by Robert Solomon | Dec 16, 2014 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking
Being from Chicago, and having visited the NYSE and NASDAQ, I knew that commodities markets, currency markets, and equities markets had made a fairly rapid transition to electronic trading over the past 15 plus years. On the other hand, I had never really thought...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 11, 2014 | B2B Software, Farming, Industry Cloud
The New York Times recently ran a great article entitled “Working the Land and the Data”. The article highlights how important the cloud, big data, and software generally is becoming to the cultivation of massive crops such as soybeans and corn. If you...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 9, 2014 | B2B Software, Travel, Valuation
In case you did not see it on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal ran an article noting that 30 companies had gone public in 2014 at valuations less than their last private round. The Journal mentioned this fate was likely to befall Hortonworks and New Relic, two more...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 5, 2014 | B2B Software, Travel, Vertical Cloud
In mid-September, I created two stock indices comprising cloud B2B Commerce software companies. (I used a cool company called Motif Investing.) One of the indices tracks 30 stocks that engage in B2B commerce generally (B2B E-Commerce) and the other one comprises 18...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 2, 2014 | B2B Software, Enterprise Software
A while back I posted a piece (here) about the fairly common practice among inside sales people on LinkedIn of using pictures of attractive, young women to entice folks like me to connect my network to theirs. (That wording sounded worse than it was supposed to.)...
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