If you’re a late-stage tech company under pressure from your investors to go public sometime soon, you (and your investors) might be freaking out right now. How can we stage an IPO when Uber’s stock i…
Cloud Marketplaces: Providing Less Glamorous, but Valuable Services You Can’t Touch and Feel
Every day we interact with a variety of online marketplaces that impact how we travel, shop and dine. Companies like Uber, Airbnb and Netflix have redefined how we interact with the people around us t…
More Proof That Silicon Valley is Still About Silicon
Two years ago, we wrote about how the explosion of new big-data and artificial-intelligence technologies was spurring a renaissance in an old Silicon Valley business—semiconductors—and putting the “si…
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Enter OpenCloud, Where Modern IT Embraces Open Source and the Cloud
In the last two years, well over $50 billion in equity value has been generated by a handful of companies selling “open-source” software. This is technology that used to be considered nerdy, cult-ish …
Can You Hear Me Now? AI Tackles Voice and Video
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that artificial intelligence is a big business trend right now. Corporate America is agog at the possibility of using AI to better extract and analyze …
From Art to Science – How AI is Upending the Sales Productivity Landscape
Sales has traditionally been more “Mad Men” than “math men”—more art than science, with success based on soft skills, a killer Rolodex and, sometimes, a good golf game. But that’s changing now, thanks…
Market Makers and Shakers in 2019: Enterprise Tech Predictions for the New Year
OK, so I was a bit delayed in pulling out my crystal ball this year. But now that I’ve done it, I see plenty of overlooked trends on the horizon that will impact the enterprise-tech market in 2019. So…
The IBM/Red Hat Tango: Elephants Can Dance Too—to the Tune of Open Source
You probably heard the news: IBM is buying open-source pioneer Red Hat for a whopping $34 billion, paying a 63% premium to the company’s open-market price stock. It represents the largest software acq…
Another Open-Source IPO Shows the Market Power of “Free” Software
Last week brought more evidence that open-source software has gone mainstream—and that the IPO market for business-focused tech companies is back. Open-source company Elastic, whose software helps big…
AI Startups: Here’s Your Guide to Get Beyond the Hype and Drive a Commercially Successful Business
My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are flooded with AI news these days, as are most popular news media outlets. And with good reason: McKinsey claimed in a report earlier this year that AI could create bet…