And nearby somebody finally gets it – new interaction programming models
I saw a tweet this morning that caught my eye. .Check out https://t.co/Q9TDQMD74P and https://t.co/6Sn0ssBSWq #google #beacons #nearby #devs #tech — Gen Ashley (@coderinheels) September 9, 2016 Having written about Conversational IoT earlier this week I thought it was worth a quick follow up. I said then that The nature of the current dominant user […]
Aligned to Achieve: A B2B Marketing Classic
Tracy Eiler and Andrea Austin’s Aligned to Achieve came out yesterday and it’s a great book on an important and all too often overlooked topic: how to align sales and marketing. I’m adding it to my modern SaaS executive must-read book list, which is now: Aligned to Achieve by Tracy Eiler and Andrea Austin Customer Success […]
If You Don’t Ask The Right Qs, You Get The Answers You Deserve!
To get maximum value from attending #HRTechConf and/or #HRTechWorld, prepare your questions carefully and gather different points of view on possible answers. Be an investigative journalist in order to get useful answers to your important questions. Introduction It’s conference season, and we’d better get our act together if we’re not going to be “Trumped” during our time spent at […]
Conversational IoT–’SUP?
Conversational IoT emerged strongly as a theme at our Thingmonk conference over the last couple of years – which is on again next week. Nick O’Leary gave a stellar talk on the subject in 2014, inspired by the work of Tom Coates. A lot of experimentation in the space happened on Twitter with tweeting objects […]
7 Things We’ve Learned in Hybrid Revenue SaaS
By Tony Knopp, CEO & Co-Founder of InviteManager, which makes planning you client entertainment easy. Building an enterprise SaaS is a challenging proposition. Doing so with a services business attached can be even more interesting. Here are seven things we’ve learned about building, raising money for, and growing an enterprise SaaS with a hybrid services […]
Everybody Lies 2016: SaaS Revenues in the Inc. 5000
Four years ago, we formally kicked off the SaaStr blog with our very first blog post, “Everybody Lies”. It took a deep dive on the Inc 5000 list, which requires companies to provide and share GAAP revenues to win the award. In SaaS, everybody lies a little. Bookings instead of MRR. ARR instead of GAAP […]
Spring Won Platform: the Big Switch just happened
Avoid Mayhem. Do programming. Since 2002 RedMonk has argued for the primacy of developers and practitioners in driving business advantage. We see ourselves as developer advocates as much as industry analysts. Our thesis concerns The New Kingmakers. Ten years ago we were outliers – not exactly a lone voice but definitely a rare one. Even […]
developers are the new bankmakers – @getmondo
Last week we went to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit London. While we were there AWS set up a meeting with Mondo: “finally, a bank as smart as your phone”. Founder Tom Blomfield had given a short talk in the keynote – in which he said: “I am going to talk about building a bank […]
Why Some SaaS Companies Stall Out at $20m ARR
Part of my job when I invest in a start-up is to get folks excited about the company. It’s not that hard. Because I am genuinely excited. Or I wouldn’t make the investment . And part of the picture I try to paint for the The Next Investor is where they’ll be in 12-18 months. E.g., […]
The serverless economy – why you should care about serverless
Tweet I recently helped out with the inaugural Serverless Conf, and gave the closing remarks. The event was held in a warehouse in Williamsburg, New York. Organiser Ant Stanley of ACloudGuru did a great job of organising his first conference. There are plenty of smarter people than me explaining what “serverless” is – Paul Johnston, […]
