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Storm Ventures $180M SaaS Fund – Congrat’s Jason & Anshu

By Zoli Erdos on May 8, 2015

Congratulations to fellow Enterprise Irregulars Jason Lemkin and Anshu Sharma on raising the new Fund, and to Anshu on joining Storm Ventures. Oh, and thanks for pimping the EI early in the video

Posted in Business | Tagged SaaS, startups, Storm Ventures, TechCrunch, vc funding, venture funding

CRM Watchlist 2015 Elite, Part 4: Salesforce does it again

CRM Watchlist 2015 Elite, Part 4: Salesforce does it again

By Paul Greenberg on February 12, 2015

Salesforce has won mindshare at a level so substantial that all other companies — including much bigger ones — compete against it. Salesforce is Elite, all right. But is it perfect?

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, CRM, CRM Watchlist, CRM Watchlist 2015, enterprise software, Fortune 500, Marc Benioff, salesforce.com, TechCrunch

If You Sell Your Company — Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige

If You Sell Your Company — Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige

By Jason M. Lemkin on June 18, 2014

Recently I did a founders-only event sponsored by ExitRound.  It was off the record, so I won’t go into anything we spoke about. But there was one theme the audience told me from all 4 speakers.  They didn’t know selling was so emotional. If you haven’t sold a start-up before, you think it’s a combination of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged echosign, Entrepreneurship, SaaS, SaaStr, startups, TechCrunch, WhatsApp

Nothing Stops the Box Bunny

Nothing Stops the Box Bunny

By Zoli Erdos on October 7, 2012

OK, so I ‘m abandoning my pictorial post schedule, as Box-mania just broke out, and I feel compelled to jump in.  But the skipped  NetSuite post is coming soon… I’ve been following Box longer than probably most observers and some of the old memories are worth sharing – from an admittedly subjective point of view. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged @levie, Aaron, application software, Box, Box.net, boxworks, collaboration, conferences, df12, Dreamforce, Entrepreneurship, File sharing, Filesharing, Infrastructure, netsuite, salesforce.com, sharepoint, startups, TechCrunch | 2 Responses

More Dreamforce, Please

More Dreamforce, Please

By Denis Pombriant on September 14, 2012

Dreamforce hasn’t even happened yet and I am already wishing it was about double the time it’s set up for.  I’m arriving in San Francisco on Monday, two days before Marc Benioff’s keynote kicks everything off and I am already running late. As has become customary, many Salesforce partners are holding user group meetings just […]

Posted in Business | Tagged benioff, Cloud Computing, CRM, df12, Dreamforce, Kanaracus, networkworld, salesforce, TechCrunch

Tempestuous Relationships

Tempestuous Relationships

By John Taschek on August 15, 2012

In what seems to be from the lower paleothic period but in fact was about a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about the Mean Girls phenomenon and Shakespeare. This in turn was not actually about mean girls or Henry IV, but about the interesting relationship of…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, Facebook, google, innovation, mean girls, microsoft, Social, TechCrunch | 1 Response

TechCrunch trivializes SAP's $3.4B billion cloud acquisition

TechCrunch trivializes SAP’s $3.4B billion cloud acquisition

By Michael Krigsman on December 4, 2011

Photo credit: Cloud watching by Michael Krigsman TechCrunch trumpeted an odd lack of interest in SAP’s acquisition of human capital management vendor, SuccessFactors, for $3.4 billion. The popular technology startup blog offered these choice comments: In what is perhaps the most boring piece of tech news to come out of this week, German software giant […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged aaron levie, Ray Wang, sap, SAPSFSF, SuccessFactor, TechCrunch | 1 Response

Fusion Garage (of CrunchPad-Joo-Joo Fame) Drops Grid 10 Price by $200 – Only $200 More to Go

Fusion Garage (of CrunchPad-Joo-Joo Fame) Drops Grid 10 Price by $200 – Only $200 More to Go

By Zoli Erdos on September 12, 2011

Some things just can’t die. Like the zillionth incarnation of what was formerly known as CrunchPad…. then after a messy divorce from TechCrunch became the Joo-Joo (sold a few dozen units), and now it’s back as the Grid 10.   I have a funny history with this device. I was a major advocate of the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged android, crunchpad, FusionGarage, iPad, JooJoo, Tablets, TechCrunch, technology, webos

Black Hat Social Marketing (aka Maybe Scoble Was a Little Bit Right About Authenticity)

Black Hat Social Marketing (aka Maybe Scoble Was a Little Bit Right About Authenticity)

By Bob Warfield on March 15, 2011

I have to admit: when Scoble blew up over the idea that the Facebook comments adopted by Techcrunch might reduce authenticity, I was convinced he was wrong.  The premise is a simple one: the Facebook commenting system forces you to leave comments under your real name.  The theory is that a lot of people will […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Facebook, marketing, Robert Scoble, strategy, TechCrunch, Web 2.0

Improve Your Blog Reading Signal to Noise Ratio

Improve Your Blog Reading Signal to Noise Ratio

By Bob Warfield on December 26, 2010

Since I subscribe to almost 200 blogs, it’s critical for me to keep a high signal to noise ratio.  In other words, the posts that show up in my reader need to be things I really want to read.  If I’m spending all my time separating the wheat from the chaff, then I’m wasting my […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogging, google, Google Reader, ReadWriteWeb, RSS, signal to noise ratio, strategy, TechCrunch, TechMeme, Twitter, Web 2.0

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