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IT survival in a digital world

IT survival in a digital world

By Michael Krigsman on April 29, 2015

Traditional IT skills center on technology and infrastructure like servers, databases, and telecom systems. Although important, these skills are rapidly becoming insufficient to meet the expectations of digital business. To be clear, traditional IT and the CIO are not going away anytime soon. Businesses and the government run on datacenters and applications that require traditional […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged aaron levie, Chief technology officer, cloud computing, CXO, innovation, Intelligence quotient, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Aaron Levie of Box:  “If We Just Sold to Silos-in-the-Enterprise, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business”

Aaron Levie of Box: “If We Just Sold to Silos-in-the-Enterprise, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business”

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 27, 2015

Missed the 2015 SaaStr Annual?  We’ve got your back.  We’ll do a series where we publish both the videos and full transcripts of all the sessions.  First up is Aaron Levie of Box, where we had a wide-ranging, 45 minute deep dive on how Box scaled from $0 to $250m in ARR. As you’re reading […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged @levie, #BoxHQ, aaron levie, box, boxdev, case studies, Drew Houston, dropbox, larry ellison, linkedin, SaaStr, salesforce.com, startups, techcrunch, video

Help Us Pick 1 or 2 of the SaaStr Annual ’16 Speakers!

Help Us Pick 1 or 2 of the SaaStr Annual ’16 Speakers!

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 3, 2015

We’ll start to roll out the SaaStr Annual ’16 speakers in the coming weeks.  It will be tough to top the ’15 speakers — from Aaron Levie to Bob Tinker, from Stewart Butterfield to David Sacks, from David Ulevitch to Parker Conrad, etc. etc. But we will find a way! We’ll also have three full […]

Posted in Business | Tagged aaron levie, Danielle Morrill, David O. Sacks, David Ulevitch, Lew Cirne, mark suster, Phil Fernandez, SaaStr, SaaStr Annual, software as a service, Upfront Ventures | 1 Response

The Rise of the Cloud Stack

The Rise of the Cloud Stack

By Aaron Levie on June 27, 2013

Something changed this week in the enterprise software world. In an industry known for ruthless competition, a number of players – Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and NetSuite – introduced partnerships that portend a very different future. In very un-Larry Ellison-like fashion, something akin to harmony was proposed, “when customers choose cloud applications, they expect rapid low-cost […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Your POV | Tagged aaron levie, api, best of breed, box, cloud stack, erp, integration, larry ellison, Larry's Kids, microsoft, netsuite, Oracle, peoplesoft, salesforce.com, workday | 1 Response

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes on February 15, 2013

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While perhaps not a particularly sound […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged aaron levie, Benevolent Dictator For Life, dropbox, google, Guido van Rossum, heroku, python, Ruby, Sam Schillace

Enterprise software wars: 5 points of advice for CIOs

Enterprise software wars: 5 points of advice for CIOs

By Michael Krigsman on January 28, 2013

Enterprise software, long a complex domain only of interest to specialists, has become the darling of venture capital investors and start-ups. This post presents context and concludes with advice for CIOs on navigating the changing enterprise software landscape. Enterprise software eats the world (photo credit: Michael Krigsman) To get a sense of growing interest in […]

Posted in Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged aaron levie, cloud computing, Enterprise, enterprise software, Enterprise Startups, software as a service, startups, Vinnie Mirchandani, wall street journal | 1 Response

Reflections on BoxWorks

Reflections on BoxWorks

By Ben Kepes on November 26, 2012

Having had a little while to reflect on a month that saw me attend both DreamForce and BoxWorks, I wanted to get down some thoughts on what is happening with Box, one of Silicon Valley’s current darlings. This is all the more relevant given the slightly uncomfortable position that Box found itself in after DreamWorks […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged #df12, aaron levie, boxworks, chatterbox, dreamforce, gooddata, netsuite, salesforce, salesforce.com, Sam Schillace, SAP AG

Dreamforce, BoxWorks, Arse-Kissing, and Behavioral vs. Attitudinal Loyalty

Dreamforce, BoxWorks, Arse-Kissing, and Behavioral vs. Attitudinal Loyalty

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 10, 2012

Not tooo long ago, I was meeting with one of EchoSign’s largest customers.  As I was coming, someone else was leaving – Marc Benioff. He’d come (flying private I assume, and possibly straight from Hawaii) to … kiss the customer’s arse, as near as I could tell.  The customer already had thousands and thousands of […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, aaron levie, Apple, boxworks, dreamforce, echosign, loyalty, salesforce.com, Service cloud, united airlines

Box Counters the Threat of ChatterBox–The Switzerland of Content Collaboration

Box Counters the Threat of ChatterBox–The Switzerland of Content Collaboration

By Ben Kepes on October 9, 2012

When Salesforce announced their ChatterBox content collaboration solutions a couple of weeks ago, the one vendor most impacted by the news was Box – partly because they’d previously been an important partner of Salesforce, but also because the announcement cut off some of Box’s oxygen, especially inside companies who are

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged aaron levie, boxworks, chatterbox, Cornerstone OnDemand, docusign, netsuite, salesforce, salesforce.com, sap | 1 Response

BoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications

BoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications

By Ben Kepes on October 3, 2012

Next week sees me in San Francisco for the annual Box user conference, it’s an interesting time for the company, only a couple of weeks ago Salesforce stole some of their thunder by announcing a file sync and collaboration tool. BoxWorks is an opportunity for the company to fight back, and for CEO Aaron Levie […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged aaron levie, boxworks, dropbox, microsoft, Microsoft Sharepoint, salesforce.com, tibco | 3 Responses

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

By Ben Kepes on September 18, 2012

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told me of its initial existence said that it was a direct

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, aaron levie, Asia, Benioff, dreamforce, dropbox, salesforce, salesforce.com, startups, TechCrunch Disrupt, Zero–sum game | 2 Responses

Huddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round

Huddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round

By Ben Kepes on May 24, 2012

Exciting news this morning from Cloud content management and collaboration company Huddle. The UK founded but now US/UK headquartered company is this morning announcing a Series C funding round to the tune of $24M. The round takes Huddle’s funding to $40 million in the five or so years since it was launched. Huddle is an […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged aaron levie, Alastair Mitchell, Andy McLoughlin, dropbox, Huddle, Kia Motors, silicon valley, UK Government

On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors

On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors

By Ben Kepes on March 5, 2012

While in the US a week or two ago I spent some time talking with vendors about the security of Cloud data, in particular the impact of the DCMA and Patriot Act on non US customers of vendors. As part of my research I spent some time talking with Lindsay

Posted in Security, Trends & Concepts | Tagged aaron levie, box, dmca, google, Megaupload, salesforce.com, United States, USA PATRIOT Act | 1 Response

What Honeycomb and Android Tablets Mean for Businesses

What Honeycomb and Android Tablets Mean for Businesses

By Aaron Levie on February 1, 2011

Google is set to announce their first tablet-oriented Android operating system, codenamed Honeycomb. At Box, we’ve been waiting for this moment since we started seeing significant traction with our apps for both the iPad and Android phones, with nearly 400,000 downloads to date. With the introduction of Honeycomb, we’ll begin working immediately on a tablet-centric version of our Box Android app.
How did we get to this point?

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Mobile, Your POV | Tagged aaron levie, android, Android tablets, Apple, Box for Android, Box for iPad, box.net, collaboration, enterprise software, Galaxy tablets, google, Honeycomb, ipad, iphone, Samsung, startups

T-Shirt Friday #27 – box.net #2

T-Shirt Friday #27 – box.net #2

By Ben Kepes on January 22, 2010

Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged aaron levie, box.net, t shirt friday

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