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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

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” The Numbers Behind the Discipline: 2008 : $4M Series A from Emergence Capital (300x return, reportedly returned entire fund 7x over) 2012 : $18.8M I was a software developer, product person. I was too conservative. But you have no chance for being great if all you’re doing is following the herd.”

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How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO

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GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot.

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Who Is Tooey Couremanche Founder and CEO of Procore

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Three Lesser-Known Facts: Before settling on construction software, Couremanche experimented with several other business ideas, including ventures unrelated to construction technology. In the early days of Procore, he personally coded parts of the initial software despite not having formal training as a software developer.

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Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments

Tom Tunguz

When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success. In 2008, tightfistedness dominated the market. In my notebook, I sketched this 2x2.

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How Your Startup's Org Chart Changes Your Product

Tom Tunguz

Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. In 2008, Alan MacCormack and his co-authors researched and validated Conway’s Law in HBR by studying the software produced by companies and contrasting that with open source software produced by communities. The public relations team has a webpage.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

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From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. His tenure at Atlassian began in 2008 where he rose from VP of Sales and Marketing to President.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. It is full-service agile software development, UI/UX and data science consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. Since 2008, she has been on the SAP team.