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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

Dreamforce '14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now

Dreamforce ’14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now

By Quinton Wall on September 24, 2014

On the fence about whether the DF ’14 developer keynote is for you? The developer keynote is for anyone who wants to create new apps, or extend and customize their existing salesforce implementation. Reserve your seat now before they sell out!

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged #df14, developer, dreamforce, Featured, platform, salesforce

The Simple Reason Why There Will be 10-20 Great CRM IPOs in the Next Few Years

The Simple Reason Why There Will be 10-20 Great CRM IPOs in the Next Few Years

By Jason M. Lemkin on March 17, 2014

I wrote a while back about Room at The Bottom, and how once a space gets big enough (~$100m) or so … the biggest guys end up abandoning many of the smallest customers and segments in their space.  Which once a space is at, say $100m in market size, can open up a $10m hole […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged CRM, dropbox, Entrepreneurship, ipo, salesforce, salesforce.com, startups, sugarcrm, Uncategorized, wordpress

Dreamforce1 - The Context of Salesforce1

Dreamforce1 – The Context of Salesforce1

By John Taschek on November 18, 2013

You cannot deal with modern problems using antiquated systems. – Ramon Baez, Senior VP & CIO, HP @RamonfBaez, cited here by @valaafshar I have been to every Dreamforce, and I plan on going to every future one, so long as I remain of sound body and mind. It’s not just…

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged developers, df13, dreamforce, dreamforce1, Internet of Customers, Internet of Things, salesforce, salesforce.com, salesforce1

Space Invasion @ Dreamforce

Space Invasion @ Dreamforce

By Zoli Erdos on November 17, 2013

Last year I made a bit of fun of Oracle, picking on the symbolism in their closed, walled conference setup vs. the open festival-like environment at Salesforce.com’s competing event.  Here’s a little pictorial reminder: Dreamforce did not even feel like a conference, rather a Festival – Woodstock, Mardi Gras, SXSW – your pick.  Fun.  Contrast that to Oracle’s […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged #oow13, df13, Mardi Gras, Oracle, Oracle Openworld, salesforce, salesforce.com

Friday Vendor Roundup: Socialtext, Lithium Technologies, Salesforce

Friday Vendor Roundup: Socialtext, Lithium Technologies, Salesforce

By Jacob Morgan on September 6, 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 Application Software | Tagged Friday Vendor Roundup, lithium technologies, salesforce, social text, socialtext

One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

By Mark Suster on March 20, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. “We want low-touch or zero-touch businesses” was the mantra. I believe it’s flawed. While I have some sympathy with […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged consulting, Enetrprise Sales, Entrepreneur Advice, Entrepreneurship, implementation, professional services, proserv, salesforce, salesforce.com, SI, startups, system integrator, vc funding, venture capital | 3 Responses

Acquisition News – Cloud Sherpas Broadens the Franchise and Moves Into ITSM

Acquisition News – Cloud Sherpas Broadens the Franchise and Moves Into ITSM

By Ben Kepes on January 16, 2013

I’ve been covering  Cloud Sherpas since its inception – I’m particularly interested in this new breed of services brokerage that is proving successful despite deriving its revenue from a small sliver of a very small annual charge – this in comparison to the traditional on-premise world where companies enjoyed massive consulting fees for implementation project […]

Posted in Business | Tagged appirio, cloud sherpas, cloudsherpas, google, google apps, salesforce, salesforce.com, ServiceNow, sherpa

What Will Identity Look Like in the Future?

What Will Identity Look Like in the Future?

By Ben Kepes on December 6, 2012

At the defrag conference recently, I took part in a few sessions that looks at the broader role of identity in a world were more and more people use cloud-based tools. One of the sessions was led by Pat Patterson, Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. In his session, Patterson drew a picture of the history […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, Identity Management, microsoft, Pat Patterson, salesforce, salesforce.com, SAML 2.0, software as a service | 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

Workday Launches Version 18 – Quick Analysis

Workday Launches Version 18 – Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes on November 5, 2012

At the Workday Rising event being held in Las Vegas this week, Workday announced the latest version of its product, on top of which they held an analyst/influcner day that I was following remotely. I’ve got a few thoughts about the analyst day but first a recap of the news.

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged #wday, Human resources, linkedin, Performance Management, salesforce, SAP AG, software as a service, workday, Workday 18, Workday Rising | 1 Response

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

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

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

By Ben Kepes on October 4, 2012

I’ve been attending Salesforce’s user conference now for a few years and one thing that’s always been a little awkward is the fact that Salesforce has always tried to make the event meaningful for developers but has generally created a kind of Frankenstein beast where suited business types get highbrow in the main conference whilst […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged #df12, appexchange, dreamforce, heroku, Heroku Platform, opensource, Redmonk, salesforce, salesforce.com

MindTouch Delivers Knowledge Base for Salesforce Customers

MindTouch Delivers Knowledge Base for Salesforce Customers

By Ben Kepes on October 1, 2012

MindTouch is one of the early leaders in the Enterprise 2.0 space –their CEO, Aaron Fulkerson was a regular attendee on the conference circuit. Over the last couple of years however, MindTouch has gone pretty silent as  market conditions and heightened competition caused them to disappear from view. I bumped into Fulkerson in San Diego […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged aaron fulkerson, customer relationship management, customer service, enterprise 2.0, mindtouch, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Diego | 2 Responses

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