Anshu Sharma
Partner, Storm Ventures. Previously VP of product management & strategy at salesforce.com across applications and platform. Previously founded and led Oracle SaaS Platform, and held engineering and product management roles in SOA and Identity Management. Anshu has a B. Tech. (Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. Read his blog here.
Salesforce CEO Benioff regretted scaling back in 2009
Here’s the deal: if you cut your sales hiring and scale back your expectations — you may end up regretting it. Marc Benioff did. In 2008–2009, at the height of the panic, I was at Salesforce and Marc Benioff responded to the (much bigger and real) global economic crisis by cutting back on expenses and hiring fewer sales people. […]
Diffusing the Zoombombs
Time for WFH Collaboration Security is Now Now that we are all on Zoom, Slack, Teams, Box and more such apps to get our jobs done while WFH, we must face up to the risks that come with collaboration tools especially when collaborating with people outside your company. According to Techcrunch, Zoombombing is a thing. And the […]
The SaaS Billionaires and Naysayers
If you are on your journey as an entrepreneur to truly build something new and revolutionary, you will hear a lot of naysayers along the way. Salesforce and Workday both announced their financial results — once again showing that they continue to grow as part of the larger movement to SaaS. Salesforce is now generating almost half […]
Deconstructing Governments: Is Estonia the first Full Stack Government Startup?
The purpose of a government is provide services to its citizens. After all its all about ‘for the people’. Many of these services are not related to a geographical boundary – a few like fire, safety and roads are. This is why we already experience multiple government bodies – city, county, state and federal but […]
Is Your Product Roadmap Just Burning Your Money?
The number 1 mistake I have seen companies of all sizes make is to let the customers, sales people, engineers and tactical product managers decide the product roadmap by adding one feature after another. by Disaster Area (Creative Commons) If you have product market fit and are doing more than a few million dollars in ARR […]
Full Stack Startup Index – and the hunt for Uber Unicorns
Given that full stack companies are in a league of their own – in terms of the markets they serve and how they are built – I think its time to maintain a list of all full stack startups.Before we do that, let me give you a brief definition of Full Stack startup that builds […]
Tech Bubble? Full Stack Goes Beyond $3.7 Trillion IT Budget
I want to convince you that this time it really is different. Its fundamentally different because the silicon valley is bursting out of tech. In the earlier generational shifts of computing paradigms from mainframes to client server and then from client server to internet, we were primarily still constrained by the IT budget.Gartner predicts IT […]
Is your company about to be BlackBuried?
I had an interesting conversation with a fellow executive at Blackberry 4 years ago who wanted my opinion on their product strategy. What I said to him was so obvious that I almost hesitated – build an Android phone. Now, this was common wisdom in silicon valley that if you ran BB you would have […]
The Social Kerfuffle: What is an Employee?
Who owns the behavior of an employee on the social networks? In a world where we have all gone BYOD, and I would posit – gone BYOS (Bring your own “Social Network”) – who owns what? And who is responsible when an error is made by the employee? What is an error? What is an […]
What is Really Not Being Said About Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is not a game. The key players are asking ordinary people to invest their real-world money into a virtual currency that has a lot of potential to save us on transaction costs and speed but is also one of the easiest ways to lose half a billion dollars with no recourse! Brian wrote an […]
