership Compensation 40

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. This work is necessary and important but it doesn’t help you win against the competition. To do that, you have to make sure the majority of your energy, time, and dollars goes into your core idea. Cloud computing is dominant.

Software Review 224

Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2018

We consider sales enablement to be a bottom of the funnel (BOFU) function, but after listening to the sales and marketing leadership it became apparent that I could have the biggest impact by strategically focussing on the bottom of the BOFU, and providing “deal closing optimisation” activities to the business.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Sales Enablement Software Review 112

TriTuns

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since 2006, Tri Tuns has been solely focused on helping SaaS vendors and buyers, all over the world, learn how to drive, accelerate and sustain adoption of technology. . And this is why the role of Customer Success is so important in helping organizations identify and adapt to the changes (e.g.,

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Software Technology Enterprise 40

Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Talk to the people at the coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: “You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 75

DevOps as a Service Cybersecurity Scale New CTO 75

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing. You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

TriTuns

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since 2006, Tri Tuns has been solely focused on helping SaaS vendors and buyers, all over the world, learn how to drive, accelerate and sustain adoption of technology. . And this is why the role of Customer Success is so important in helping organizations identify and adapt to the changes (e.g.,

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Software Technology Strategy 40

OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

John Deere, the farm and industrial equipment manufacturer, managed working capital more actively from 2006 on, to increase free cash flow and build resilience against demand volatility. These range from investing for leadership based on a superior strategic and financial position, to readying a weak company for sale.

Scale 59

Scale Strategy Technical Review Automotive 59

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Talk to the people at the DevOps coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. Weebly currently powers over 50 million websites and has been around since 2006, which is a huge achievement and testament to how effective the platform is.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. If you take the case of Justin.tv and Twitch, Twitch sold for a billion dollars. But most people don’t really understand the back story. By 2014 it was worth a billion. The entire time.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 165

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The company was founded all the way back in 2006, amazingly. The first is just literally funding the company in 2006. But back in 2006 they were fighting conventional wisdom and the conventional wisdom at that time was that you could not make money selling software to marketers. So this was the Marketo journey.

SaaS 141

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 141

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The WebPT store starts in 2006. We started building in 2006. It included this thought leadership, hey we need to put this out there because in general, physical therapists are not recognized for their expertise in the greater health care industry landscape. That’s exactly what we did. We launched the company in 2008.

Scale 168

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 168

Kellblog

JULY 4, 2020

If you take a breath, pause, and think about what it means to create branded features — to your branding, to your comprehensibility, to your industry leadership, to your international operations, to your legal strategy (and associated costs) — you’ll decide to pass on branded features every single time. # # #.

Branding 96

Branding Leadership Innovation Startup 96

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Private capital funds under his leadership it’s become one of the leading investors in M&A advisory firms in Canada. It started in a backyard in 2006; I invested when they had one location in 2014. Maybe because of my genetics background, I always view investment opportunities through the lens somehow of genetics.

Scale 69

Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review Investment 69

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. So I would say that’s a leadership failure for a lot of CEOs, right? So coach toward the leadership piece of it. It’s like a pathological meritocracy, you know? It’s like I don’t care what you did before. I don’t give a s**t. I don’t care.

Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 155

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

A lot of the work that we do is with executive leadership down to the front line teams. I worked at CareerBuilder where I got put through formal leadership development that I think a lot of startup leaders never get. Sam Jacobs : Give us the highlights of your career. Jake Dunlap : I went to college at Missouri State University.

Scale 62

Scale Scaling Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development 62

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

A lot of the work that we do is with executive leadership down to the front line teams. I worked at CareerBuilder where I got put through formal leadership development that I think a lot of startup leaders never get. Sam Jacobs : Give us the highlights of your career. Jake Dunlap : I went to college at Missouri State University.

Scale 49

Scale Scaling Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development 49

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Are you ready to create predictable revenue based solely on your leadership skills? I joined the ranks of Prime Point Media in 2006 selling national accounts, and by 2008 I had built the entire Midwest territory. I have used multiple marketing techniques during my rise through leadership to get my foot in the door.

Sales Hiring 69

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 69

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There I transitioned into sales leadership. I feel like I’ve been in and around sales since I was a kid, but my first real ”sales” job was while I was in college, back in 2006. My greatest achievement has been promoting 67 different people into leadership. . What do you consider your greatest achievement? . It was fun.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We started in 2006, so it shows you that you can go a long way without having a great developer experience, except that expectations have changed a lot. We launched a bunch of API’s, we had pretty bad documentation for them, people still built on top of it, but we didn’t really have a platform strategy at the time.

Payments 119

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 119

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In nearly every introductory conversation, the discussion quickly turns to the path each person took that brought them to Sales Operations leadership. . Out of the necessity to explain Sales Ops to my peers in executive leadership and to guide my team, I built the chart which you will find below. The Enablement Era.

Sales 10

Sales Technical Review Systems Review Sales Enablement 10

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Still, this isn’t 2006 or even 2016. But if they have a strong brand and you aren’t even at scale yet … yes, it can be tough. They’ve started to reach escape velocity, and you haven’t. Today, every category can have multiple unicorns. You have 4-5 related choices. All can work well: Be cheaper.

Enterprise 229

Enterprise Mobile Branding Scaling 229

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

And then they went out for their actual IPO in 2005, 2006 timeframe. But leadership is about what you do in those moments, not when you hit the lucky truck, and you’re able to ride a wave, right and you will see some really inspiring examples of leadership over the next 6,12,18 months.

Venture Capital 216

Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. And it was exciting to me because at the time, this was 2006, it was to go on the web to get off the web, right? Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. RELATED: The Straightforward Truth About Effective Sales Leadership. We’re on iTunes.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63