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Breaking Into Enterprise Customers at Shopify

Business of Software Conference

Breaking Into Enterprise Customers at Shopify. Shopify Plus was launched in 2014 to offer large & hypergrowth businesses a customizable enterprise platform without the cost of existing options. That wasn’t the case for larger enterprises who were more used to building large, complex solutions to sell online.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." As more enterprises turn digital, this will become a stronger need for them.

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Moving upmarket as a product manager: What changes and what stays the same?

Intercom, Inc.

In recent years we have increasingly focused on upmarket, enterprise-scale customers. This is a natural evolution for many SaaS tools as they move towards a healthier economic model, as captured in Christoph Janz’s seminal 2014 blog. But one thing is consistent across every product management role – a deep focus on the customer. .

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Median SaaS Valuations Drop 24% in Q1 2022

DevelopmentCorporate

Median Enterprise Value/Revenue (ttm) multiples dropped 24% in comparison to Q4 2021. SaaS Enterprise Value/Revenue Multiples 2014 – 2022 High Flying SaaS Companies Have Taken a Major […]. As Q1 ended, the impact of the recent market downturn in SaaS company valuations could clearly be seen.

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Bootstrapping To 10 Million – The Story Of Kovai.co

Userpilot

is a leading enterprise organization powering top companies worldwide, including the BBC, Novartis, and Pfizer. In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. In the same year of its launch, Saravana closed on 5 inbound enterprise customers for BizTalk360. 2,000+ customers.

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Seven Things you can Learn From WeChat Product Development

Mind the Product

Enterprise WeChat (WeChat for Work). Early last year, Enterprise WeChat (Qiye Weixin) was launched to target large companies. Chinese users have been able to book a taxi with ride-sharing and taxi-hailing service Didi since January 2014. It is just like UberEats (started August 2014) inside WeChat. WeChat Mobile Payment.

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The art of the pivot, part 2: How, why, and when to pivot

Lenny Rachitsky

Or we were listening to customers and heard more advanced and significant business use cases, like better security, business processes, and sharing files across enterprise. I think it was winter 2014 when we first started seriously discussing the Discord concept.”