Analysts and Marc’s Press conference
They call it a Q&A session but when Marc Benioff takes questions he draws the kind of crowd that you often see politicians performing in front of. The group has gotten too big for me to know everyone or even most people — especially since it includes press, financial analysts and industry analysts. I have […]
Eric Schmidt and Marc Benioff
Necessity is the mother of invention and last year when Bill Clinton was late for the closing keynote, Marc may have discovered an ideal medium for closing out Dreamforce. This year he perfected it. I don’t know if Clinton was scheduled to give a conventional speech last year or a sit down interview I only […]
Workday during Hurricane Dreamforce
As kids in the Northeast found in the wake of Irene, there are Snow days even in the summer. Hurricane Dreamforce blew into San Francisco (what else can you call an event with an attendance of 45,000?) this week and many of us bloggers and analysts found ourselves in the middle of a Workday. A […]
Analyzing the Success of Our Portfolio Companies
Most fundraising presentation we see include two pieces of information: the company’s position relative to its competition, hopefully through rankings created by industry analyst groups, e.g., Gartner’s Magic Quadrant or Forrester’s Wave, and the list of awards and recognitions the company has received, e.g., the Inc. 500 award. During an initial presentation these two pieces […]
The promise and challenges of Benioff’s social enterprise vision
Summary: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff continued his now-epic stream of social business thought leadership at this week’s Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco. The messaging was certainly world class and the slew of announcements this week will address many of the shortcomings or feature gaps in its social software product line. But is a company whose roots are […]
