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Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 7)
Another beneficial attribute of the company was a very specific focus and area of expertise. Maintaining that focus has allowed them to develop into pureplay domain experts, and depth of expertise is always valued. SM: OK, so the focus has been on-demand expense management solutions. That has been the case from 2001 until now, right?
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Lessons for CleanTech Entrepreneurs: Raychem CEO Paul Cook (Part 2)
[This part of the story is written by Paul Cook himself] Late in 1956, I rented a building in Redwood City, bought some used office furniture and arranged to acquire the world’s first commercial electron beam generator from the General Electric Company. I moved in on New Year’s Day 1957. I hired a handful of
Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 6)
Dealing with and properly addressing change is a substantial aspect of the success or failure of companies. Shifting to the on-demand model without any other examples to follow was visionary, but if implemented incorrectly could have been devastating as well. SM: How did you change the channel at this point? You shifted to an on-demand
Lessons for CleanTech Entrepreneurs: Raychem CEO Paul Cook (Part 1)
Paul Cook is a legend. I had the great honor to spend some time with Paul over the last few weeks, understanding the story of how he built Raychem from scratch. Today, Silicon Valley has embarked on yet another evolution in its history, and has been consistently committing huge chunks of capital on a genre
Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 5)
The stock price of Concur dropped before the dot com bust, but while the rest of the industry was faltering, Concur began to climb. SM: You changed course in 2001. Was that due to the market? SS: The change actually happened in 2000, and it was due to our business strategy transition. The market did
Online Dating & Web 3.0 (Part 5)
M&A and VC activity Match.com, a business unit of IAC, acquired edodo in China and Netclub in France in February this year. Match operates 35 country sites in 15 languages. The deal will add 4 million subscribers to Match.com’s already existing 15 million. In January 2007, Meetic acquired DatingDirect, a UK online dating site, for
Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 4)
SM: 1998 you went public with $6M a quarter revenue. What happened after that? SS: The company did well in the public market for a period of time. One of the major changes for us was in April 2000, before the bubble burst. A true story, which gives you some context about us. I was
Online Dating & Web 3.0 (Part 4)
Web 3.0 formula discussion (4C, P, VS) Here, we will take a look at the Web 3.0 aspects of online dating sites. Context As we mentioned earlier, Context for dating sites is becoming increasingly more focused and nichy, as sites look for different avenues to differentiate. Some popular contexts that are emerging are Seniors, Gay,
