By Louis Columbus on January 12, 2021
According to BDS Analytics, the Covid-19 pandemic drove retail sales up 35% above industry forecasts, accelerated by cannabis businesses being declared “essential” for medical purposes in virtually every U.S. legal market. Fueled by strong consumer demand, annual legal (medical and adult-use) sales are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%, […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI in Cannabis production, AI-based surveillance monitoring systems USDA, BDS Analytics, Cannabis Commercial farming, Machine Learning in Cannabis production, Marijuana Cultivators of Oregon, Marijuana production, New Frontier Data, The Rand Corporation, Twenty 20 Solutions
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 […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged absolute software, Centrify, Evernym, Founder Shield, Gramener: Insights as Data Stories, Hexnode, Kount, Louis Columbus' blog, MobileIron, Osborne Global Security, Prometeo, Qohash, RapidSpace
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 — […]
Posted in Business, Startup Lessons | Tagged advertising, branding, character, Integrity, marketing, staying in character
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 […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons | Tagged Blog Posts, scale
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 Louis Columbus on November 3, 2020
Bottom Line: Flint Brenton’s vision for the future of Centrify and cybersecurity, in general, prioritizes the need for privileged access management to become core to the multi-cloud architectures and DevOps environments he sees pervading customers’ enterprises today. Every new cybersecurity company CEO is writing their vision of the future by their decisions and the priorities […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Centrify CEO Flint Brenton, Cybersecurity in a COVID-19 World, Cybersecurity strategy, DevOps, Louis Columbus' blog, microservices, Privileged Access Management
By Dave Kellogg on May 19, 2020
One of the hardest things about running startups is you’re never sure who to listen to. Your board members own big stakes in the company, but that doesn’t automatically align them with you. Your late-stage investors want low multiples on big numbers. Your early-stage investors want big multiples on small numbers. And they have their […]
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By Dave Kellogg on May 18, 2020
Many moons ago when I was young product marketing manager, I heard a new VP of Marketing speak at a marketing all-hands meeting. He spoke with a kiwi accent and his name was Chris Greendale. What he said were six words that changed my career: Marketing exists to make sales easier While this has clearly […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 22, 2020
Bottom Line: Existing approaches to securing IT infrastructure are proving unreliable as social engineering and breach attempts succeed in misdirecting human responses to cyber threats, accentuating the need for machines to protect themselves. Any nations’ digital infrastructure and the businesses it supports are its most vital technology resources, as the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear. Cybercriminal […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, COVID-19 cyberattacks, Cyberattacks, cybersecurity, Louis Columbus' blog, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), NIST Zero Trust Special Publication 800-207, United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Zero Trust Security