by Robert Solomon | May 26, 2020 | B2B Software, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketplaces
SelectQuote quietly went public last week and soared 40% in its opening day. The company now sports a $4 billion valuation. What’s all the fuss about? Strong growth, great margins, and great, SaaS-like metrics in its core senior insurance segment. About...
by Robert Solomon | May 19, 2020 | B2B Software, Retail, Supply Chain Automation
Gartner recently issued the second iteration of its Magic Quadrant for Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Networks (MESCBNs). (Catchy acronym, huh?) While, there’s no perfect definition of a Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Network, Gartner’s...
by Robert Solomon | May 11, 2020 | E-invoicing, Indirect Spend, Legal
A couple of weeks ago Bodhala, a legal spend management provider, raised $10 million in growth equity. In March, Persuit, “a first-to-market platform that facilitates a competitive process for sourcing outside legal counsel” was named by Fast Company as...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 28, 2020 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Industry Cloud, Vertical Cloud
Content wars are raging in Hollywood. Netflix, Apple+, Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, etc are battling for our eyeballs, especially now that we stuck at home. (Netflix added 15 million new subscribers last quarter!) In 2019, the industry spent $120 billion producing...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 23, 2020 | B2B Software, Marketplaces, Matchmaking |
Recently I did a post on B2B Marketplaces 2.0. In it, I asserted that one of the reasons that B2B marketplaces might be seeing a resurgence is that B2B marketplace infrastructure can now be bought, rather than needing to be built from scratch. After a little more...
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