At Even Just $1m ARR — You Need to Stop Doing Low ROI Things
In SaaS, I think one of the biggest traps you can get yourself into as a founder is doing Low ROI things for one minute longer than you have to. Of course, this is true in all start-ups. But quickly in SaaS it becomes worse. Why? Because they are more functional areas to handle, earlier. […]
The Box S-1, Delayed IPO, and the Genius of Tien Tzuo
While I did my own post on the Box S-1, I also noticed that fellow CEO blogger, Tien Tzuo of Zuora, had done a post of his own with the catchy title These Numbers Show That Box CEO Aaron Levie is a Genius. I saw the post, clipped it to Evernote, and I decided to read […]
Coursera, edX Offer Free Online Courses As Cloud Computing Learning Options Proliferate
Stanford Hoover Tower (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The value and variety of online cloud computing programs being offered by leading colleges and universities is proliferating. Focusing on the learning needs of IT professionals who need to apply cloud technologies to solve complex business problems, many of these programs and courses sell out before classes begin. This […]
The Best Cloud Computing Companies and CEOs to Work For in 2013
Hiring great people and creating a culture of achievement that is fun, focused and able to get challenging tasks done is not an easy task. Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes a unique leader that consistently earns trust and respect. Those are the qualities I think of whenever I’m asked to […]
Enterprise software wars: 5 points of advice for CIOs
Enterprise software, long a complex domain only of interest to specialists, has become the darling of venture capital investors and start-ups. This post presents context and concludes with advice for CIOs on navigating the changing enterprise software landscape. Enterprise software eats the world (photo credit: Michael Krigsman) To get a sense of growing interest in […]
The cool kids grow up: Box.com and the SharePoint Shift
Levie is still funny and outrageous, and Box is still young and hip, but the company’s focus is clearly on making sure that growth and new markets are characterized by an astute reading of market forces, and not just on being cool and hip.
Event Report: Preview 2 – The Exclusive Market Maker 1:1 Keynote Interviews At Constellation’s Connected Enterprise 2012 (#CCE2012)
Think TED Meets Enterprise For The C-Suite – Constellation’s Connected Enterprise. Constellation’s flagship event, Connected Enterprise 2012, starts November 9th to 11th, 2012. This intimate innovation summit in Dana Point, CA (www.stregismb.com) is designed for senior business leaders who are attempting or successfully using disruptive technologies such as social business, cloud computing, mobile enterprise, big […]
Will Yammer improve SharePoint?
It’s difficult to see how Yammer will improve SharePoint, or what value it will add for customers. It’s just another tool in an increasingly chaotic Microsoft toolbox.
TechCrunch trivializes SAP’s $3.4B billion cloud acquisition
Photo credit: Cloud watching by Michael Krigsman TechCrunch trumpeted an odd lack of interest in SAP’s acquisition of human capital management vendor, SuccessFactors, for $3.4 billion. The popular technology startup blog offered these choice comments: In what is perhaps the most boring piece of tech news to come out of this week, German software giant […]
Boxing with the Cloud
Providing cloud-based storage seems so commodity-like, and so hard to defend as a unique differentiator, that it would seem that Box.net, despite the dynamic vigor of the company and its CEO, Aaron Levie, couldn’t really make a go of it in the market. After all, some very very big companies, like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, […]
