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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I was a software developer, a product person. There’s revenue drive headcount or does headcount drive revenue, and it’s sounds like you’re squarely in the former camp, that you derive headcount from revenue. I actually drive revenue from headcount, but I make sure I have enough stocked away.

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How Stack Overflow Harnesses the Power of Flexible Leadership

OpenView Labs

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. In other words, do the work to develop your initial opinion based on the information you have at your disposal, but then be open to looking at the situation from other points of view.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OKRs were first developed by Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, and they consist of a clearly defined goal (objective) and measures to track achievement of that goal (key results). Horizons Framework Another innovation model is the Horizons Framework developed by McKinsey. Source: ThinkGrowth 2. Source: McKinsey 17.

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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. And once developed, it should occupy, along with Values, a marked amount of time in onboarding/re-boarding processes.

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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

Indeed, although building your own software might seem “seductive,” that allure may be fading. According to IDC research , software purchases will surpass app development in a few years. Additionally, research shows that in 2015, only 29% of in-house software development projects succeeded. And they are not cheap.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

They were clearly property management and software development, and as someone that was hired to accelerate Buildium’s growth I immediately saw countless opportunities to grow the company by moving into new markets. Sure, digital marketing spits off a wake of data and you’re likely going to be working with a bunch of software tools.