Ever since the pandemic hit the U.S. in full-force last March, the B2B tech community keeps asking the same questions: Are businesses spending more on technology? What’s the money getting spent on? Is…
Ever since the pandemic hit the U.S. in full-force last March, the B2B tech community keeps asking the same questions: Are businesses spending more on technology? What’s the money getting spent on? Is…
COVID-19 has upended our world. In our ongoing conversations with senior executives in our network, we learned recently about how the crisis is impacting corporate IT spending priorities. Interestingl…
We are living through a global crisis of unprecedented scale. In the U.S., last week’s unemployment numbers were literally the worst in history. And yet some knowledge workers are quickly settling int…
Just like your business can’t run without cash, your product won’t succeed unless it genuinely fits your target market. Product-market fit is particularly essential for enterprise-software companies t…
To kick off the new year, Battery and its partner Silicon Valley Bank hosted roughly 25 top technology executives at a two-day Innovation Summit in Napa Valley. The summit was a forum for CIOs, CTOs, …
On a recent visit to Battery Ventures’ Boston office, BP’s Bob Flint sat down with me for a conversation on emerging technology. This is a space that Bob knows well, as he serves as the technology dir…
The story of early-stage start-ups selling to global titans can sometimes read like Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea: The unlucky fisherman Santiago returns to port exhausted after battling a huge marl…
Eight years ago, a book called “Start-up Nation” opened the world’s eyes to the breathtaking pace of startup activity in Israel. Today, an Israel-based nonprofit called Start-Up Nation Central estimat…
Powered by Battery recently sat down with Ibrahim Haddad, a vice president of R&D and head of the Open Source Group at technology giant Samsung. In this role, Haddad oversees all the company’s ope…
Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse” teaches us that little friends ultimately may prove to be great friends. In the fable, a lion captures and then releases a mouse on the rodent’s claim that somed…