By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2020
By The Constellation Research Team The 2020 Awards Demonstrate The Power Of Humanity Amidst A Global Pandemic And Mass Digitization What started out as an amazing beginning to a new decade ended with one of the worst economies and global health crises in history. Cultural, technological, and business model changes that would have taken a […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 21, 2020
Bottom Line: Cybersecurity CEOs’ lessons learned from navigating the pandemic provide a valuable framework for leading and growing a business through anxious, uncertain times. How each cybersecurity CEO responds to the challenges of keeping employees safe, customers secure, and product release cycles on schedule while still achieving customer success – all virtually – provide valuable […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 15, 2020
Software companies continue to deliver the highest growth rates for the 25th straight year, representing 71% of the entire list, the highest-ever percentage in the history of the rankings. 353 of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America are in the software industry according to Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500, the most ever in the […]
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By Thomas Otter on December 14, 2020
Who’s your pick for 2021? pic.twitter.com/j8iHnzPjyR — Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) December 12, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The brilliance of @EthicsInBricks and @econinbricks reminds me that the software industry should give the Lego metaphor a rest, we can’t compete. I won’t be talking here about how APIs are like the dimples on the lego bricks. I have […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2020
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]
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By Dave Kellogg on December 3, 2020
Decades ago I had the pleasure of watching a branding video, created by a San Francisco ad agency, narrated by an advertising executive with a familiar voice who’d narrated scores of commercials [1]. It was, I believe, entitled Staying in Character and while I’ve searched the internet for it many times over the years — […]
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By Jason M. Lemkin on December 2, 2020
So this 5 Interesting Learnings post is a bit bittersweet. We’ve recently checked in with a bunch of our Cloud and SaaS favorites as they cross $1B in ARR: 5 Interesting Learnings from Zendesk. As It Crosses $1B in ARR 5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot as It Approaches $1 Billion in ARR 5 Interesting Learnings […]
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By Dave Kellogg on December 2, 2020
Back in the day I was taught that marketers do three things, memorized via the acronym STP: segment, target, position. Divide the audience into different segments. For example, dividing consumers by demographics or dividing businesses by size or industry. Select the segments that the company wishes to target for its marketing. For example, choosing small […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons | Tagged advertising, demandgen, events, leadgen, marketing, positioning, pr, SaaS, segmentation, startups, STP, targeting
By Thomas Otter on December 2, 2020
“Be cautious about generalizing, especially if it leads you to the conclusion that other people are idiots.” – Hans Rosling pic.twitter.com/4uGCLqk8vv — Economics in Bricks (@econinbricks) December 25, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Thanks to @econinbrinks. An excellent source of wisdom. When I was at Gartner I helped enterprises grapple with enterprise vendor contracts. I know several specialist […]
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By Louis Columbus on November 27, 2020
Cybersecurity professionals with cloud security skills can gain a $15,025 salary premium by capitalizing on strong market demand for their skills in 2021. DevOps and Application Development Security professionals can expect to earn a $12,266 salary premium based on their unique, in-demand skills. 413,687 job postings for Health Information Security professionals were posted between October […]
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