3 Essential Procurement Services For Small and Middle Market Businesses
We’re big believers that 2013 is going to be the year that procurement technology adoption takes off in the SMB procurement market. But which technologies across the source-to-pay continuum are most suited to small and middle market environments? Hint: it’s only a handful. Granted, there are opportunities for the full suite of capabilities (including strategic [...]
NetSuite deepens Retail presence
I have written about the attractiveness of NetSuite’s cross-channel “commerce-as-a-service” capabilities to fast growing retailers like Ibex. Ibex uses NetSuite to manage customer interactions across smartphones, tablets, PCs and brick-and-mortar stores. So, I am not surprised to see NetSuite acquire Retail Anywhere’s business. Retail Anywhere has sold Point of Sales functionality on traditional POS terminals [...]
Can We Ignore Churn Early On at a SaaS Company?
Jason Lemkin has my juices flowing again. He’s published a blog post with the suggestion that you should ignore churn and length of sales cycle as key management metrics when a SaaS company is young. I’m with him on the Sales Cycle–it’ll be all over the map in the early days. But on churn? Nope, [...]
No office, no boss, no boundaries: The Life of a Bootstrapper
I loved this CNN article that I found courtesy of Hacker News, except for the sketchy spin on loneliness. It captures some of the lifestyle I’d like to have, though I’m not there yet. I have been able to quit my day job, but I’m still low enough in six figures and busy enough with [...]
Content Management in the Social Age
I read this interesting piece on the redesign of the Reuters website, one paragraph jumped out at me as a consequential observation affecting a wide array of companies today: Known internally as “Reuters Next,” the new reuters.com will be a “state of the art” offering with a redesigned front-end and a proprietary content management system [...]
