By Jason M. Lemkin on October 24, 2019
In 2019, you clearly can build a successful SaaS and Cloud company outside the Bay Area. And it is just sooo expensive here in the Bay Area. Like crazy expensive. And aren’t we all moving to distributed teams? Still, networks matter. And finding veterans that have done it before really helps, especially as you scale. […]
Posted in Startup Lessons | Tagged Blog Posts, growth, Leadership
By Dave Kellogg on October 21, 2019
Over the years I’ve noticed how different CEOs take different degrees of ownership and accountability when it comes to the board of directors. For example, once, after a long debate where the board unanimously approved a budget contingent on reducing proposed R&D spending from $12M to $10M, I overhead the founder/CEO telling the head of […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Startup Lessons | Tagged Board, CEO, Leadership, Management, private equity, Silicon Valley, startups, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
By Jason M. Lemkin on July 17, 2019
Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Anish Shivdasani, CEO @ Giraffe FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW How’s it guys? You guys good? How’s everyone feeling? Yeah, great. Awesome, man. It’s […]
Posted in Startup Lessons | Tagged Africa, Anish shivdasani, Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, giraffe, Leadership, marketing, Other, SaaStr, SaaStr Annual, saastr events, scale, videos
By R "Ray" Wang on May 10, 2019
PSA, Subscription Billing Power Customer Centric ERP Almost 600 customers, partners, and influencers joined the FinancialForce team in Las Vegas. May 7th to 9th, to experience the latest in professional services automation (PSA) and customer-centric ERP. CEO and President, Tod Nielsen, kicked off its user conference at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 4, 2019
Organizations Move Beyond The Post-Digital Era I am consciously scaring you into existence. The disruption ahead is not a fantasy. When I founded Constellation Research and then wrote the best-selling book, Disrupting Digital Business, we stood at the dawn of a major shift in business models and disruptive technologies that powered what we coined digital […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2019, Alliances, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, best practices, Big Ideas, Business Transformation, C-Suite, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Creative Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CRM, data-driven digital networks, debt crisis, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, Digital Divide, Digital Duopolies, digital ecosystem networks, Digital Ecosystems, digital enterprise platforms, digital feedback loops, digital monetization, digital monopolies, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, disrputing digital, disrupting digital, Disrupting Digital Business, disruptive, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, extreme EBITDA, globalization 4.0, growth, innovation, jump start growth, Leadership, partner ecosystems, partners, partnerships, post-digital era, R "Ray" Wang;, Retail, rwang0, short-termism, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, trends
By David Terrar on April 16, 2019
I’ve spent 2 days at Cloud Expo Europe, the premier London based event covering cloud platforms, hybrid and multicloud approaches, cybersecurity, AI, blockchain and more, as well as well as all of the ingredients of the data centres that support those technologies. A wide set of tech topics, but within them everyone’s talking digital transformation […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #Techerati, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, digital transformation strategy, events, Leadership, storytelling
By Dave Kellogg on April 15, 2019
When it comes to evaluating a startup’s performance, I think there are two key, orthogonal questions that need to be examined: Is the company delivering growth? Is management in control of your business? Growth is the primary driver of value creation in a software startup. I’m not going to quantify what is good vs. bad […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Startup Lessons | Tagged Leadership, Management, moribund, stars, startups, strategy, stuck, unbridled, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
By R "Ray" Wang on March 25, 2019
Services Revenue Mix Could Reach 20% By 2020 Photo: @rwang0 On March 25, 2019, Apple held its special event on services at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, CA to launch and/or revamp 4 key services including: Apple News+. New service adds 300 magazines, the Wall Street Journal and more publications to 875 million iPhone […]
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By Dave Kellogg on March 12, 2019
I’ve been making a few presentations of late, so I thought I’d share the slides to this deck which I presented earlier this week to the All Hands meeting of a high-growth SaaS company as part of their external speaker series. This one’s kind of a romp — it starts with some background on Kellblog […]
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By Dave Kellogg on February 18, 2019
I am big believer in strong corporate cultures. Culture can be used to set powerful norms. Culture can bind people in an organization to a common set of values bigger than their quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs). Culture helps attracts the right people to your organization – and can drive out the wrong ones […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged core-values, Culture, Leadership, Management, norms, Uncategorized
