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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. It was 2003. All manual operations.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Bob Baughman, previously with Polycom and Marvell, as Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Baughman is Calxeda’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. Let me also add that there’s little as powerful as a marketing person that’s also strong at product.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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8 Risky Business Investments That Paid Off Big

YoungUpstarts

AMF’s decision to streamline production and slash the workforce resulted in labor strikes, low quality motorcycles, and declining sales. During the late ’90s, Apple was struggling to meet sales goals and internal power struggles were greatly to blame. Crew, was once on the fritz with plummeting sales and branding issues.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999. Thanks to Emil Lolby , BuffetGO ! #34