by Robert Solomon | Feb 17, 2015 | B2B Software
Of course, by unicorns I mean tech “start-ups” with $1 billion-plus valuations. Fortune’s cover story entitled “The Age of Unicorns”provides a handy list of such unicorns and this nifty graphic. You will see a few enterprise examples...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 11, 2015 | B2B Software, Healthcare, Industry Big Data
One of the nine value propositions of B2B platforms is Industry Big Data. Industry Big Data means extracting, cleansing, and adding value to vertical specific data to provide new insights into price, quality, and performance to an industry’s participants....
by Robert Solomon | Feb 5, 2015 | Automobile, B2B Software, Surplus Goods
Insight Venture Partners is taking E2Open (EOPN) private in a $273 million transaction (ht to Jason Trevisan). E2open, as loyal readers know, started as a consortium of electronics manufacturers. EOPN built a supply chain network for that industry (and others) as...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 5, 2015 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking
There is a lot written about the need for online marketplaces and exchanges to build trust and provide transparency to all participants. Examples of issues experienced in the past are: Battles fighting fraud at both eBay and PayPal Alibaba’s high-profile (and...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 3, 2015 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Insurance, Matchmaking, Supply Chain Automation
Bottomline Technologies (EPAY) is a public financial services software company that is not very well-known, despite its enviable name. EPAY’s relative anonymity may stem from several sources: They are headquartered in New Hampshire. They have a bunch of...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 20, 2015 | B2B Software, Ecosystem, Valuation
The Box prospectus offers a great lesson in Enterprise SaaS economics. Box is a low-priced, simple SaaS application (storage). It represents the type of SaaS application typically sold to consumers, but Box has the enterprise as their target market. Box has grown...
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