Salesforce: Business Breakdowns Research
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Assess the potential and spot the openings: “We spent a lot of time thinking about ‘What is the market for this?’ Spreadsheets have been around forever, but most of the time, people use them to track objects: people, companies, simple tables. They're not doing modeling and number crunching, which they were invented for,” says Ofstad. “And wh
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I think of enterprise software in two general periods: BS and ASS (Before Salesforce and After Salesforce’s Success).
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Acquisitions significantly accelerate product line extensions, too, serving as a sort of outsourced development. This too has been part of SAP’s playbook, as proven by their ambitious acquisition program.
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Some takeaways from Acquired’s episode on AWS:
A) There are 3 stories about how AWS was founded (#3 seems to be most true):
1) Amazon’s servers had excess capacity for most of the year (they were staffed up to handle holiday season volume), so they decided to make some use out of it by renting it out to 3rd parties.
2) Tim O’Reilly (book publisher / W
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