by Robert Solomon | May 9, 2012 | Surplus Goods, Uncategorised |
I’m not exactly sure what to call the companies that match buyers and sellers of surplus/used goods–especially of the capital variety. They really are marketplaces, but having lived through the original “marketplace” era, I find it hard to...
by Robert Solomon | May 7, 2012 | Valuation
It’s earnings season and it is starting to feel a little like January of 2000 again, though on a much smaller scale. If you remember that era, the consumer Internet bubble (B2C) burst around that time and the market briefly decided that there had to be another...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorised
A few months ago, I posted a graphic display of my never-ending quest to map B2B commerce providers into their proper vertical and horizontal segments. At that time, the graphic included over 260 companies. Below, I’m attaching my latest version of the graphic...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 11, 2012 | Uncategorised |
Supply Chain Finance is coming! Supply Chain Finance is coming! Supply Chain Finance is coming! Many observers, including me, have been saying this for 7 years, so it is hard not to feel like Chicken Little. But I think SCF may finally be happening–at some...
by Robert Solomon | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorised
The first decade of the 21st century (2001-2010) ended up being about automating the source-to-settle process for catalog content, this decade seems to be about doing the same for all sorts of services. (Yes, apparently these things take a decade–though the...
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