When Big Companies Can Kill You. And When They Can’t.
I remember every day, every moment, of both my start-ups with hyper-lucidity. But a few moments especially stand out. Those times when BigCo calls you up to their fancy office, and tells you they are going to enter your space and kill you. It happened to me twice at EchoSign. I’m not going to share [...]
We Got Hacked, Now What?
Hopefully you really have a good answer for this. Getting hacked is no longer a distant probability; it’s a harsh reality. The most recent incident was Evernote losing customer information including email addresses and passwords to a hacker. I’m an Evernote customer and I watched the drama unfold from the perspective of an end user. [...]
When You Hire Your First Sales Rep — Just Make Sure You Hire Two
The time is probably going to come when you have to build a sales team in SaaS. It may be Day 1 if you have plenty of capital and are selling to large enterprises. It may be X months down the road, once you close a few deals of large enough size ($x,000 ACV) to [...]
Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive; maybe they’re not apples after all?
Cloud storage product Dropbox is one of those tools that users tend to rave about. It’s deceptively simple. It’s pretty reliable. The value proposition is immediately apparent. It has paid tiers of usage that bring additional storage but (like other freemium beacons such as Evernote) the free offering is rich enough to be compelling, engaging, [...]
The Only Kind of Product That Can Pull Off Freemium
The Wall Street Journal finally picks up on the freemium trend (it’s only been 2-3 years, right?) The problem is, anyone reading the article is probably under the impression that what succeeds and what doesn’t i…
Using the Cloud for personal productivity with Evernote
I’ve just made a significant switch in one of the main tools I use for my own personal productivity which highlights a key trend for the industry and all of us – the personal cloud. Whether it is for work or our personal lives we use desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, media players and tablets [...]
My Quick Take on Quicktate (Convenient Transcription Has Finally Arrived)
It is rare that I get so excited about a new service I feel compelled to grab a pen mic smartphone and blog about it. But today it just happened: the service I’m going to talk about is Quicktate. For background, let me just come clear and admit that I’m a really lousy typist and [...]
Evernote Celebrates Birthday by Joining the Billion Dollar Club (Really?)
Evernote has recently celebrated their third birthday. I also recently had my 21st birthday – it feels good to be able to legally grab a drink finally. (Hey, if Evernote can lie about their age, so can I…). Joke apart, I have no idea why a company would pretend to be half as young as [...]
Well, Well, SAP is now on Google Apps MarketPlace. Ok, Just StreamWork. But Still:-)
Straight from the Who-woulda-thunk-it department: time to rethink the Enterprise Software is Not Sexy meme. Or at least parts of it. We’ve previously introduced SAP’s StreamWork collaboration platform – it is now available on the Google Apps Marketplace. That’s not exactly the old-fashioned Enterprise Approach to market. And if you look at SAP’s StreamWork Partner [...]
Evernote Offers An Option To Import Google Notebook
Image by /Sizemore/ via Flickr We recently wrote about Zoho offering an option to import data from Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook. Even though it was a bit crude, it got the work done and gave peace of mind to many users of Google Notebook. Today, Evernote announced the availability of an option to import [...]
Google Notebook – Help Is On The Way
Image via CrunchBase Google shocked the world by stopping the development of Google Notebook. Both Zoho and Evernote promised to offer a way to import Google Notebook to their products. Zoho delivered on their promise with an option to import from your Google Notebook. It is not a neat way but it gets the work [...]
