By Jason M. Lemkin on June 18, 2018
Welcome to Episode 179! Dave Kellogg is the CEO @ Host Analytics, the leader in cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM). Previously, Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud at Salesforce and CEO at unstructured big data provider MarkLogic. Before that, Dave was CMO at Business Objects for nearly a decade as the company grew from $30M […]
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By Jason M. Lemkin on June 8, 2018
The other day, for the first time ever, I put together a little bit of analysis on the 24 SaaS companies I’ve invested in since late 2013. 20 have crossed $1m ARR now, a bunch have crossed $10m ARR since, and a handful $50m ARR. I wanted to go back in time and look at […]
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By Jason M. Lemkin on June 7, 2018
Since I published my Catfished by a Candidate blog post a couple of weeks ago, our website traffic has increased by 250% and it has become the number one most viewed post on our site from the last 12 months. Plus, it has a 700 comment thread on Hacker News and a podcast on Hacker […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 22, 2018
Commerce Finally Comes To Adobe On May 21st, 2018, Adobe announced a $1.68 billion acquisition to acquire Magento for commerce capabilities and the developer ecosystem. When the transaction closes, the Campbell, Ca based company will be part of the Adobe Digital Experience team with Magento’s CEO Mark Lavelle reporting to Adobe’s executive vice president and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 7, 2018
Boardroom Failures Reflect Years Of Focus On EBIDTA and Return On Capital Faced with massive pressure to embark on their digital journey, boards and CEOs have sought case studies and examples of success to avail without realizing that each journey remains unique. While there are many proof of concepts in play, much of the innovation […]
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By Dave Kellogg on April 4, 2018
Last week I sat down with interviewers Doug Henschen, Vala Afshar, and a bit of Ray Wang (live from a 777 taxiing en route to Tokyo) to participate in Episode 100 of DisrupTV along with fellow guests DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth and big data / science recruiter Virginia Backaitis. We covered a full gamut of topics, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 5, 2018
Amazon AR View Targets Android Amazon has added its AR View augmented reality (AR) offering to Android devices on Google’s ARCore. Developers can create AR experiences in applications, games, and other apps. The feature runs from Amazon’s app icon. The offering was launched on Apple iOS in November for customers using ARKit. Amazon AR […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 27, 2018
All Eyes On Mobile World Congress and 5G The annual Mobile World Congress #MWC18 kicked off Monday in Barcelona with the 5G standard front and center in all discussions. With the main 5G architectural standards agreed upon by 3GPP in December 2017, the industry gains a service based architecture, common core network, network slicing, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 12, 2018
State of Arizona Senate Passes Bill To Accept Tax Payments With Blockchain Technologies On February 8th, 2018, the Arizona Senate passed a bill allowing payment of taxes by cryptocurrencies. With a Senate Finance Committee vote of 4-3 on January 24th, and a 16-13 vote in favor by the senate on February 8th, Arizona Senate […]
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By Dave Kellogg on January 29, 2018
In an effort to promote my upcoming presentation at SaaStr 2018, which is currently on the agenda for Wednesday, February 7th at 9:00 AM in Studio C, I thought I’d do a quick post sharing what I’ll be covering in the presentation, officially titled, “The Best of Kellblog: 10 Non-Obvious Things About Scaling SaaS.” Before […]
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