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

ConversionXL

7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. launched a contact management software.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. billion dollar test and measurement company.

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Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud

Agile VC

Remember Lou Gerstner ran American Express before taking the helm at IBM in 1993. Microsoft is an enormous ship and reinventing the company would be non-trivial for anyone, so I don’t think the choice is an obvious one. 2) Divest the consumer facing businesses in mobile hardware, gaming, and online services.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

Schwartzfarb set out to create a guide for anyone interested in starting, growing or leading a modern startup so that they can hit the ground running with a solid plan and foundation with agile and effective sales teams, so that they can avoid and manage the hazards all startups face.

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