by Robert Solomon | Jul 14, 2014 | B2B Software
My last post noted that Yodlee, a data aggregation provider in financial services, had filed to go public. This week a provider of cloud-based marketing automation, Yodle, also filed. Marketing automation software is one of the great growth stories in B2B and B2B2C...
by Robert Solomon | Jul 7, 2014 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments
While the hit parade of small biotech IPOs continues, the number of cloud software IPOs has slowed to a trickle. Perhaps everyone is just waiting for the mother of all B2B IPOs, Alibaba? In the meantime Yodlee, a company whose name has been around since...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 29, 2014 | Uncategorised |
A recent Planet Money podcast about CHEP, a pallet company, reminded me how simple business model changes can transform an industry. (You can listen to the podcast here. Or read a great article about the industry here.) If you love business and you do not...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 14, 2014 | Airlines, B2B Software, Ecosystem, Industry Concentration, Travel |
An alert reader, Brett Owens, pointed out that I had compared Sabre and Travelport (two of the three major GDSs in the world) but failed to compare them to Amadeus, which is the largest of the three and is already public in the UK! I’m rectifying the situation...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 10, 2014 | Airlines, B2B Software, Pricing, Travel, Vertical Cloud |
In April, I wrote about the “grand-daddy of B2B platforms”, Sabre, and their then-pending IPO. See here and here. Recently one of their competitors, Travelport, followed suit and also filed for an IPO. It’s one of the few recent B2B software IPOs...
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