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Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 7th

Here Steve takes us down the early history of Concur. He illustrates where the idea came from, and how the company came into being. SM: What did the company do in the beginning? SS: We have always done the same thing. We have always been focused on automating the expense reporting process. The way the

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Enterprise 3.0 Event

Posted on Sunday, Aug 5th

If you want to come hang-out with me on August 15th, and kick around the Enterprise 3.0 concepts, register for this MIT Club of Northern California event at Cooley Godward. Also, if you have an exciting Enterprise 3.0 concept, and email me in advance, I will work you into the discussion. If you come, for

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 8)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 24th

SM: Describe some of your team building experiences. Is your management team complete now? KR: Finding the right executive team members can be a nerve-wracking experience. You are essentially giving a huge amount of responsibility to a person who in many cases you’ve only known for a few weeks during the interview process. A key

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 7)

Posted on Monday, Jul 23rd

SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Customers? Users? Any other metrics you track? KR: We launched our service in Q2 of this year, and the response has been fantastic. We’ve already signed up our first set of paying customers, which is a great milestone for us. Initially, our primary goals are

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Jul 21st

SM: Describe the value proposition of LucidEra, including differentiation versus the rest of the market. KR: LucidEra combines sales and financial data to give users at small-to-mid sized businesses powerful insight into the effectiveness of their entire sales operations process (including quotas, pipeline, revenues, and expenses). We firmly believe that just like the everyday consumer

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 19th

SM. Where did you get the idea for LucidEra? What is your domain experience in the Enterprise 3.0 business? KR: The idea developed in two stages. First, when I ran my Business Intelligence consulting company many years, it became obvious that while Business Intelligence solutions were common in large enterprises, they were rare in small

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Stocks Surfing Software’s Next Wave

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 17th

My debut column on Jim Cramer’s RealMoney launched yesterday: :: If you like to invest in technology, it pays to understand the trends and the market dynamics. And one of the more compelling trends in the software industry is the evolution from licensed software to on-demand software, otherwise known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It’s hosted software

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 17th

We have had lots of discussions about Enterprise 3.0. In this interview, I will be speaking with Ken Rudin, CEO of Lucidera, a young company attempting to become a leader in the massive Business Intelligence market by applying Enterprise 3.0 principles. Readers, note that Ken is an experienced serial entrepreneur, and you will learn much

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