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April 16, 2019
Salesforce yesterday announced a move to reposition how it provides software to and works with nonprofits like educational institutions and charities: the company announced that it would integrate…
Read articleApril 11, 2019
The SoftBank Vision Fund has been screaming from the venture headlines the last few months, driven by eye-popping rounds (and valuations!) into some of the most notable startups…
Read articleApril 10, 2019
Anyone who has dealt with bad customer service has felt frustration with the lack of basic understanding of who you are as a customer and what you need.…
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Today’s startups have a distinct advantage when it comes to launching a company because of the public cloud. You don’t have to build infrastructure or worry about what…
Read articleMarch 29, 2019
As I walked the long halls of Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas and listened to the company’s marketing and data integration story, I thought about the…
Read articleMarch 26, 2019
Marketing analytics is an increasingly complex business. It’s meant to collect as much information as possible across multiple channels from multiple tools and provide marketers with as complete…
Read articleMarch 26, 2019
As we wrote last week in How Salesforce paved the way for the SaaS platform approach, the ability to build extensions, applications and even whole companies on top…
Read articleMarch 22, 2019
When we think of enterprise SaaS companies today, just about every startup in the space aspires to be a platform. That means they want people using their stack…
Read articleMarch 21, 2019
Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco’s Pier 48 to see the more than 200 companies in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort present their two-minute pitches. The audience…
Read articleMarch 19, 2019
When Salesforce bought Quip in 2016 for $750 million, it was fair to wonder what it planned to do with it. While company founder Bret Taylor has moved…
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