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June 4, 2008
You know your company is a leader when...
You know you work for a market leader when...
- your company is mentioned as a competitor whenever they talk about the 500-pound gorilla
- your direct competitors aren't even listed in the same article
- other products in similar categories play catchup with yours by adding connectors and partnerships they should have had in the first place
- your CEO and co-founder is invited to debate with the Prime Minister of your country (and "your country" is one the majority of people know where it is on the map) - yes, I am planning to get more mileage out of this one ;-)
- your VP of marketing (yours truly) gets interviewed/podcasted/videocasted by industry experts wherever he goes - Chicago, Munich, Paris...
- your sales guys are signing one new customer per day
- your product has been downloaded 250,000 times and the above mentioned 500-pound gorilla only has 3,000 customers
Next step: becoming a household name. Which will be proven true when my wife won't have anymore to explain to her friends what the heck "open source data integration" is about, beside flying around the globe and working at crazy hours.
Posted by Yves de Montcheuil at June 4, 2008 3:45 PM
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