SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

So the time that I was at Google was 2007, so pre the 2008 recession. You’re passionate about diversity and you hire an all white male leadership team. So in our executive leadership meeting two days ago, recency matters, specificity matters. We had 5,000 employees and $14 billion in revenue.

Scale

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

He has worked for & consulted with many organizations & has expertise in sales, sales process, leadership development & the commercialization of new products and services. Rob has received 15 Stevie Awards for Sales and Service since 2007.

Consulting

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

However, it’s hard to argue that something is genuinely new in human endeavors like leadership, politics, and business. A year later, in 2007, Steve Jobs made the phone your browser. This is everyone in a leadership position. Is Blockchain the technology unique? Think the Bitcoin economic phenomenon is new?

Business

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. So there was this leadership evolution that we had to experience as a company.

B2B

OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

So we had to prune back even as we were pivoting the teams and the leadership to chase a new opportunity. Put your best talent and leadership on transformation. Let’s fast-forward to 2007/2008 when you became an EIR for Redpoint Ventures. How has leadership changed in the last few weeks? Something like 2–3X the frequency.

Leadership

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We started the business in 2007. Every time we raised prices, it was a battle between us; Adam and I as the co-founders and the sales leadership and the sales managers and the sales team. From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable. We sold the business in 2012. We’d been in business for five years.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

There are so many great books on behavior change, influence, negotiation, leadership, and decision-making. Collins, 2007. How can we be expected to sell better without a strong understanding of the business side of the transaction? Why is that research not included in traditional sales training? Cited sources: Cialdini, Robert B.

B2B

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Back in the day in 2007, maybe no one was going to give you 10 million in the seed round. And on this one, often when you ask yourself why you’re risk averse in a certain area, you’ll get down to leadership issue, a product issue, you don’t trust execution, so get to the why of why you won’t put the dollars there.

Sales Hiring

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

. “As cloud and SaaS companies were starting to erupt and take off and get funding, we started to see this dilemma of customers churning” It was in 2007, which is not that long ago, but when we think about technology, that was eons ago. 2007 was when the iPhone was launched and when LinkedIn finally became profitable.

Customer Success

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Leadership can really turn around really any area of the company.” You just don’t have the right leadership or structure to get there often. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007. And you were like, “Okay. ” Jason Lemkin: Yeah. One other one on this. I want to get mistake number two first.

Sales Hiring

FastSpring

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In about 2002, I got into more of a leadership position for satellite offices of larger companies. In 2007, I decided to build my first company, MindSea, and in 2018 I went on to start SalesRight. My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. I started with Java 0.9 and have been working in tech ever since.

Technical Review

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

He spends most of his time trying to advance the product-led growth movement, both through thought leadership and investing at pioneers like Expensify and Calendly. He’s been a VC since 2007, and prior to OpenView was at Battery Ventures, where he invested in companies like Glassdoor, Wayfair and Optimizely. What You’ll Learn.

Startup

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Ryan Smith: And so we had to switch and we chose Qualtrics, and it was the best thing we’ve ever done because everything we ever wanted to do, pivot the company or get away from surveys, which in 2007 were like, “Whoa, this is way bigger.” ” We could do it under the Qualtrics umbrella. It takes longer than you think.

Acquisition

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2019

He’s also a featured expert for profit guide in the areas of sales, leadership, and recruitment strategy. ” And so, we started, in 2007, Sales Talent Agency. Jamie runs one of the largest and most successful recruiting agencies specifically for salespeople in Canada. Jamie, welcome to the show.

Sales Recruiting

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

2007: 48 customers. 2007: 15 employees. 2007:$255,000. Most notably, $5 million in VC funding from General Catalyst in 2007, $12 million in VC funding from Matrix Partners in 2008 and $16 million in VC funding from Scale Venture Partners in 2009. 2008: 317 customers. 2009: 1,150 customers. 2010: 3,855 customers.

Payment Features

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

Split payment settlement directly to the artist, beautiful, but this was in 2007, the year Spotify just started. We were talking to a music platform that wanted to enable artists to sell directly to their fans and we were, we built a platform that could cater for that. Way too early, it all failed.

Payment Methods

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s a pattern that can be seen across the 2007–09 recession, the recovery that followed, the slow-growth years of 2011–19, and even during the pandemic period of 2020–21. Although TSR growth varies by industry, we see the same link between productivity leadership and high TSR across industries. Automation and digitization.

VP of Engineering

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The first, launched in India in 2007 while they were teenagers, created radiology software that helped fight female foeticide. “My first interaction with her was, ‘I think you’re in the wrong class,” Bhattacharya said, noting the error of his ways. She got really mad.”. But he managed to smooth things over.

Interviewing

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.

Technical Review

Audacix

AUGUST 11, 2018

In fact, as far back as 2007, Gartner predicted: Although the statistic above related to the BPO industry, our experience tells us that this would also hold true for outsourced software testing engagements. This only serves to diminish the importance of and attention to actually conducting "testing in a more professional manner."

Outsourcing Services

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Steve Jobs’s claim that “ People want to own their music ” rather than rent it might have been right when he said it around the time of the iPhone launch in 2007, but the very fabric of our culture has shifted entirely since then. From movies and TV to music, we now live in a cloud-enabled, subscription-based streaming wonderland.

Payment Solutions

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2016

Large market; logical revenue model; rapid-adoption; stealth/secrecy; proper compensation of the leadership team. To cite one critical counterexample, Concur’s rapid revenue growth in 2006 and 2007 occurred after nearly a decade of tepid expansion. In part one, the authors identify five key factors of success in the early stages.

Startup

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Today’s super dynamic B2B environment mandates everyone in the leadership to be more innovative to get things done! Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. That’s where note-taking and task-management apps enter. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11.

Artificial Intelligence

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. In fact, one of our decisions in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem prem software company?

Startup

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

They pioneered things like content marketing, thought leadership. You can see 2007 to 2008 we went from one to two. And in the case of Marketo, Eloqua was selling heavy software with services and Marketo back in 2008 really pioneered this high velocity selling model. These were the real numbers. We’re way below that.

SaaS

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Wooden on Leadership. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog. Then a mentor’s invitation from the other side of the world powerfully transforms everything as Joshua embarks on the journey of discovering leadership secrets of strategic selling. Steal Like an Artist.

Scale

SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. Is this serious?

Acquisition

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

In fact, one of our decisions, in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem It was particularly tough because when you’re bootstrapped, every single dollar matters. When you make a mistake, that’s a dollar that you don’t have any more. prem software company?

Startup

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities. How are they thinking about growing the company and the leadership team?

Scale

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2019

I joined small business sales in 2007 during the financial crisis. Most of the challenges of management or leadership is people. If we were to say, “We are the sales leadership team for $100 billion company,” what would that mean on the street? Ashley Grech : I spent almost 13 years in banking.

Payments

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. And 89% more US companies lost profitability in the last downturn vs. stable periods.

Scale

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2020

And then, from there we went into the suits slide, where we showed a lineup of head shots of our executive leadership team, all the years they had been in business, and why that made us the most qualified for the job. I recommend that you watch the Steve Jobs iPhone keynote , the original iPhone that came out in 2007.

Entertainment

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Their strategy encompasses four key elements related to LinkedIn branding: Profile Enhancement Lead Generation Establishing Thought Leadership Setting Appointments Their services also include content development, SEO, and paid advertising to help clients establish themselves in their respective fields.

B2B

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In terms of podcasting, I’ve been podcasting since, oh, I don’t know, 2007. I didn’t expect to enjoy leadership; I thought it was boring and that it gets in the way of execution. Again, I think you just get used to it with the reps. Content that stands out. Liam: Yeah, for sure. They can come to me with anything.

Venture Capital

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. And that’s where I think a lot of founding people struggle, is you have to go from being a manager and being able to run one team to building a global, scalable, multi tiered leadership org. You said there cohesive.

Scale

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this year, we redoubled our focus on our enterprise segment where we have a strong leadership position. Whether we start in 2007, 2009, 2001, it’s a slow roll to Act Two, right? And those are the outcomes that we’re looking for. Think of this as something we identified as an advantage.

Scale

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years.

VP of Engineering