“I can understand perfectly how the report of my illness got about, I have even heard on good authority that I was dead.” Mark Twain Actually there was once a good reason to declare things dead. It made good clickbait. And if there was a smart strategy behind it, it could… Read More
As I took her by the hand to school this morning my 6-year old daughter Kiara looked up at Google’s giant Lego project in progress and excitedly reminded me of the latest 3 numbers marking the tops of their latest 3 towers .… “11th floor, ehh … 13, umm .. I can’t see… Read More
In 2012, Nicolas Dessaigne founded Algolia, a company that provides ‘Search as a Service’. Algolia works with companies that build apps. It provides those companies with the building blocks to make their apps easily searchable. Algolia is also a star player in the emergence of the SaaS based API business — along with scale-ups like Twilio (telco infrastructure), Stripe … Read More
“At least I won’t have to buy Windows 95” said Anita upon hearing she had a terminal condition. Anita was my first boss a very long time ago. Way back then I would never have imagined that I’d write an article to help her name be remembered. The death of Roger… Read More
“I’m a mobile gamer. I’m always addicted to one game. You play very differently when you have only one life left ….I had an imaginary competitor. So when I was doing my homework, this imaginary competitor always did better than me. And that was what motivated me.” Mada Seghete, Co-Founder Branch, speaking on 14 Minutes of SaaS…. Read More
Intro Reflections on a business software and services review platform, a blue ocean strategy scale-up that just completed a $30M series B round. The Ballad of G2Crowd Along came a G and a 2. “O”, said Gartner. “Ow”, said Forrester. “Row”, said IDC. “Crow”, said all 3. Then they said… Read More