Have we reached “peak software”? Just like the idea of “peak oil” — the hypothetical point at which global oil production could max out — you could say we’re approaching a saturation point for venture…
Software 2018: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
Software’s accelerating growth across the economy, and society, is making technology more indispensable in our everyday lives. Affecting everything from workplace productivity to our dating lives, the…
Battery SaaS Success Database – Q2 and Q3 2016 Updates
It’s been two quarters since we have publicly updated our SaaS Success database, our proprietary Battery list of private, public and acquired SaaS-company standouts, and my how things have changed! Du…
Mobile Marketing and Analytics Hits its Stride
Mobile could be considered the largest technological shift in history. Many of the largest outcomes in venture capital in the past 15 years have come from mobile-consumer companies: Facebook (which wa…
Battery SaaS Success Database – Q1 2016 Update
Given all the tumult in public markets recently, we were curious to update our SaaS Success Database, our proprietary Battery list of private, public and acquired SaaS-company standouts.…
Veeva CEO Peter Gassner on Becoming an Industry Cloud Leader
As part of our SaaS Adventure series, focused on successful SaaS founders, we recently sat down with Peter Gassner, the CEO of Veeva. As many of our SaaS-focused readers likely know, Veeva was founded…
SaaS Success Database–Q4 2015 Update
It’s time again to update our SaaS Success Database, our proprietary Battery list of private, public and acquired SaaS-company standouts.…
Should You Shift Your Enterprise Software Company’s Fiscal Year?
Do twelve sequential months always add up to one fiscal year? Technically yes, but we’ve recently observed that not all sequences seem to be created equal.…
Anatomy Of A Successful SaaS Company Founder
How do you build a billion-dollar SaaS enterprise software company? For one thing, you might start with a CEO who looks less like Box’s youthful Aaron Levie and more like Salesforce’s Marc Benioff—and…
SaaS Success Database Q3 Update
It’s been a little over a month since we unveiled our SaaS Success Database, a 66-company list of private, public and acquired SaaS-company standouts. The reaction to this list, and the accompanying d…