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Should Startups Care About Profitability?
There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re […]
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Augmented reality: Field service proof points in the enterprise
A demonstration at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience conference shows why augmented reality is here to stay in the enterprise. Watch AR help repair a slot machine in Las Vegas.
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The Two Things to Do. When You Don’t Know What to Do.
There may come a time, or two, in your company when you just don’t know what to do. You aren’t growing fast enough. or The competition seems to be getting the best of you. or You can’t raise financing. or You just lost an important deal. Or maybe more than one. or That great new […]
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Jyoti Bansal and The AppDynamics Story: From Idea to $3.7B (Video + Transcript)
Jyoti Bansal, Founder & Chairman of AppDynamics joined Jason Lemkin on stage at SaaStr Annual 2017 to give us the inside scoop on his 11th-hour decision to sell to Cisco rather than going public — and the path he took to get IPO-ready. Jason opened the ‘17 Annual with an acknowledgment of the global nature […]
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One Tough (But Rewarding) Job: Being the First Sales Rep at a SaaS Startup
Ah, the first sales rep. Being the first salesperson into a start-up in a rewarding — but very tough job: Your Founder Boss likely will never have managed a salesperson before. She likely won’t know what you are supposed to do 40+ hours a week. Your Founder Boss may have strong views on what you […]
Digital survival: The transformation imperative
Digital transformation must extend beyond marketing to every part of your company. A world expert explains why and shares his advice on what to do.
Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising
When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time. You have cash in the bank, a monthly burn rate and a “cash out” date that few in the company truly comprehend. I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation […]
CIO Report: Cloud first in financial services
The Chief Information Officer of financial services firm, Antares Capital, with $20 billion under management explains why she went all-in on the cloud.
How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding
Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C. I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the […]
McKinsey: AI, jobs, and workforce automation
Machine intelligence will have a profound impact on business and jobs. Learn how artificial intelligence and machine learning will affect your company and what you can do about it.
How Glenn Beck Won the Audience Over at the Upfront Summit
If you asked me a year ago when we were hosting the 2016 Upfront Summit the odds of Glenn Beck speaking at the next Summit I would have emphatically said ZERO. The first sign that there might be more to Glenn Beck than the impressions I had had from occasionally watching a clip from […]
Last Minute Tips & Tricks for The SaaStr Annual!
It’s almost here. The 2017 SaaStr Annual. Just a few extra last minute tips: It Will Be Packed. We’ll have ~10,000 nominal attendees which realistically means about 5,000 on-site at any given time at the Bill Graham (not everyone will be there at all times, etc). The Bill Graham is a super fun venue, the […]
Artificial Intelligence: Legal, ethical, and policy issues
AI is surrounded by marketing hype, jargon, inflated expectations, and fear. Two experts offer realistic and thoughtful ideas about AI in our society and economy.
Why The Law of Large Numbers is Just an Excuse
Everyone has tough quarters, and usually, at least one tough year (more on that here). As we approach $10m, and then again as we approach $20m, and then again as we approach $X0m … we often blame a factor that I believe rarely is really real — The Law of Large Numbers. The Law of […]
Business
- The Top 10 Worst Pieces of SaaS Advice
- Digital experience and white glove customer service at Brooks Brothers
- A New Chapter In My Life; Google
- FinTech and Blockchain: Are banks dead?
- CIO view: Inside the World Health Organization
- CIO leadership: Two female role models
- 10 SaaS New Year Resolutions For You. A Pick List.
- Let Me Point out to you How Ridiculous the Trump Tech Meeting Was
- Why You Can’t Search for a Job From a Remote Location
- Secrets of a successful enterprise software startup founder
Technology
- Oracle in the cloud: The analyst conversation
- Why Computer Vision Tracking the Flow of People Will be a Huge Market
- Why Computer Vision Has Become a Major Investment Theme for Me
- #CXOTALK: Technology innovation advice from Accenture’s CTO
- #CXOTALK: Design for innovation, digital transformation, and organizational change
- Half Lives. Social Media. And Snapchat Stories.
- Introducing Snapstorms.com. Why, oh, why Snapchat?
- #CXOTALK: Open data and APIs at The New York Times
- Why on Earth Would Anybody Post Business Videos on Snapchat?
- Data science at Dun & Bradstreet
