by Robert Solomon | Feb 5, 2014 | Construction, Uncategorised
When facilities maintenance software attracts a $100 million investment, you know enterprise software is hot. Don’t get me wrong, facilities management software is a fairly interesting space (nerd alert), but I did not expect this level of love from PE firms!...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 28, 2014 | Airlines, B2B Software, Travel
In my last post, I promised to share some lessons gleaned from SABRE’s 50+ years of history as a B2B transaction platform. Many of these lessons are useful for today’s B2B entrepreneurs. Here are some key points gleaned from Sabre’s history and...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 24, 2014 | Airlines, B2B Software, Industry Cloud, Travel |
Sabre, one the grand-daddies of B2B transaction platforms, recently filed to go public. I should say, the great grand-daddy of all B2B transaction platforms. SABRE, you old fogies will recall, was the original passenger reservation system for American...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 22, 2014 | B2B Software, Healthcare
The number of cloud marketplaces that match businesses (or consumers) with an individual service provider or service providing company is hard to estimate. I’ve written about elance and odesk and several others. A recent article on usv.com cataloged a few more....
by Robert Solomon | Jan 21, 2014 | Uncategorised
In my year-end review, I promised to revisit Liquidity Services (LQDT) an online marketplace for surplus consumer and governmental goods and capital assets. As I mentioned in that post, LQDT’s stock is down since late 2011, but between then and now the stock...
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