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How Oracle Thrived in the 2008 Recession, Even with Missed Revenue Opportunities

SBI Growth

The year is 2007. The real estate market is flush. Stocks are booming. Getting a loan has never been easier. Companies are investing in themselves, growing their businesses, and increasing shareholder value. Now fast forward to 2008. The real estate bubble.

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Enterprise sales lessons: How I almost closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close.io

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. It was mid 2007. We didn’t know about enterprise sales. So we did it: we decided to go B2B and try the enterprise sales route. I still remember thinking “everybody says enterprise sales is so hard… this isn’t hard.

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Enterprise Sales Lessons: How I Almost Closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up.From B2C to B2B It was mid 2007. We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer.

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For 2nd Year in a Row, CIENCE Honored on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List

Cience

500, was expanded in 2007 to Inc. Being recognized as one of the 5000 allows companies to connect with the community of peers and use this credibility as a resource for getting new sales and opens up new opportunities. The multiplatform content won multiple awards and has an audience of more than 50 million people. s annual list.

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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Green Lead's B2B

Back in 2007, Linda and I had no idea we would have built a global pipeline generation company that the Fortune 1000 and some of the biggest tech firms in the industry would trust to generate their sale pipeline from high level Ideal Customer Profile leads (ICPs) to booked and confirmed Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs, or appointments).

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Scaling Lead Gen: Growing NetSuite’s BDR Team to 170 People in 3.5 Years

Openview

Founded in 1998, they IPO’d in 2007 and were ultimately acquired by Oracle for $9.3B Second, Oracle had doubled down on college hiring and third, we had two senior sales leaders who were begging for the outbound model. We started the BDR team to “build” ERP sales reps. I couldn’t hire managers or reps fast enough.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server?

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server? Two of the leading choices are Microsoft SQL 2005 and Oracle Database 10g. As expected, the Oracle databases supported more users per database (2 to 1) and larger volume size (3.6 per user for Oracle. per user for Oracle.

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