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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

Building the Cult of You

Building the Cult of You

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 14, 2015

You may have noticed LinkedIn recently made its largest acquisition so far, of Lynda.com for $1.5 billion.  If you haven’t heard of Lynda.com, it’s a SaaS / subscription service for training and e-learning.  One thing to note is who its co-founder is:  Lynda Weinman.  The Wall Street Journal called her “the mother of the Internet.” […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged @aneelb, @levie, Benioff, box, Cult of You, larry ellison, Marketing & Partnerships, Oracle Corporation, Safra A. Catz, salesforce, salesforce.com, workday

Your VP Sales Has a Sales Quota.  Your VP Marketing Needs a Lead Quota.  Period.

Your VP Sales Has a Sales Quota. Your VP Marketing Needs a Lead Quota. Period.

By Jason M. Lemkin on March 31, 2015

A ways back, we did an extremely popular post entitled, Hire the Right Type of VP Marketing or You’ll Just End Up With a Bunch of Blue Pens with Your Logo On Them.  The basic idea was to help folks who haven’t hired a VP or Director of Marketing hire the right one for a […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Acceleration, box, Eloqua, hubspot, lead quota, leadgen, marketing, Pardot, sales, software as a service

All These Enterprise IPOs:  Why It’s Just Getting Good.  Why These are The Best of Times for SaaS.

All These Enterprise IPOs: Why It’s Just Getting Good. Why These are The Best of Times for SaaS.

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 19, 2015

Reading the tech press you might get the sense that The Enterprise is something they are sort of forced to write about because it’s having a good run.  We had a great Consumer run, a nice set of Multi-Billion Dollar deals around Social Networking, a WhatsApp/Snapchat fad around mobile messaging, an Alibaba, Instacart, Fab-ulous e-commerce […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged box, Box IPO, dropbox, echosign, Eloqua, Entrepreneurship, hubspot, ipo, MobileIron, saas, salesforce.com, startups, wall street

SaaStr on NBC’s Press:Here on Box, DropBox, WhatsApp — And the Lack of Fear

SaaStr on NBC’s Press:Here on Box, DropBox, WhatsApp — And the Lack of Fear

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 13, 2014

NBC was kind enough to have us back on Press:Here (right after Meet-the-Press) to discuss DropBox’s almost-$1-billion in debt and equity raised this year, Box’s IPO, and beyond that, just what’s Going On in the Enterprise these days. My overall answer:  there’s current a Lack of Fear, notwithstanding the (relatively modest) market correction in ’14. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged #BoxHQ, box, dropbox, Entrepreneurship, ipo, Meet the Press, nbc, saas, startups

Friday Vendor Roundup: Mindjet, Spigit, AtTask, Harmon.ie, Box, & Tomfoolery

Friday Vendor Roundup: Mindjet, Spigit, AtTask, Harmon.ie, Box, & Tomfoolery

By Jacob Morgan on September 20, 2013

Every Friday I’m going to attempt to summarize any relevant news in the future of work/collaboration space. I’ll provide the name of the vendor, a short summary of what the announcement or piece of news is with a link to the original, and finally a short POV. I can’t cover every single thing that comes […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged anchor, attask, box, Friday Vendor Roundup, mindjet, spigit, tomfoolery | 1 Response

Friday Vendor Roundup: Avectra, Moxie Software, Box, Alfresco, and Citrix

Friday Vendor Roundup: Avectra, Moxie Software, Box, Alfresco, and Citrix

By Jacob Morgan on August 23, 2013

Every Friday I’m going to attempt to summarize any relevant news in the future of work/collaboration space. I’ll provide the name of the vendor, a short summary of what the announcement or piece of news is with a link to the original, and finally a short POV. I can’t cover every single thing that comes […]

Posted in Business | Tagged abila, Alfresco, avectra, box, citrix, Friday Vendor Roundup, Moxie Software | 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

Why "Enterprise SaaS" may soon be a misnomer

Why "Enterprise SaaS" may soon be a misnomer

By Chris Yeh on June 13, 2013

One of the most exciting developments to hit the enterprise software world in decades was the rise of SaaS.  Companies like Salesforce.com blazed a trail that built enormous amounts of wealth and improved the lives of end-users. Prior to SaaS, most enterprise software was sold based on perpetual licenses, to CIOs and IT departments, with […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged box, businessmodel, dropbox, hybrid cloud, saas, salesforce.com, software as a service | 1 Response

Box Answers IT Concerns–Deeper Security Option Roll Out

Box Answers IT Concerns–Deeper Security Option Roll Out

By Ben Kepes on February 25, 2013

Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about Dropbox releasing an entire swathe of new security functionality that sees it firmly mark itself as entering the corporate market and responding to the needs of IT. As I said at the time, Dropbox has long signaled an intention to move up the food chain. In […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged #BoxHQ, android, box, box.com, cloud computing, dropbox, gooddata, Mobile World Congress, Samsung KNOX, Star Trek: Enterprise, vmware | 1 Response

Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive; maybe they’re not apples after all?

Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive; maybe they’re not apples after all?

By Paul Miller on November 21, 2012

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, […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, Apple, box, cloud computing, cloud storage, dropbox, evernote, google, microsoft, skydrive, Windows Live SkyDrive | 5 Responses

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

By Ben Kepes on November 13, 2012

In launching FileLocker, InfraScale CEO Ken Shaw is claiming that both DropBox and Box have been “substantially misrepresenting their capabilities when it comes to security and won’t be adopted by enterprise or Government” because of it. Those are pretty strong words…

Posted in Application Software, Security | Tagged box, cloud storage, Data Loss Prevention, dropbox, egnyte, Encryption, FileLocker, ssl, Star Trek: Enterprise, venturebeat | 2 Responses

On Not Forgetting to be 10x Better

On Not Forgetting to be 10x Better

By Jason M. Lemkin on November 1, 2012

I was struggling what to make of the news that now, AT&T too was jumping into the cloud storage-as-a-commodity business offering 5GB of free online storage.  Just like DropBox.  And Google Drive.  And Box, if you use it that way.  And iCloud.  And SkyDrive.  And.  And.  And. You could make fun of it, but it […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged 10x, ATT, box, Business process, cloud storage, dropbox, idrive, saas

Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed

Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 10, 2012

As cloud computing becomes all the more pervasive, people are rethinking the idea of buying software and hardware suites in favor of best of breed approach. In a way, cloud architecture makes it easy to avoid the integrated stack lock-in as interoperability through open APIs is taken for granted in most cases. At Boxworks 2012, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged api, bestofbreed, box, boxworks, boxworks 2012, business, cloud architecture, insights, legal, suite, Technology | 2 Responses

Pre BoxWorks Thoughts: Box To Play Best Of Breed Game?

Pre BoxWorks Thoughts: Box To Play Best Of Breed Game?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 7, 2012

I am on the plane to attend BoxWorks 2012, the annual user conference of Box. Before hearing anything from Box, I am trying to make sense of Box’s strategy based on what I heard in the past 3 weeks during Salesforce and Tibco events. It will be interesting to hear from Box in the next […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 2012, bestofbreed, box, boxworks, boxworks 2012, chatterbox, dreamforce, dreamforce 2012, insights, salesforce, suite, tibbr, tibco, tucon, tucon 2012 | 7 Responses

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