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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Startup Lessons | Tagged Leadership, Metrics, SaaS, startups, strategy, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
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
By Dave Kellogg on February 6, 2019
Thanks to everyone who attended my session yesterday at the amazing — and huge — SaaStr Annual 2019 conference in San Jose. In this post, I’ll share the slides from my presentation, Five Questions SaaS CEOs Wrestle With (and some thoughts on how to answer them). The folks at SaaStr recorded the session, so at […]
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By Dave Kellogg on January 29, 2019
I’m super excited for the upcoming SaaStr Annual 2019 conference in San Jose from February 5th through the 7th at the San Jose Convention Center. I hope to see you there — particularly for my session from 10:00 to 10:30 on Tuesday, February 5th. Last year they ended up repeating my session but that won’t be […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 22, 2019
Globalization 4.0 Attempts To Address Populist Revolt Global leaders gathered in the icy cold confines of Davos Switzerland for the 2019 edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF). This 49th annual gathering’s theme focuses on Globalization 4.0 in the fourth industrial revolution. Though most have not encountered the third industrial revolution, let alone the fourth, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 19, 2019
Retail Innovation Continues To Improve As Budgets And Margin Grow Over 40,000 attendees gathered at Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City for the annual big show (see Figure 1.) The show kicked off with a keynote from BJ’s Wholesale Club Chairman, President, and CEO Chris Baldwin. Chris conveyed the impact of retail on […]
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By Dave Kellogg on January 17, 2019
Most employees tolerate their managers more than love them. According to a year-old survey in Forbes: Only about 50% of employees say the boss values their opinion. Only 35% of employees feel inspired by their boss. Some 25% say they can do a better job than their boss does. Almost 20% say that their boss […]
Posted in Startup Lessons | Tagged boss issues, conflict, conflict aversion, employee relations, Leadership, Management, manager complaints, startups, Uncategorized
