The depth and continuing vibrancy of the cloud-software industry was on display earlier this month at the second-annual CloudNY conference for cloud f…
Business Software
Thoughts and advice for software-as-a-service entrepreneurs on their journey to ‘triple, triple, double, double, double’ their revenue and build billion-dollar companies.
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 fr…
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 dispens…
How Your Business-Focused Startup Can Snag a “Big-Fish” Client—Without Missing the Other Fish in the Sea
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 re…
Meet Your Company’s New Data Scientist: The CFO
This guest post is from Robert Reid, CEO of Battery portfolio company Intacct*, which was acquired by Sage for $850 million in July 2017. Big data is …
Bringing Procurement Into the 21st Century—and the Cloud
There are lots of three-letter acronyms in business, but one of the most-dreaded is RFP—request for proposal. Why? Well, buying things at scale for a …
Reflecting on the First-Ever CloudNY
Last week, about 140 top CEOs and software-company founders stuck their heads in the cloud. These leaders—and more than a dozen high-profile speakers—…
European SaaS Startups Moving to NYC: Keep ‘em Coming
Part of a venture capitalist’s job is to track macro trends to understand how they may affect investment decisions. These trends may be related to lar…
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-com…
Infographic: Behind The 25 Highest Rated Public Cloud Companies To Work For List
Battery Ventures recently teamed back up with Glassdoor*, the jobs and recruiting marketplace, to produce a list of the “25 Highest Rated Public Cloud…