SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday. It’s interesting to see how much has changed over the last 10 years, but in 2008 it was a very different time I think.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. And in an increasing number of cases, marketers as well.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Ciara : And Shanee is the head of marketing and growth at Crunchbase, leading innovative companies to connect with the people behind them and pursue new opportunities. Ciara : So you guys are all innovators in very unique ways in this area. This super complex tool that I have at work that I could never use in my personal life.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. With this, it is expected to grow by 5% annually.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We launched the company in 2008.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

“A majority of the innovations that we’ve seen our customers build, we had never imagined when we were building the platform” With that model of taking an apps business and importing it over to your platform, the biggest cognitive dissonance that happens is, you don’t start out with a very predefined, prescribed set of use cases. .

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