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

Scale 59

Scale Strategy Technical Review Acquisition 59

Audacix

MARCH 20, 2020

Harvard Business Review (HBR) studied business performance after the 2007 recession in the US. Develop a daily virtual huddles schedule that everyone attends Messenger systems like Slack and MS Teams may have revolutionised the way we communicate with our teams, but they are not enough in such strange and disconcerting times.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Systems Review Software Review 52

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

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Software Review Software 40

User Pilot

JULY 30, 2023

Silos most often occur due to company culture, organizational structures, IT deployments, or mergers and acquisitions. Even organizations with existing systems for managing data could fall victim to data silos if individuals or departments go rogue. Due to the wide variety of software solutions, some data could fall through the cracks.

Data 98

Data Systems Review Software Review Company Culture 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

He founded four companies: Skok Systems, Corporate Software Europe, Watermark Software, and SilverStream Software and did one turnaround with Xionics. David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Development Team Review Scale Software Review 148

The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

I’ll be sharing a few specific observations from the S1 review, but let’s start with some more general thoughts about the company. The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement.

Underperforming Technical Team 143

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 143

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 118

Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 118

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

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). While OneNote is a product from the digital solutions major Microsoft, Evernote is an independent product that brings powerful features to the table.

Artificial Intelligence 10

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 10

Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

However, cutting the regular investor out of these options also created a two-tier system, where savvy investors couldn’t get in on enterprising startups. This is largely due to more favorable legislation that has allowed equity crowdfunding companies to grow much more quickly. JOBS Act 2012. Over in the U.K., startup market.

Business 127

Business Technical Review Venture Capital Systems Review 127

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. There’s a vendor review approval process, and a security policy analyst, and their in house counsel wants to mark up the TOS. Then, no matter how much diligence you do, you get in and you realize there’s a different area where you can add the most force multiplier.

Scale 338

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 338

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

That was in no small part due to having a board that was aligned with David’s vision. That is the whole point of this system. It’s like coming together, review a bunch of stuff, and everyone’s like, “Yeah. It’s this proxy card system. In 2007, they were like, “Well, this is way too weird.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 240

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

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.

Scale 156

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Leadership 156

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. They’ll rely on gig workers to match talent demand, for example, and develop systems for effective remote working.

VP of Engineering 52

VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Traceability Scale 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The complexity of systems integration, data warehouse construction, and need for the platform to be flexible mean an analytics solution tied to a single data source is no longer relevant. Embedding your system into a workflow. It helps to be able to promise something like “1-hour response time” for situations where systems are down.

SaaS Payments 58

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payments Enterprise 58

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by America’s Best Companies. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog. You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar : The Sandler Sales Institute’s 7-Step System for Successful Selling.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

ChurnZero

MARCH 27, 2020

Clippy met his demise in 2007 after he was officially fired (we’ll say early retirement). Make sure your walkthroughs integrate with systems that contain customer data (including applications, CRMs, support ticketing systems, finance systems, email, and more), so it has a very deep and broad understanding of customers’ behavioral data.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Systems Review Software Review Scale 52

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 40

Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Since its establishment in 2007, Babbel has grown its business manifold and now is a leader in the language travel market. Because it’s a no-code solution, it’s straightforward to implement and connect existing tools and systems. Personio, The People Operating System. Headquarter: Hamburg, Germany. Orora Tech.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review SaaS Point of Sale Banking 10

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim, thank you for being here.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim, thank you for being here.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim, thank you for being here.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

Relocated to Chicago early in 2007, as you said earlier. The second most common is these semi-annual or annual or at best quarterly performance reviews, which we think are more like compensation reviews because the kind of feedback that really makes a difference to you is getting feedback on this meeting or the next presentation I do.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Artificial Intelligence Travel 78

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s a cybersecurity firm working on a solution for industrial control systems (ICS). DriveNets’s solution comprises two core components – DriveNets Network Operating System and DriveNets Network Orchestrator. Infinidat is a low-cost vendor of InfiniBand hybrid storage systems for the enterprise. Founded in: 2007.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 10