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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Jason : Stewart, picking up on that, I didn’t become a Slack groupie until about three months ago when I was building some product for SaaStr, and then I got it, when I actually had to build software. Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. We’re groupies. I’m a fanboy.

Scale 352
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Top 8 SaaS Development Companies in 2024

How To Buy Saas

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. The SaaS development market evolves rapidly and, according to Fortune Business Insights, by 2030, will reach 908 billion dollars. Businesses of any size and industry can find reliable SaaS development partners.

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How open source changed everything — again

IT World

Reading back through predictions made in 2009, no one had the foggiest clue that GitHub would change software development forever (and for everyone), or that Microsoft would go from open source pariah to the world’s largest contributor, or a host of other dramatic changes that became the new normal during a decade that was anything but normal.

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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business. It sold software to help businesses buy the things they need in order to operate, everything from pens to planes.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? Jeff Lawson: You know, software.

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Why your organization needs a mobile CRM strategy

Teamgate

CRM strategy has also been observed to be commonly used between Business-to-Customers (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations to manage and track various kinds of communication through the internet, mobile software, chat, emails, social media platforms, telephone calls and series of corporate marketing materials. .

Mobile 95
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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

OpenView Labs

The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. I’ll never forget the ERP provider who snickered as they installed their software. I could go on… and on. And I’d be happy to share my research.

Scale 84