Scaling a Pre-IPO Enterprise Software Company: Anaplan CEO Fred Laluyaux (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This story traces the mechanics of scaling an enterprise software company that is close to $100 million in bookings in 2014, and is contemplating an IPO soon. Sramana: Fred, let’s start out this story by learning a bit more about you. What is your backstory? Fred Laluyaux:

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Splunk’s Stock Rising Despite Growing Losses

According to recent reports, worldwide big data hardware and software revenues grew 59% last year to $11.59 billion. The market is projected to be worth $18.1 billion this year, translating to growth of 61% over the year. The market is estimated to grow 31% annually to $47 billion by the year 2017. IBM is the

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: iWeb Technology Solutions, Mumbai, India

iWeb Technology Solutions is the first Deal Radar profile of a series of companies that have been chosen for the NASSCOM Emerge 50 for 2010. NASSCOM is the primary trade body and chamber of commerce of the Indian software and BPO industries, and every year it names 50 startups and growing companies to watch. iWeb

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SAP Needs To Make Some Significant Moves

On October 28, (NYSE:SAP) SAP, the enterprise software leader with annual revenue of €11.57 billion ($16.3 billion), reported a mixed third quarter and disappointing outlook as it faced “a particularly challenging environment in the emerging markets and Japan.” Let’s take a closer look.

Deal Radar 2009: CAST

Today’s Deal Radar focuses on a company that has used an alternative financing path than what we normally see. CAST makes an application intelligence platform that acts as a software assessment engine, going far beneath the business process layers of an application to analyze its architecture. The company claims that its product, CAST, has the

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Deal Radar 2009: MindTouch

This week, Deal Radar moves away from social media gaming and back to open source, this time with a focus on enterprise collaboration and service-oriented architecture, an area essential to the development of new ways of delivering software. MindTouch Deki, the flagship product of San Diego-based MindTouch, is an open source enterprise collaboration and community

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Deal Radar 2008: Zyrion

Continuing the trend of technology democratization, Zyrion provides mid-market enterprises with business service management (BSM) and IT infrastructure monitoring software. Their flagship BSM product, Traverse, is based on technology that is being used by large enterprises worldwide.

Deal Radar 2008: Operational Memory LLC,Raleigh, North Calorina

This week’s Deal Radar series begins with coverage of Operational Memory LLC, which launched its first solution, a social networking application for enterprises, in September 2008. Founded in 2005 by two “soccer dads” who got to know each other and their areas of expertise over several seasons of girls’ soccer, the SaaS company is based

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