Business Model Disruption and Dealing with Change
A couple of recent events and some commentary around them got me thinking about the current state of business, the pressure to change and how companies respond to the need to change. Change impacts people and organizations in many different…
The Value of Advisory Boards to Trident Capital’s Investments
Last summer I had written about how our firm is organized around four core investment areas (Adtech/Internet, SaaS/cloud, security, and healthcare IT). Each of these areas has a dedicated investment team that is able to invest on both early and late stage opportunities, as well as its own advisory board. An investment team meets with [...]
Looking Ahead: Today’s Disruptions, Tomorrow’s Enterprise
Today if you ask me what the most disruptive and impactful technology “pillars” are I’d answer much like you’d expect; cloud, mobile, social and big data. In fact I was on a panel at the CRM Evolution conference a couple of weeks ago discussing exactly this topic. If I dug a little deeper, which I [...]
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]
Social Business SaaS Applications
A couple of years ago while analyzing the ways SaaS business applications could evolve we started thinking about the social web’s impact on business processes. At the time, Facebook’s success was accelerating while Twitter and Zynga were emerging. We know that consumer-oriented companies want to engage their customers and prospects in the places they frequent, [...]
Back to the Future: Are We in Another Tech Bubble?
I’ve read several blogs and articles over the last few weeks debating the current tech environment and comparing (or arguing why not to compare) today to 1999. I guess it’s not surprise that there’s concern over this topic though, considering the soaring valuations that some of the current crop of social start ups has garnered [...]
eXelate’s DMP
A few days ago eXelate (www.exelate.com), one of my portfolio companies, announced the latest release of its Data Management Platform (DMP). A DMP is software that centralizes the management of online audience data. It enables marketers to manage pixels, control data access and latency, package and segment data, gain insight into audience activity through the [...]
Social Commerce and Our Investment in 8thbridge
Today we are announcing our investment in 8thbridge (www.8thbridge.com), a company that provides social commerce solutions to mid- and upper-enterprise customers. Following our successful investment in Extole (www.extole.com), a company that provides social marketing solutions to the same market segment, we had been looking for an investment in social commerce to round out or portfolio. [...]
IBM Introduces "Smarter Commerce"
Today IBM announced a new initiative called "Smarter Commerce" that ties together $2.5 Billion in acquisitions, organic software assets and a new Global Services practice of over 1000 consultants to capitalize on what IDC is calling commerce 2.0. A few…
Bing’s Cheating, Scoble’s an Attention Whore, Escape the Internet Soap Opera
Geez, must be a slow news week or something. First we got the whole Scoble/Quora soap opera. To make that long story mercifully shorter, Scoble went from thinking Quora was biggest blogging innovation in 10 years to “Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service” to being given a good intervention to finally [...]
