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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Jessica Lin : Awesome.

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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

Over the years, HubSpot continued pouring money into inbound marketing, and as a result, they now have an incredible lead generation system. 2007: 48 customers. 2007: 15 employees. 2007: 15 employees. 2007:$255,000. So, they chose to focus on growing fast and achieving industry leadership in their space.

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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

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. It’s instructive to review each in more detail. Restructure costs before the downturn, without cutting muscle.

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These 6 hidden reasons explain why your outsourced software testing isn't working

Audacix

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. We have a very clear and concise three-pronged system for communicating and addressing failure within our projects.

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Evernote vs Onenote? Or High Time to Move to New-Age Playbooks?

SmartKarrot

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. Both the applications support majority of desktop and mobile operating systems (OSs).

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. And I always like to say too bad it wasn’t Larry and Sergey who were starting Uber at the time.

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Oracle’s Catherine Blackmore on the evolution of customer success

Intercom, Inc.

. “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.