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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. * First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? What is the process to do it efficiently?

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Why You (Probably) Shouldn’t Panic About a Recession

Sales Hacker

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. In a press release , the financial process automation firm confirmed a 124% increase in its payment volume. Engineering. IntelliJ IDEA. Salesforce.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

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Top 10 Resources To Help You Manage Your SaaS Sales Like a Genius

Incredo

Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. The same goes for the website, customer support, and user onboarding. Focus: Product and Customer Journey. Focus: Customer Onboarding and Face-to-Face Conversion.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. It stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures.