By R "Ray" Wang on September 6, 2013
Zuora Rides The Wave In The Subscription Economy On September 5th, 2013, Foster City, CA based Zuora, announced $50 million in Series E capital. The announcement has significant ramifications not only for Zuora’s self proclaimed subscription economy category, but also the broader business theme of matrix commerce because Zuora: Expanded the investor pool. Zuora successfully […]
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By Denis Pombriant on August 26, 2011
As often happens in evolutionary systems, availability precedes demand. That’s a complicated way to say that we build products then figure out what they’re good for. It’s not that innovators develop things willy-nilly, but no matter how well thought out an innovation is, the marketplace has the last word on its utility. When we speak […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged accounting, billing, economics, Subscription business model, subscription economy, technology, Zuora
By Denis Pombriant on March 14, 2011
Recently I wrote a couple of posts about Apple’s plan to charge vendors 30% of the transaction price for anything sold through the Apple Store (aka App Store). For many things like software and songs I think this makes a lot of sense. If you consider that the SG&A line of a […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, billing, CRM, economics, John Maynard Keynes, journalism, keynes, publishing, robber baron, Subscription billing, technology
By Denis Pombriant on January 26, 2011
Well, this is interesting. Today NetSuite announced a Renewal Management offering for its Software Company Edition. The module is aimed at supporting recurring revenue management, a heretofore ignored need for the growing legion of software as a service companies. The product appears to be NetSuite’s answer to solutions from players like Zuora and Aria who […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Aria, billing, CRM, economics, netsuite, SaaS, software as a service, technology, Zuora |
By Denis Pombriant on November 9, 2010
Zuora, the subscription billing company announced that it has concluded its Series C round of financing raising $20 million and bringing its total capital investments to $41.5 million. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures and the existing investors including Benchmark Capital, Marc Benioff, Shasta Ventures and Tenaya Capital also participated. This strong performance says […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Benchmark Capital, billing, CRM, economics, Redpoint Ventures, salesforce, Shasta Ventures, subscriptioni economy, technology, Tenaya Capital, Zuora
By R "Ray" Wang on September 6, 2010
Recessionary Forces Challenge Organizations To Not Only Right Channel, But Also Personalize Organizations with e-commerce initiatives face a flurry of competitive forces that challenge existing assumptions put in place a decade ago. On the operational efficiency front, organizations must battle reduced product margins, shorter product life cycles, greater pricing transparency, and increased friction in multi-channel […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 4, 2010
Acquisition Consolidates Two Market Leaders In The Project Based Solutions Market
Deltek announced on June 3rd that they would acquire Maconomy for $72.7M ($3.39/share (DKK 20.50)). Maconomy is a leading project based solutions (PBS) software company (~35.6M 2009 revenues) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Deltek is a 265.8M (2009 revenues) PBS software vendor based in Herndon, VA. […]
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