What does it take to build and scale a winning sales organization? Last month Battery convened more than 100 sales leaders to explore this topic. Featuring panelists from Salesforce, SAP, Coupa*, Glas…
Amazon’s Werner Vogels Headlines Second Annual CloudNY Conference
The depth and continuing vibrancy of the cloud-software industry was on display earlier this month at the second-annual CloudNY conference for cloud founders and CEOs—an event that drew nearly 150 exe…
Five Questions in Five Minutes with the CEO of Sprinklr
Portfolio Spotlight: Ragy Thomas, CEO of Sprinklr Each month, Battery highlights a different portfolio-company CEO with our “Five Questions in Five Minutes” feature, showcasing the diversity of the Ba…
Mind the GAAP: Figuring Out the New ASC 606 Revenue-Recognition Standard
When the SEC says jump, you respond “how high?” And so, for tech-company CFOs, changes related to generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, are not something to be taken lightly. Revenue reco…
Silicon Valley Success Doesn’t Require the Silicon Valley Address
Greater San Francisco isn’t overrated, just overpriced. It pays to consider starting up where necessities, from housing to talent, haven’t already been bid up to the stratosphere. In the e…
What Drives the Highest Rated Cloud Computing Companies to Work For?
Just how important is company culture and employee happiness in the current, ultra-competitive tech economy? In a word, very. That is the main takeaway from the second annual Battery Ventures/Glassdoo…
Five Questions in Five Minutes with the CEO of Entelo
Portfolio Spotlight: Jon Bischke, CEO of Entelo Each month, Battery highlights a different portfolio-company CEO with our “Five Questions in Five Minutes” feature, showcasing the diversity of the Batt…
What Cognitive Science Taught Me About Design
I graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Cognitive Science. Everytime I tell someone that, their immediate reply is, “What’s that?” Well, the University of Virginia is a 200-year old…
Beyond eBay: Lessons from the Experts in Scaling Today’s Online Marketplaces
We’ve come a long way from eBay. That famous online marketplace from the Internet 1.0 era—best known for hawking kitschy collectibles like Pez dispensers—is a far cry from the highly targeted, sophist…
Five Questions in Five Minutes with the CEO of Collibra
Portfolio Spotlight: Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra Each month, Battery highlights a different portfolio-company CEO with our “Five Questions in Five Minutes” feature, showcasing the diversity o…