Online real estate marketplace Trulia acquires Market Leader, a company that provides a software-as-a-service solution for real estate professionals, for $355 million.
Guest Post The education space is massive, very broken, barely touched by technology and has been largely underserved by entrepreneurs and investors. The opportunity for disruption, significant value creation and outsized returns is huge.
"We're kinda matching Zendesk and Evernote in user growth curve," Holmes said. "Our progressive cycle to each additional million is getting shorter and shorter, which is a good thing."
BizSlate is ideal for companies that have "outgrown Quickbooks" but don't have ample resources at their disposal.
Guest Post We are in the early innings of a new wave of business-focused marketplaces that are likely to succeed, thanks to SaaS, which can serve as the system of record, and generate predictable revenue.
Guest Post Despite all the inroads cloud computing has made among business users, it still hasn’t broken through the enterprise IT logjam. I see it as a cultural issue: IT organizations love control and complexity.
After hacktivists groups like Anonymous and Lulzsec set out to hack well-known institutions, it seems like everyone is interested in security. That's a good thing for Whitehat Security, which raised its fourth round of funding to keep up with demand.
Guest Post In the big SaaS land-grab, many companies are fully focused on pulling in new customers and are leaving existing customers untended.
Guest Post The current media hype around Big Data has clouded where the real opportunity is: software applications that exploit Big Data.
Guest Post As we move into delivering software-as-a-service, several fundamental assumptions made with enterprise software are no longer valid. An entirely new set of assumptions must be followed to achieve success.
Veterans of the Software-as-Service industry launch platform to help DevOps teams "be victorious" when managing their IT systems.
Enterprise collaboration platform Smartsheets raises $26 million to reimagine the spreadsheet.
On June 29, a site slowdown put Cinchcast's cloud to the test.
Reality check: After two acquisitions of companies in a similar space, layoffs are a matter of course.
Softarex's software seeks out problems in deep source code and suggests improvements.
Medallia's Customer Experience Management software gets $35 million from Sequoia.
Most companies use at least 4 different cloud services, according to a study by Cloudability, proof that the cloud has become a ubiquitous tool, whether chief information officers want it to be or not.
Cloudability (a provider of cost-management tools …
New York-based startup MightyMeeting has its sights on boosting mobile productivity in the enterprise. In keeping with the growing trend of using tablets to do work, MightyMeeting is unveiling a collaboration app called MightyTeams for the iPad and Android tablets.…
Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching them fail from a lack of nerve is tragic.
Excitement
At the beginning of this year Bob, one of my ex-students was in entrepreneurial heaven. He had an idea for a new …
Everybody should see Marc Benioff live and unplugged. The chief executive of Salesforce.com gave an amusing keynote speech at the AME restaurant in San Francisco this week after getting booted out of Oracle OpenWorld 2011.
We caught his Q&A with …
