TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

These range from small startups to large enterprises and as Staples and Asgar noted, there was already a substantial overlap between the two customer bases. Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform. Currently, about 300 teams use the Pixie platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Edge computing is seeing an explosion of interest as enterprises process more data at the edge of their networks. Jeff Ready asserts that his company, Scale Computing , can help enterprises that aren’t sure where to start with edge computing via storage architecture and disaster recovery technologies. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Taylor spent four years at Google starting in March 2003 before undertaking an entrepreneurial journey, founding early social network FriendFeed in 2007, right after leaving Google. He would later found Quip, an enterprise document collaboration company, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 for $750 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

We also came to the conclusion that technical sales professionals have been the unsung heroes of sales, behind the scenes driving enterprise.”. Investors in the company include Tom Noonan, general partner of Atlanta-based TechOperators (and former chairman and CEO of Internet Security Systems, which was acquired in 2007 by IBM for $1.3

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2016

The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. They are the workhorse of the enterprise. Bob Gourley. PCs are not going away. But we are definitely in a mobile era and new modes of delivering computational power will continue to dominate the ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This isn’t the first time Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz have launched a startup together — they also founded video networking company BigBand Networks , which won two technology-related Emmy Awards, went public in 2007 and was acquired by Arris Group in 2011.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

” Under CEO Phil Libin, who joined the company in 2007, Evernote shifted its focus to the web, smartphones and Mac, starting with Evernote 3.0 This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Monkey has developed what it describes as Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programs for small and medium enterprises. It pairs up SMEs with large enterprises such as Brazilian petrochemical giant Petrobras and Fiat Chrysler, and banks. So what does that mean exactly? Monkey had previously raised about $1.5

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. The idea should be in alignment with the overall vision and mission of the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The seven-person company wants to focus on getting the product “right” before attempting to monetize and launch to enterprises (which will likely happen next year), Ko said. Plus, in his view, there has been very little innovation in cloud storage since Dropbox launched in 2007. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

That book, “ The New Rules of Marketing and PR ,” was published in 2007 and proved to be a seminal work in the field. Around the same time, a marketing professional who had grown tired of corporate life, David Meerman Scott , was writing a playbook for marketers to understand this new way of delivering content.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Many a good enterprise has been blown to pieces by a CEO with either no vision or the wrong vision. These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I would argue even in the 2007 timeframe when we started our firm, we specifically focused on things we think Boston excels at.I But if you’re building a startup, especially something that sells to enterprise, those are perfect early adopters and proofs of concept. We’re an enterprise, deep tech, somewhat risk-averse town.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

“We see a lot of appetite in the market towards using modern API-first solutions … It resonates with CIOs and enterprise architects who want to move away from traditional all-in-one monolithic solutions, such as Adobe or Sitecore, to a more flexible technology stack of carefully chosen solutions that fit the needs of the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Is the input being provided for the benefit of the source or the benefit of the enterprise? Bias : Are there any hidden and/or competing agendas that are coloring the input being received?

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Is there a point when satisfying the customer is actually harmful to the enterprise, or back to the original question, is the customer always right? How far should a company go to satisfy their clientele or customer base? What is the lost opportunity cost associated with customer churn?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Don’t allow your enterprise to adopt an attitude of complacency, because the simple truth is that complacency kills companies. Don’t allow your enterprise to adopt an attitude of complacency, because the simple truth is that complacency kills companies. or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

To achieve maximum success I believe it is incumbent upon an entrepreneur to take an honest inventory of his/her skill sets and competencies, and contrast them with the needs of the enterprise as it relates to what is required to efficiently and effectively lead the company forward.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

One would hope that the employees would understand and put the needs of the enterprise ahead of their expectation that this year’s bonus should eclipse that of the previous year, but would they? How do the employees feel about this?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor. This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

SightCall has some 200 big-name enterprise customers on its books, including the likes of Kraft-Heinz, Allianz, GE Healthcare and Lincoln Motor Company, providing services on a B2B basis as well as for teams that are out in the field working for consumer customers, too. Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Furthermore, in well run organizations you can determine which initiatives are most important to the enterprise by examining which leaders are tasked to what initiatives. Great organizations assign their best leaders to the most significant opportunities and/or to correct key shortcomings (see previous post: Resourcing 101 for CEOs ).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It is more critical than ever in today’ economic climate that leadership development be a top priority for CEOs who want to build a thriving enterprise moving forward. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

million in outside equity since our founding in 2007. Prior to issuing $10.0 million of convertible notes (which we also refer to as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity agreement (SAFE)) in a private financing round in August 2021, we had raised less than $3.0 Here’s a reminder.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

For example, Lockheed Martin Ventures has pledged only around $200 million toward startups since 2007. Perhaps as a result of those misgivings, defense-focused corporate funds have invested relatively little capital over the years. As of 2020, HorizonX, which was founded in 2017, had made just 25 investments — all less than $10 million.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If all enterprises had socially acceptable values and based all behavior on those values, how would that have changed the outcomes of things like, for example, Enron Corporation, Bernard L. Think about that.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate. Stating that a CEO of a start-up should operate with the same term limit constraints of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company is very unrealistic and dangerous thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Rather than binding the enterprise to a rigid set of static operating principles and procedures, the elasticity and flexibility of a well defined business model allows the organization to influence necessary inflection points and key business drivers in a real-time manner.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It just happens to make salads instead of, say, enterprise software. It was founded in 2007, per Crunchbase data, making it nearly old enough to secure a learner’s permit to drive in the United States. It’s an incredibly well-backed unicorn, in other words. But Sweetgreen is no corporate child.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have personally witnessed companies that embarked upon an enterprise-wide initiative because they were sold on “best practices&# and after two years into a seven-figure implementation without any meaningful benefit woke-up to the fact that purchasing a product as a solution absolutely does not constitute best practices.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Oh, and by the way…if you’re a CEO you better have a very clear understanding of what your customers are experiencing at every level of interaction across your enterprise. Great CEOs personally experience their business as a consistent consumer of its services. Richard Branson is a frequent passenger on Virgin flights.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

They understand how to effectively deploy these highly productive and valuable team members to create tremendous leverage and velocity across the enterprise. As a CEO you can either pit your executives against one another, or have them collaboratively engage in supporting one another for the overall good of the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

In 2013, Citigroup acknowledged that it failed to safeguard Social Security numbers, birthdates and other sensitive data for nearly 150,000 customers who filed for bankruptcy between 2007 to 2011, owing to a redaction software issue. “Most people are thinking about managing the liability that comes with touching sensitive data. .

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 31, 2023

Apache Camel is everything but a new arrival in the area of the Java enterprise stacks. Created by James Strachan in 2007, it aimed at being the implementation of the famous "EIP book" ( Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, published by Addison Wesley in October 2003).

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