{"id":1051,"date":"2017-09-07T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:38:15","slug":"pos-will-be-discovered-bought-for-their-integrations-i-e-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/pos-will-be-discovered-bought-for-their-integrations-i-e-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"POS Will Be Discovered &#038; Bought for Their Integrations (i.e. Apps)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Frazier, a good friend of ours who runs <a href=\"http:\/\/pos-advice.com\">POS-Advice<\/a>, forwarded us <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.openviewpartners.com\/slack-saas-growth-strategy\/\">a great write up <\/a>on <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\">Slack<\/a>, a messaging company from Silicon Valley. If you're not familiar with Slack, here's a brief rundown:<\/p><ul>\n<li>Slack's founder, Stewart Butterfield, also founded and sold Flickr. In both instances he tried creating a totally different company, failed, and wound up being incredibly lucky. Slack was originally a failed video game company, for example<\/li>\n<li>Slack is the fastest growing SaaS business of all time - from $0 to $4B valuation in &lt; 4 years<\/li>\n<li>They're adding $1MM of revenue every 11 days<\/li>\n<li>77% of the Fortune 100 use them<\/li>\n<li>Their user growth, below, is nearly 100% organic by word of mouth<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Frazier, a good friend of ours who runs POS-Advice, forwarded us a great write up on Slack, a messaging company from Silicon Valley. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Slack, here&#8217;s a brief rundown: Slack&#8217;s founder, Stewart Butterfield, also founded and sold Flickr. In both instances he tried creating a totally different company, failed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-gX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/a1.png?fit=662%2C430&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}